You could try Audacity as it's free... But it's still the
same waveform... the sharp transients just do down.
Quote:
Originally Posted by joethelion
you really don't notice it when you're just listening to Dubno, or hell - even other electronic albums from that time period, but when you compare the 'classics' to more contemporary stuff... it's a bit of a difference
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Yeah, that's what record producers usually want to archieve. They
intentionally sacrifice sound quality in exchange for more loudness, which makes the recording
seem better. And without loudness correction it
will sound better than the quieter one.
But that's where RG comes into play...
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6...bar2000cs0.png
When I play old, well mastered albums like STITI, the volume stays just about the same. But when I play newer stuff, the volume gets
lowered to match the RG reference level.
The waveform from the example above looks like this:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7...parisonlf5.png
STITI makes use of nearly all the available dynamic range. But BS 2003 and AHDO, after their volume got lowered, are wasting much headroom.
This all becomes even more depressing looking at a closeup on a single kick from Little Speaker:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...speakervn1.png
While limiting has been applied to Little Speaker, the transients from the kicks have been
cut off. I can only guess where they were in the original but I marked it in red.
Fortunately, though, most modern limiters don't introduce clipping or distortion anymore. But sharp attacks in the sound
will be damaged or buried in the mix. And that sounds like this:
http://www.mediafire.com/?l2im4xf9y7m
This is the comparison between the original and a compressed Rowla I posted earlier.