Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate

[Christopher Stamper]

Right, Cory. Compress is waaayyy overused.

Though I could justify just a little compression... :-)

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Dave Ricketzz wrote:
> > Compressors can be quite musical;  they make a performance easier to
> hear in many cases.  Without a compressor/limiter your RMS is quite low
> vs peaks and your SNR suffers.  Part of the mastering process is to
> judiciously apply electronic magic here and there.  Are you saying this
> person didn't equalize?
>
> "judiciously" isn't whats happening in the industry unfortunately. The
> whole "brickwall" mastering thing has made me sick of modern pop music
> and leery of re-masters of old albums. I can turn up the volume myself.
>
> Theres no reason to kill dynamic range so song A sounds as loud as song B.
>
> I'm just a touch sensitive about compression. ;)
>
> -Cory
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