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Originally Posted by Jim Williams  Could have fooled me. Some of the stuff that is accepted today would have been outright rejected 30 years ago. Clipping, mass compression, excess THD all would have been disqualifiers.
Quality standards have changed, for the worse.
I havn't figured out who's responsible, the AE's, ME's, record companys or a dumbed down public. Probably all of them have some responsibility. |
I have tons of examples that contradict this, although the concept of "quality" is not so rigid as you might think.
Just last December, a band I mastered had the
entire record rejected by the label. Why? Because the raw mixes were way over-compressed. They re-did the whole thing, and the final result is much better. Cost plenty, I'm sure.
To some, there is an "optimum" setting, and quality basically just comes shooting out.
DC