tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9867328.post115978042751763655..comments2022-05-05T11:33:38.062-04:00Comments on Diary of Musical Thoughts: Compression TriumphsBarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08766828980324641356noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9867328.post-1163277365397749772006-11-11T15:36:00.000-05:002006-11-11T15:36:00.000-05:00I'm send you a track from the remastered Music for...I'm send you a track from the remastered Music for the Masses to your gmail. <BR/><BR/>Listen to it and tell me if it sounds fucked to you.Amithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117892051642061765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9867328.post-1163185423871684122006-11-10T14:03:00.000-05:002006-11-10T14:03:00.000-05:00Music for the Masses really needed to be remastere...Music for the Masses really needed to be remastered though, but I haven't heard the new version yet.Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08766828980324641356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9867328.post-1163185370607384462006-11-10T14:02:00.000-05:002006-11-10T14:02:00.000-05:00If you read the articles the problem with the 'vol...<I>If you read the articles the problem with the 'volume wars' is not the compression, but the compression and subsequen loud recording with clippling that is the problem.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, I know this -- it's the need/want to make tracks sound loud that leads to overcompression, not the other way around. My general point here was some tracks sound really great in spite of all this compression.Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08766828980324641356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9867328.post-1163140961276406432006-11-10T01:42:00.000-05:002006-11-10T01:42:00.000-05:00If you read the articles the problem with the 'vol...If you read the articles the problem with the 'volume wars' is not the compression, but the compression and subsequen loud recording with clippling that is the problem.<BR/><BR/>What compression does is make soft sounds louder, and stuff that's compressed sounds more "punchy", or "booming".<BR/><BR/>I don't think you can definitively say something sounds compresed, because it's a relative thing. Amithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117892051642061765noreply@blogger.com