[Thomas W. Bethe]

Originally Posted by soundsundergroun

Why hasn't there been a standard RMS? Like an RIAA suggested standard?

Because no one would follow it.

I had a client that was upset because I could not get his stuff louder than everyone else's material. I told him that 0 dBFS was a loud as I could go and he says "who do I have to talk to so I can can get more DBs I want to tell them to raise the level so we can have louder CDs" when I tried to explain to him the 0 dBFS level his eyes glazed over and I knew I was losing him.

Everyone today wants everything LOUDER than everything else and they cannot understand why mastering engineer cannot do what they want. So if a few laws of physics and electronics have to be broken to give them what they want why not break them??????