Metallica - A Silver Lining on the Loudness Cloud?
With the release of Metallica’s new album, “Death
Magenetic,” an unprecedented backlash from fans and
listeners have cast a new spotlight on the “Loudness
Wars.” And this might be just what the industry
needs...
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Loudness War 'In Real Life' - Anecdotal Evidence
A lot of people use the excuse “Well, I want my tracks
to sound as loud as...” -- which is one thing. Others
use the excuse “Well, a lot of people are listening in
cars and on trains with iPods and such and I want
everything to be heard...”
Anyone who’s ever actually listened has another story...
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Anyone who’s ever actually listened has another story...
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Calibrating Your Monitoring Chain
February 17, 2008 - 00:49 Filed in: Articles
You don't know how loud you are unless you know how
loud you should be at a set level. This is something a
lot of people forget to do for some reason... If you
don't have your monitors reasonably well-calibrated,
you might as well be shooting at a moving target.
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Why Aren't My Mixes 'Loud' Like Commercial CD's?
More accurately, the question you should be asking
yourself is "Why don't my recordings have the
potential to be as loud as commercial CD's?"
(This is an incomplete post - a partial post I posted on an audio forum - to be updated soon)
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(This is an incomplete post - a partial post I posted on an audio forum - to be updated soon)
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Basic Room Setup for Dummies
January 27, 2008 - 20:17 Filed in: Articles
If you can't trust your room, the greatest monitors in
the world are worth a bowl of warm sinus fluid.
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Proper Audio Recording Levels
You're probably tracking too hot. Here's why...
(This is a rough draft and will be updated soon)
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(This is a rough draft and will be updated soon)
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Mastering the Mixdown
REMEMBER: MIXDOWN IS CRUCIAL in more ways than one. A
good mastering session can go very well, or very poorly
depending on what happens during mixdown. Much of this
is common sense, yet much of it isn't common sense
until you've experienced the fallout a few times...
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Mastering - By Mail?
January 11, 2008 - 13:48 Filed in: Articles
Generally speaking, MASSIVE Mastering isn’t a “master
by mail” place. Although admittedly, probably 75% of
all sessions here are unattended. So, it’s worth
addressing that we (and basically every other mastering
facility) can act as a “master by mail” facility.
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