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From Rolling Stone: 'Over the past decade and a
half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums
are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They
make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says. Engineers do
that by applying dynamic range compression, which reduces the
difference between the loudest and softest sounds in a song. Like many
of his peers, Bendeth believes that relying too much on this effect can
obscure sonic detail, rob music of its emotional power and leave
listeners with what engineers call ear fatigue. "I think most
everything is mastered a little too loud," Bendeth says. "The industry
decided that it's a volume contest."' More / Great sounding commercial CDs?
