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Quote by Bob Katz "Well, in the loudness race, if you have to make it "loud" (in front of the volume control) analog-domain clipping (especially if it's a hair of clipping on just on a few or one peak transient) can produce fewer artifacts than digital-domain peak limiting or clipping. Excess in any practice can produce bad-sounding results."
This is exactly what I meant,a few overs here and there on the input stage and no one will notice (headroom is the essence of this topic) , but once every wave starts being decapitated it just sounds wrong.
I guess some people like to be deaffened,with the advent of the pocket cassette decks and ipods and such manufacturers have to set a standard listening environment otherwise they will be sued by all the kids who are going deaf from listening too loud. So I guess making music really loud is the result to overcome conservative headphone output levels.
Using great converters to record loud music is a great idea only to be sabotaged by cheap 50c DA converters in most digital consumer playback devices.The cheaper the player the worse the converters and lesser headroom. We are trying to finalise for manufacture recorded audio/music which translates everywhere on any system with intelligability. My understanding of mastering. This should always be taken into account.
Off topic.
I guess at a few Van Halen concerts the last thing some people ever heard would have been Eddie Van Halens pinch harmonics at 140 db or probably louder. I bet they still regret now more than ever turning up at the show.
It's becoming an even finer line between pleasure and pain these days I guess.
Anyway it's good to read some differing opinions,as it is all a matter of taste and there are no rules when it comes to being creative with music. Though I like to follow some. Keep the opinions coming anyone,I'm still interested on some differing views.
Heath
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