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

[Robert Orban]

At 09:50 AM 3/16/2009, you wrote:
>My recording friends are incredibly frustrated. They spend weeks 
>recording and mixing an album only to have the performers tell the 
>mastering engineer they want the CD as loud (compressed, 
>pre-emphasized, de-emphasized, squashed, smashed and mashed) as 
>possible. They hear another band's CD and want to be just as loud. 
>When I say loud I mean apparent loudness. The kind that makes an 
>Adobe Audition waveform one big splotch of green.

And of course CD sales are increasing dramatically as a result of 
this processing.......
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