Oh Hey There

“The final world-shattering salvo of the Loudness War”: Here’s the waveform of the first minute of Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”.

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   dug up from a few weeks ago and reblogged for dylan.

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   Excellent bringing this up, and Owen of course provided an excellent citation for this.

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8. car-vs-semi reblogged this from fuckyeahemo and added:

   The biggest failure of this is that digital clipping doesn’t create a “good” kind of distortion like analog recording...

9. perpetualweirdo reblogged this from abloodymess and added:

   that song hurts.

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11. abloodymess reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:

    Bob Weston has a great bit about the whole loudness wars up on his mastering company’s website.

12. fuckyeahemo reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:

    Crush, expand, crush, expand; louder, louder, louder; destruction, lifeless It destroys me

13. hardcorefornerds reblogged this from fleetfootedfox and added:

    but clipping (or, at least, serious deterioration of sound quality) is already an effect of distortion, when you listen...

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    Ohmygod. It’s clipping-as-distortion-effect.

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