| When the time comes the composer doesn't like his own dynamics ...
One thing that helps is taming the loud hits during tracking, by the musicians themselves. A good hit really together sounds more powerful than just banging the hell out of the instruments, and it will leave more headroom.
If we're correcting after the fact, well we're doing just that aren't we ?
Sometimes contemporary music seems to have too big a dynamic range, but I fail to see the point in reducing this. It will never be easy listening music, or something to listen to in the car.
Unless we're actually correcting a balance problem.
Reminds me of the soprano that wanted to listen to her own recording at realistic levels, on a run-of-the-mill hifi - and then complained it distorted. |