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> --- In 01v96@yahoogroups.com, "Ronny Morris" <romo1@t...> wrote:No problemo Dan. I didn't get this post in my e-mail, same fucked up
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\n> > It's perfectly ok, for folks to discuss anything that they want
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\n> Ronny,
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\n> Thanks for the invite to wander a little OT. Here's a question for
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> Since you're among the gallant souls fighting to reduce theloudness
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> wars in ye olde record industry, do you think any headway is beingYes and no, headway is being made with the mastering engineers and
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> Last night, while driving to Santo Valentino Supper, we wereWell -
\n> listening to the latest offering by Phil Collins. I'd heard him do
\n> his tune - "Can't Stop Loving You' on the toob some time back.
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> as you can imagine, the CD release is compressed flatter than anto
\n> octagenarian's rear end. I cranked the volume up, and my wife
\n> sez, "Gee. I didn't know you liked this tune!"
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\n> I told her the tune was a good commercial effort, but it was the
\n> compression I was wallowing in. She asked me what I was talking
\n> about. So I tried to 'splen the deal about ultracompression added
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> the FM/radio/Orban/Nuclear/warhead phenomenon. As her eyes glazedslammed
\n> over, I cranked the station even louder - amazed at how truly
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> that CD sounded on the auto stereo. I know the infamous AerosmithCollins'
\n> album was a hallmark of digital compression-X-treme - but Mr
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> offering was practically off the dial.Hypercompression as you know can actually lower the gain on a radio
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> So - whaddya think? Is it a lost cause? Is it too late to turn backIt's getting better on the mastering end, but like I mentioned mix
\n> the tides of big phat compressed waves? Can it get any worse? Or
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> Just checking in -I think that it's going to get worse before it gets better. But when
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> Dan G>