“The final world-shattering salvo of the Loudness War”: Here’s the waveform of the first minute of Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”.
Ohmygod. It’s clipping-as-distortion-effect.
“The final world-shattering salvo of the Loudness War”: Here’s the waveform of the first minute of Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”.
Ohmygod. It’s clipping-as-distortion-effect.
dug up from a few weeks ago and reblogged for dylan.
Excellent bringing this up, and Owen of course provided an excellent citation for this.
The biggest failure of this is that digital clipping doesn’t create a “good” kind of distortion like analog recording...
that song hurts.
Bob Weston has a great bit about the whole loudness wars up on his mastering company’s website.
Crush, expand, crush, expand; louder, louder, louder; destruction, lifeless It destroys me
but clipping (or, at least, serious deterioration of sound quality) is already an effect of distortion, when you listen...
Ohmygod. It’s clipping-as-distortion-effect.