[BC] Could our concept of audio be all wrong?

[JIM GRAHAM]

It mentions the artist asking the mastering engineer to make it loud.  And that's what I don't understand.  It has SO much limiting, etc., that we don't HEAR the vocalist and we don't HEAR the instruments and we don't HEAR the percussion.  We HEAR ear-ringing noise!  It's like taking your steak, potato, bread, drink, salad, everything and throwing it into a food processor then trying to eat it.  Yuk!

Jim Graham

jgprods at bellsouth.net

My recording friends are incredibly frustrated.