Clipping in popular music

re: Clipping in popular music

ColinA — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:20:37 GMT

Third link (prorec.com) appears dead. I'm getting timeouts.

I like the visual, though. :)

re: Clipping in popular music

Mendelt Siebenga — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:54:45 GMT

Even recordings that don't suffer from clipping are affected negatively by the desire to produce louder records.

In the mastering process audio engineers generally use dynamic compression to process the music. Louder parts of the music are autmatically reduced in volume so that the whole can be amplified more without sounding nasty. Superficially this makes the music sound "better" because louder is better. But tests have shown that music processed this way is more fatiguing to listen to for long and will sound less dynamic.

Radio and television stations generally use the same techniques to mask differences in volume of the music they play. So even "good" recordings will sound less dynamic on the radio.

re: Clipping in popular music

Hob Gadling — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:17:22 GMT

Any chance then of implementing ReplayGain support in Windows Media Player etc.?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replaygain

Youtube on the Loudness War

The Audio Fool — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:41:45 GMT

Larry pointed me to a really cool video that graphically and audibly demonstrates the effect of the Loudness

re: Clipping in popular music

Brandon P — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:28:19 GMT

Isn't it ironic that as we moved to a format with much greater dynamic range (from vinyl to CD), we compressed the dynamic range even further.

It's also sad.

BUT! There is hope! You can still enjoy that great classic rock/pop/jazz/etc DYNAMIC sound.

Just pick up a new turntable and some old vinyl.

I have a dream that one day, all DSP programmers and studio mixers, will all listen to the results of their work on nice, mid-to-high end stereos, and try to preserve that great analog sound as it was first played.

I LOVE YOU AUDIO! ROCK ON!

Metallica's Death Magnetic Poorly Mastered

Steve Rowe's Blog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:28:28 GMT

Metallica's new CD, Death Magnetic, is pretty good.  Certainly it is better than St. Anger although