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Loudness war - Wikipedia
By the early 2000s, the loudness war had become fairly widespread, especially with some remastered re-releases and greatest hits collections of older music. In 2008, loud mastering practices received mainstream media attention with the …
The Loudness War: Who won and who lost? - SoundGuys
Jun 17, 2021 · Ever wondered why some songs are so much louder than others? Let's dig into the Loudness War: how it started, and how it ended.
The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse - NPR
Dec 31, 2009 · A recording engineer discusses "the loudness wars," and a psychology professor explains why the ubiquity of MP3s has changed what we hear.
The Ultimate Guide to the Loudness War - Hyperbits
In this post, we are going to dig deep into the common misunderstandings of the loudness war. So, why is the loudness war over? Well, all the streaming platforms have individually decided to match the loudness of the music on their platform to one singular loudness level.
What Is 'The Loudness War' and Did It End? | Ultimate Guitar
Nov 20, 2021 · And yet, despite the uproar caused by the sound quality of "Death Magnetic", "The Loudness War" continued well into the 2010s, with Black Sabbath's final album "13" being one of its most recent...
How the ‘Loudness Wars’ Made Music Sound Worse (And What …
Mar 25, 2023 · 2008’s Death Magnetic is the most well known example of what the loudness war has done to music. The album was so hopelessly over-compressed and limited that it just sounded terrible. Critics and the average consumer alike recognized how poor the sound quality was. In some sense, Metallica and Rick Rubin won the war.
'Dynamic Range' & The Loudness War - Sound On Sound
We all know music is getting louder. But is it less dynamic? Our ground-breaking research proves beyond any doubt that the answer is no — and that popular beliefs about the 'loudness war' need a radical rethink.
The Loudness War Analyzed - Music Machinery
Mar 24, 2009 · First, lets start with a loudness plot of Dave Brubeck’s Take Five. There’s a loudness range of -33 to about -15 dBs – a range of about 18 dBs. Now take a look at a track from the new Metallica album. Here we see a dB range of from about -3 dB to about -6 dB – for a range of about 3 dB. The difference is rather striking.
The Loudness Wars: Is Music's Noisy Arms Race Over?
Jul 21, 2011 · High-volume sound engineering may finally be falling out of fashion. The loudest album of 2010 was almost certainly Sleigh Bells' acclaimed Treats, a collection of songs with the volume and...