prorec article

fongaboo wrote on 9/16/2002, 12:49 AM

Check out this article on loud mastering:

http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C

Scroll down to the first waveform comparison diagram. Is it me, or is that conspicuously Vegas?

Comments

Former user wrote on 9/16/2002, 9:59 AM

That is Vegas - Rip has been known to "Vegas" from time to time. Better yet is the meat of that article. What a shame to have your tunage wrecked by some loser behind the board. Rush has been at this a long time and I can't believe that they would not be able to hear the mess that was made of their recording.

Cheers,

Cuzin B

jues wrote on 9/16/2002, 10:35 AM

I couldn't agree more - this whole process of "over-limiting" is mearly destroying audio - CD's can only take so much bandwidth, what is the point of using it all leaving no space for dynamic range?

Louder is not better - oh and for the record I always normalise any CD ready recordings to -0.3dB

colinu wrote on 9/18/2002, 2:18 PM

I found this article (and thread) very interesting. I had noticed many times that remastered did not mean "more faithful to the master tapes". It meant that someone other than the original engineer got to play with the tapes: re-eq this, overuse NoNoise here and there, then give it the dynamic range of an FM broadcast. It also mean that a CD that was once in the budget line, could be repriced upwards because of this tinkering.

My paranoid mind says that these recordings will all be released again in a couple of years in one of the new High Definition audio formats (SACD or DVD-A or whatever). And that like lemmings, we will all rush out to buy these updates to rediscover what was lost in these current transfers.

Videophiles can also look forward to this: they'll be buying another copy of the Sopranos in a couple of years, when it is released in a High Definition format.