▼Compression, the loudness war, & Jamendo
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I've been downloading the occasional album from Jamendo; and from what I've seen so far it's amazing what indie artists can produce.
One thing I've noticed, though, is that the hard rock/metal bands tend to compress the hell out of the dynamic range of their music until it becomes almost unlistenable. I mean, yeah, there is the whole loudness war thing, and many of the major labels are doing it, but that doesn't mean that indie bands have to follow suit. In fact, a lot of this stuff is worse than the compression the major labels are pumping out 'cause they aren't filtering the distortion. Is this intentional, or just poor recording/mastering technique? -
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CommentAuthorJesse Spillane
- CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
Its a shame that anyone partakes in the loudness war. In pretty much all of the cases, I'd say its intentional and poor technique. Mainstream folks included. -
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One reason I don't listen to mainstream music much anymore. I need adventure in my music and nothing gives that sense of adventure more than loud and soft passages. Everything is one dynamic so that it won't jump out and scare people. Metal would gain *so much* if someone would start doing this, because when the heavy part hits, and it's even 3 db louder than the previous passage, it's going to hit with far more power than anyone engaging in the loudness war. It's one of the things that makes, say, King Crimson great because they've always done this.
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It's just a racing, not war :)
So many audio mastering technics and lessons on the net for different kind of music but ppl start use and implement the technics immediately what they found.
A hardware or software just a tool but some of us give up the drive and put autopilot on.
Offtopic :)
I see on the discovery (not jamendo yet) channel about the new computer based warmachines that can be strike without by a human control.
Just select from the preset list then follow the directives and autostrike the selected targets.
So new soldiers and pilots in the future must learning just only the preset list to go into acrtion. -
I don't master things and they sound good to me.
Apart from that, I use software that evens out the volume of the songs (ReplayGain), so... very compressed things will sound as loud as not compressed, but will sound worse.
Musicians have to be aware of that. Just give it time.
Offtopic for Oneak:
The next step is to teach computers to act upon the other computers withe the presets and send robots to war.
The other step is just running it in simulation mode and not sending the robots.
The next step is just tossing a coin.
The last step is when the coin gets lost.
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CommentAuthorofficernarc
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
in my defense, my equipment is total shit and i don't know what the fuck i'm doing. -
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yep!
We don't compress audio on Jamendo, it's encoded as-is from the audio files the artists upload. we just include replay gain tags in the files but without altering the actual audio.
There's one exception to that, for the radios: it's very hard to produce good radios without compressing a bit between tracks from so many different artists on jamendo.
what we might do is process loundness stats on all our tracks and make that accessible in a dump for you guys to process and draw interesting conclusions ;-)
cheers!
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