Or maybe a flag of defiance?...
Check it out, y'all. Public awareness of this madness is rising.
Notice that he's making two versions available. The one with the hyper-limiting and the one with the more naturalistic dynamic contour.
I'm so psyched.
Five years ago, while speaking on the mastering panel at Tape Op Con, I predicted that this would happen: The re-issue of classic records with the loudness war limiting
removed.
I said "Just you wait, the new versions will have a sticker on them which says '
Now with full dynamic range!'" Everybody laughed. And then I said "
I'm completely serious."
People kept laughing.
(I was wrong about the sticker part. 'Cause, really, why have stickers when there really aren't record stores anymore?...)
For the last few years, I have been making and archiving less limited versions of the records we've been mastering at Silver Sonya, predicting that someday the labels would start asking for them. It no longer seems like a crazy idea...
- c