Saturday, June 5, 2010

Mastering, Compression, and Loudness

As we press on through the mixing and mastering for for High Desert Mystery, we have to wrestle with the question of how much compression is OK.  This decision is critical to the end result in terms of the "listening experience."  Most new CDs are way overcompressed.  But the flip side is that without much compression, the end result just doesn't sound like a real "record."

What Happened to Dynamic Range?

I think we should do this.  And maybe this.

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