September 28, 2006
DOS AND DOS MAS
Alex and Jane extend the circle of compression.
I have politely asked engineers to compress entire records I’ve played on; I’ve barked at engineers who were using compression when committing my signal to tape; I’ve gone giddy listening to modern pop records squashed beyond belief; I’ve wearily turned off satellite radio after three songs because there was no room for me.
Flattening and torquing the dynamic range is an effect, like every other in a field of all artificial, reproductive effects. Knowing this might lead A&R heads and their employees to decrease its usage, but I doubt we will see anything other than market splits—quiet uncompressed records here, pop records here—in the near future.
Posted by Sasha at September 28, 2006 11:51 PM | TrackBack