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Hugh Pickens writes "Mike Barthel reports on a technique called brick-wall limiting, where songs are engineered to seem louder by bringing the quiet parts to the same level as the loud parts and pushing the volume level of the entire song to the highest point possible. 'Because of the need to stand ...
Wouldn't that be something? A day where I bought a CD and it didn't clip because some asshat in a booth thought to crank the gain too much.
If I understand this stuff right I am kind of surprised that in the Atlantic article he didn't mention that if you listen to this stuff on a decent system that it sounds like utter crap. You have to be listening in the car or on your ipod for it to sound ok.
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