If you purchased Metallica's new album Death Magnetic, you may have noticed that it sounds like complete shit. But don't blame Metallica, producer Rick Rubin or mastering engineer Ted Jensen—the real culprit here is Apple and their dammed iPod. While the "loudness wars" have been going on since the late 80's, the development of digital music and the iPod have heated things up. Record execs are tempted to sacrifice dynamic range for increased volume because digital music makes it possible to squeeze all of the sound into a narrow, high-volume range. This temptation is pressed further when you try and optimize sound for the iPods crappy lo-fi earbuds.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
It was in fact a continuous shit-stream of contemptible songs and singing
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