From: Michael C. <ch...@mc...> - 2009-08-31 12:06:59
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On Saturday 29 August 2009 5:30 pm, Fmiser wrote: > > I'd read somewhere that modern recordings are now extremely > > compressed because audio engineers assume people are listening > > with headphones. > > Much of current pop music is very compressed. Partly for iPod > listening - but also so it sound loud compared to the song > played before and after it. Radio play is still a big factor in > the economics of pop music. And humans almost always choose the > perceptively louder song as sounding "better". "The Insane Increase ..." graphic (four vertical red bars) at <http://www.digido.com/level-practices-part2-includes-the-k-system.html> might be of interest. MC |