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You've already made up your mind, or else you would at least be entertaining the idea of spending $400 on an amp. So just get Guitar Rig. Seems pointless to argue between buying new software Vs an amp you already own and don't like.

Almost the entire reason I'm against loudenation is because squashed music can not kick. Loud is obviously not the problem. I have a volume knob and I prefer loud anyway. So no. They have no idea what "kickin" is.

Lay your logic out for me. Why loudenate? Give me logic, not "it might be disappointing to some people if you don't" or "everybody does it". Show me logically the argument for something that you know causes people to tune out and turns the sound quality to shit.

What does that have to do with what I wrote? I wrote that it is foolish to insist that most people have the ability to identify and derive enjoyment from one specific element of sound and none of the others.

I'm sorry you have so much insecurity about your abilities.

So what is it? They do care about sound or they don't care about sound? If they notice a difference in volume and that difference affects their enjoyment one way or another, then that is one aspect of sound that they care about. So we firmly establish that sound is on the listener's radar...

If they don't care, then by definition THEY DON'T CARE! So they won't miss it if it's not there. So you don't have to do it. The insanity... Loudenation is fine because the masses don't give a rat's ass about any aspect of sound. Go ahead and damage it all you want! But don't even...

I'm the idiot, but you're the one doing something to your own music that you know is detrimental. Sure. Look, it is true that some people might not buy your song because it is not loudenated. It is also true that some people might not buy your song because it is loudenated. Some people...

Look, I'm sorry you're that insecure about your songs. If you do happen to be standing there, the only explanation you need to offer is "shut up and listen". Let's list the common reasons I've heard here and elsewhere about why excessive damaging soul-sucking loudenation is necessary...

No you are dead-on. I mean, just about everything you said is incorrect, but it brilliantly illustrates the insecurity and "frightened rabbit" mentality that keeps this crap alive. So in that sense you really nailed the thought process. Overheard while watching TV at a commoner's house...

*sigh* No, no. We can't keep this lie up any longer about how regular people could fit music into their daily lives back in the day. So I might as well tell the true story about how bands from decades past made all of those millions of dollars: William R. Moneyworth IV - Steven, old boy! So...

I'm talking about when you are the producer, not mastering for somebody else.

The easy solution to that is to not give a damn whether or not anybody thinks you did something wrong. When people say the loudness war is a dick measuring contest based mostly on insecurity, this is what they're talking about. Grow some balls and release exactly what you want to release.

I wouldn't say it's a dead concept, but it is obvious that it is no longer #1 by a large margin. But when you're sitting down with 40-60 minutes devoted to nothing but listening, you just can't beat an album. I know the concept of sitting and listening is itself laughably rare, but as long as...

This is the heart of the misunderstanding. Almost everybody loves high volume. Many of the warriors on the front line of the "stop loudness" campaign love high volume. I love high volume. But loudness on the disc is not anything like loudness in real life. That it has the same name is very...

Man, it varies depending on the song. But a generic starting point is drums panned according to the image in the overheads, bass n' vox center, one guitar hard right and the other hard left.

Replay gain is easy to use. Ipods have something similar built right in. Nobody has to loudenate for playlists.

That only holds true for actual sound reaching our ears, not data on a disc. No matter how "loud" the disc is, the listener wants to hear it at level "X". So he turns the knob until his ears tell him it is at level "X". The resulting sound in the room (or headphones) is the same whether or...

Hell no. Big-ass Klipsch mid-fields.

This whole argument is retarded anyway because there is nothing stopping every artist in the world from offering both a good and a stupid version for download. Now if somebody would tell that to every artist in the world this nightmare might end.