From: Pascal G. <evi...@gm...> - 2009-08-31 13:57:42
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Michael Chapman <ch...@mc...>wrote: > 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. > Hmm... your link throws a 404 on me... -Pascal -- Homepage (http://organact.mine.nu) Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) LACIME: École de technologie supérieure (http://lacime.etsmtl.ca) |