marley carroll » audio compression http://marleycarroll.com/blog marley carroll + melanaster records Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:26:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ephemera : NPR on the Loudness Wars http://marleycarroll.com/blog/music/ephemera-npr-on-the-loudness-wars.html http://marleycarroll.com/blog/music/ephemera-npr-on-the-loudness-wars.html#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:10:20 +0000 marley http://marleycarroll.com/blog/?p=1172 Continue reading →]]> NPR has done a great job of summarizing the loudness wars in this article.  The infographic [.pdf] is beautiful, even if it documents the degradation of audio quality over the last thirty years.

The backlash against excessive compression and loudness has already begun (see: fans petition remastering of Metallica’s Death Magnetic).  Hopefully in time we can bring back some dynamics to recorded music.

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