More and more these days, Mastering engineers are forced screw up good
originals so that it can be heard o n radio etc... You can hear just
about every recording pumping before you hear a note. Weare currently
victims of golden ear instructions from the top..
Here is the test everybody. Get out a Major label CD and it vinyl
brother. You will listen to the vinyl twice pops scratches and all
before the CD and will even physically feel better..
Fashion in technology like Psycho-cosmetology is just plain wrong.
gw
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 05:42 PM, gooboworks wrote:
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Les Mizzell" <lesmizz@s...> wrote:
>>
>> :: What really annoys me is the routine over-application of
>> :: levelling soft- or hardware to EVERY DAMN CD I'VE BOUGHT
>> :: FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS AT LEAST. I mean "dynamic" does not
>> :: necessarily mean everything at the same level, right?
>>
>> I do a LOT of music editing for many local and regional dance
> companies, so
>> I get to look at the waveform displays on a lot of CDs. There are
> many that
>> still have a pretty good dynamic range - the "Cirque du Soleil"
> music for
>> example. Take something like Tori Amos though - sheesh! It's a solid
>> perfectly smooth thick black line! You're hard pressed to even see
> bass drum
>> or snare hits in the display without scanning back and forth
> through the
>> waveform to hear where it is....
>>
>> Jezz....
>
>
> Maybe this is causing my aural fatigue. I will put on a CD, and
> after a bit, I will just stop it much to my relief. Now, I am not
> talking any kind of grinding, head-splitting, noise puke. It is any
> number of regular CD's. It is weird, and the best way to describe
> it is "my ears get tired". Does not happen on all CD's, does not
> happen with live music, does not happen with TV (lo-fi) music.
> There seems to be a level of subtle boringness I cannot clearly
> identify. When I stop the CD it goes away, and I am glad stopped
> the music.
>
> This did not happen with old analog vinyl records. This could also
> be natural aging going on, however if that was the case all music
> would sound like this.
>
> Well for now, I am going with the smoothing theory. I guess it is
> like removing all the bright colors from a painting, or the sparkly
> spices from food. The end result is bland and dull.
>
> Andy
>
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