[BC] Re: The death of the CD....

[Kevin Tekel]

Rich Wood wrote:
> I guess whoever said this never heard anything produced by
> Phil Spector or Motown.

The big difference is that gun-happy Phil's "Wall of Sound" was achieved
mostly through analog tape saturation and complex layering of instruments
and vocals, which yields a very dense but yet still quite detailed sound,
especially in the stereo mixes (which purists hate, but that's a whole
different story) where it sounds like the lead singers are right up in
front of you and the band is playing in a room down the hall.

That's a completely different methodology than potting up each instrument
and vocal in the band up to "11" and then taking the already-smashed rough
mix and giving it to a mastering engineer who then proceeds to "steamroll"
the audio to such an extent that every single peak is crunched and clipped
to within a millimeter of its life.  (Oh, and don't forget the Auto-Tune!)

It's a say day that even "Go All The Way" has more dynamic range and more
distinct peak transients than anything that gets on the Billboard charts
these days.  Even artists whose style is soft and sultry, like Norah Jones
and Michael Bublé, suffer from overly aggressive mastering on their music.



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