The Loudness War

[taturana]

Originally Posted by Thomas W. Bethe

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.

maybe you should ask the video editors who send me audio for post for tips on how to pass more than 0 dbfs eehe ... you know,those chunky solid blocks of waveform rocks of pure digital distortion... where somehow they are able to go to 3-6 db (with intersample peaks of course...)... scary stuff.. mindblowing really....

it's hell out there...

[kri]

I mastered this guys cd that lives in my town. The whole thing had been limited to death and that was all he had. Well he came back and said his version seemed to have more mids, I was like "I dont think so"
So he came over and what it was , was his was so limited it made it louder
So instead of him turning it up 2 db with the volume knob , he made me limit it more to make it seem louder. Not to mention the -6 rms

[Thomas W. Bethe]

Originally Posted by taturana

maybe you should ask the video editors who send me audio for post for tips on how to pass more than 0 dbfs eehe ... you know,those chunky solid blocks of waveform rocks of pure digital distortion... where somehow they are able to go to 3-6 db (with intersample peaks of course...)... scary stuff.. mindblowing really....

it's hell out there...

Yea we get those guys to. Oh well keeps the job interesting.