Losing (beating) the Loudness War!

[KillerCharlie]

Another post about this?

 

[TheRyuu]

rubycon, tiamat, et al:

do you have an opinion on replaygain? i'm using it to normalize levels, but too often music takes on the sound of the metallica cd in the op. with replaygain turned off in foobar, it immediately sounds 100% better.

Replay Gain should be safe because it performs an analysis over the tracks, it's only changing the volume, not distorting anything so if you adjust your volume meter it should all sound the same regardless. (much like a 2 pass normalization except the file itself isn't touched, well it is just the metadata though)

At least this is how I perceive Replay Gain to work.

 

[lsv]

I'm a music producer and I have to say for the Metallica example that I completely agree. However... most of the tracks I receive mixed down that I master do indeed end up sounding much better mastered with multiband compression, stereo seperation, very light top end reverb and whatever else is needed.

Yes it makes a difference, yes I bet you have tons of tracks mastered this way in which you have no clue are at -0.2db and still sound great thanks to a good engineer.

Plus metal sucks, the only master I'd apply to that is -inf to the volume.

Heehehehe

 

[Rubycon]

Another post about this?

Yes because the video in the OP clearly shows that the music is NOT recorded in a "sucky" [sic] manner.