Monday, August 25, 2008

Squashing the life out of music

Yes, yes, I'm not the first to harp on about this subject but here's my 10 cents worth.

Music masters are by and large over compressed. Well, over limited I should say.
For some reason we have all been conned into thinking that if it's loud then it must be good.
Question, how many of you have heard really good mixes played loud in a studio, then listened to the "over squashed" master on the same system?

I believe those that have will agree that you lose something important when you chase insane levels for release. Depth, clarity and seperation ALL suffer.

Why do we do it? Biggest dick syndrome I suspect. It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it that counts !!!

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