Dags
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(sound of my $0.02 hitting the table)
For what its worth, I have been noticing more and more that music that has been limited to make it as loud as possible for radio (the waveform usually looks like a huge square wave) is the most tiresome to listen to for any length of time. The lack of dynamics is very fatiguing.
If your track gets taken to a mastering house for release alongside other tunes, the engineer will usually prefer having plenty of dynamics to work with as he/she can bring all tracks up to a standard 'perceived' volume so they play well together on the album.
(And they have some of the most amazing toys to play with too!)
If the track is already squashed to buggery then they have nowhere to go.
I guess the goal (as has already been stated) is to find a happy trade-off between perceived loudness and dynamic content. If you can hear the compression/limiting kicking in, its probably being squashed too much.
Have fun experimenting!!
Dags
Here's an interesting bit of info I found after posting
The Loudness War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
For what its worth, I have been noticing more and more that music that has been limited to make it as loud as possible for radio (the waveform usually looks like a huge square wave) is the most tiresome to listen to for any length of time. The lack of dynamics is very fatiguing.
If your track gets taken to a mastering house for release alongside other tunes, the engineer will usually prefer having plenty of dynamics to work with as he/she can bring all tracks up to a standard 'perceived' volume so they play well together on the album.
(And they have some of the most amazing toys to play with too!)
If the track is already squashed to buggery then they have nowhere to go.
I guess the goal (as has already been stated) is to find a happy trade-off between perceived loudness and dynamic content. If you can hear the compression/limiting kicking in, its probably being squashed too much.
Have fun experimenting!!
Dags
Here's an interesting bit of info I found after posting
The Loudness War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
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