Nowdays,we compress the shit out of everything

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Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

heres a nice artical about the over use of compression in today's industry-
everybody wants to be loud,who will the loudest?

http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_big_squeeze/

some wise words from bob catz,the mastering guru included :P

yup, there was a site loudnessrace.net but it seems to have dissapeared and there is this one as well http://www.airwindows.com/analysis/Dynamics.html

All seems a bit silly. If I want a cd louder i'll turn the volume up. Hell, I use replay gain on my mp3s so that the loudness of a track is compensated for. Utter madness compressing the fuck out of tracks so they are more "competitive".