| Awesome.
I've been saying this for a couple years now, too ... that we should get two masters made, one with "modern" dynamic range but not totally insane, and a second one with even more dynamic range than vinyl.
I mean, it's sad, this is what digital recording is really good at — capturing huge dynamic range — and we just piss it away.
Even for downloaded tracks, this could make a huge difference. As bandwidth increases, there's no reason two different versions can't be encoded in the same file, sort of like a fat binary app. You could encode the "stupid loud" version at 160K (could it possibly need more than that?) and the "full range" version at 320K. For a four-minute song, the total file size would still be only about 15 MB, and that's nothing.
JSL |