Will the loudness war ever end? How can I escape it?
...don't listen to any music made after 1999? Not missing much anyway
>guise i can totally hear it new music is louder !!! i was truly born in le wrong generation, DAE le placebo ??
i bet you also download music in flac. get a life and get laid loser
>>64776484
le wrong generation
>>64776500
>loudness wars means things are louder in volume
you have clearly have no knowledge of the topic
Louder and more compressed does not equal a lack of perceived dynamic ranger
>>64776507
Great post.
>>64776529
maybe but i have sex frequently can you say the same about yourself i dont think so lmao
>>64776560
>perceived dynamic ranger
Walker, Texas Ranger
>>64776595
lmao because knowing the basics about a topic means i don't get laid
u know girls like intelligence bro?
>>64776616
dude when i say "girls" i mean actual girls not your 2d waifus
and trust me when i say that girls like weed, money and my bbc
JUST
>>64776451
The only genre that is negatively affected by this is rock. Other genres either aren't part of this trend or sound good without big dynamics.
>>64776646
damn u sound like a straight baller, what are you doing posting on a anime message board in the wee hours of the morning?
>>64776646
nigger alert
>>64776484
>le only good music was made in le ninties!!
fuck off
>>64776669
Good point desu
>>64776691
Nice reading comprehension skills
>>64776690
someone is getting got
>>64776685
haha just wanted to post my mixtape but i didnt want to set the board on fire
>>64776690
keep crying while we take your women away cracka
>>64776507
le witty contrarian right generation ironic shit posting poptimist cancer man
>>64776685
He's obviously shitposting, senpai
Are there any modern rock groups that actually utilize dynamics?
>>64776893
The Strokes and many of the groups they inspired throughout the '00s.
inb4 someone who knows nothing about audio uses the term "brickwalled"
>>64776893
Yeah any band worth their salt should. Unless they wanna sound like Nickelback
>>64776500
Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
>>64777047
Shit, thanks for the warning. I'm gonna go and transcode my MP3 files into FLAC files.
I'll make sure to upload them to every music tracker I know to save other people's music from rotational velocidensity.
>>64777084
wow, thanks for the effort. you're a modern hero.
>>64776823
>trying this hard
>>64777047
this
>>64777047
This is the reason a lot of people collect vinyl and swear by the sound quality. No degredation of sound even from records made in the 50's. A lot of them really are the best sounding source left.
BECAUSE WE
ARE
YOUR FRIENDS
>>64777047
wtf how did I not know about this
>>64776665
What is everyone's problem with remasters? The remaster of Amon Duul II Yeti enhances the guitars which are mixed pretty bad on the original LP, far too quiet.
>>64778491
hope you are memeing
I've discovered during the last two years, since I can take CD-Rs home from the mastering plant, that there's an astonishing variation in quality between different CD plants. If you think digital is perfect, I have news for you. Many of us have been fooled by this myth that it's just 0s and 1s and therefore copies perfectly. It doesn't. The variations in quality are pretty wild, and random. Just the way you hook up a cable can make a difference. And there's no quality control in these CD plants, other than someone checking whether there's any level being transferred.
Most of us take it for granted that a CD is a CD, and we almost never discuss about varying standards of manufacture. I can't say too much about current US manufacturer's because I have few US made CDs. I have still detected a general shrillness to many US CDs ("let's tweek the high end to make them sound sharp to delude the general public that our CDs sound better than vinyl and tape"). Tweeking the high end also accentuated the hiss. After so many disappointments and revelations having heard import versions after getting US discs I have concentrated on acquiring import pressings.
As for maunfacturers themselves: on the import side I like the clarity of Nimbus UK but they can be hissier and lighter on low end than MPO France which produces well rounded sounding CDs. PDO have been fine except for the recent PDO UK disc rot problem. Sonopress in Germany are adequate. I used to shy away from DADC in Austria (Sony Europe uses them) but have realised that was a personal bias. Nimbus USA (Virginia) vary. Their reissues of the OMD catalogue were shoddy. DADC in Indiana (Sony/Columbia) are so so.
>>64778668
My problem is calling remixes remasters.
>>64778852
Oh that's fair then I suppose.
>>64778836
This is my favorite new pasta
>>64778391
YOU'LL
NEVER BE ALONE AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN
NOW COME ONNNNNNNNNNNN
>>64777011
"brickwalled"
>>64776451
Are you trying to say Azealia Banks and Flying Lotus are better than Prince? Not sure what your point is
