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The Death of High Fidelity
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This article is pretty interesting. It talks about how producers are mastering for mp3, and shitty computer speakers. Using compression to make things sound louder on ipods, and the loss of detail.
It kind of makes me sad.
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12/29/07
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madeofoak
this shit has been depressing me for a long time. not that i don't love compression, but damn. mixing for computer speakers blows.
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room
because commercially it suites
this will change within 3 years
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Spark
On one hand.. I don't like squishing the fuck out of everything.. but on the other hand.. I want people to be able to hear my music along side pop music.
What to do. JDG save us!!
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monty
loud or quiet the artic monkeys are still shit.
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astroid
we will reach a magical threshold where all the music will create a fight or flight response in us. there will be one song that's so squished and noisy, so grating, that people will spontaneously pick up the object making the noise and kill the nearest person. they will pick up cars and ipods.
i call this the jamie lynn spears effect.
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crazyshadow
sad sad im happy that lofi is making a step forward anyway with my type of music dont mater much if its hi or lo fi cause well noise is noise no mather lool
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jdg
i dont master anything for any big labels..
sometimes i get lucky and master somethign that gets popular on the indy scene.
but, i have NEVER been asked to master for computer speakers, earbuds/ipods/etc.
and lately (past yr) , everyone wants the tracks not so loud and compressed.
so, everywhere else besides in the "commercial" market, IME, we have fidelity.
also, the more and more projects i get, the more and more ppl are actually interested in dynamics, quality of sound, etc.
yet again, this is only tru for my small little world, i have no idea wtf world the rolling stoners live in.
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khoral
Alas, this is being said over and over...
I know that it bothers me a bit that when I play my tracks alongside a commercial CD that they can't match the "standard loudness"
But then again, I really really hate the over-compressed sound
My music don't hit the FM airwaves, so I'm not really fighting for survival in the jungle of loud, and if you want my music to be loud, well, you crank up your stereo
But I think jdg's right, there's still a place for good mastering
I mean that overrall I'm only annoyed by over-compressed music when I'm in a shop or a bar, and the mainstream/alternative junk they play, it's just not what I buy at home, and what I do buy isn't over-compressed
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khoral
"You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison.", Butch Vig
Gee, how dumb is that
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khoral
One last quote for the road
"But to get the content to people, you have to play by their rules."
— Matt Serletic, Matchbox Twenty and Collective Soul producer and former chief executive, Virgin Records
I think that's a pretty good definition for D.E.C.A.D.E.N.C.E.
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5l4
the weird thing is, every year contemporary dance music gets farther and farther from this place. i swear ever year the tracks are quieter and less aggressive in their EQ's, and a lot of indie labels have been working on this too.
and websites like beatport are distributing really nice sounding mp3's (even if they are mp3). so not all hope is lost!
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n9
i think this article is dumb at the base level. mastering for mp3 doesn't mean limiting the shit out of everything. high bitrate compressed audio has pretty ok dynamic range, but has potentially screwed up high frequencies. the lack of dynamic range in commercial recording has nothing at all to do with compression. L3ing the crap out of everything has nothing to do with the technology, everything to do with fear.
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atum
i remember playing records through the mono speaker built into the player's case. sounded cool my favorites were: atom heart mother,boots randolph,iron butterfly, and bootsy
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jdg
one more thing i want to add, electronic music, especially some aggressive styles, sound great uber compressed and smasshed.
so, for most of us, that article does not apply... we have our own ideas of sound.
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n9
lol. jdg: you can say that again! i think that my sound is made from all the misfits from the Land of Misfit sounds. Viva la differance!
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