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Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible



Vapor Trails was the coup de grace but if I recall there was a trend 
leading 
up to it...
great link below!

mp
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "greg williams" <gregorwilliams@comcast.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:10 PM
Subject: RE: Why contemporary music sounds terrible


> I've read that article as well, but I just did a search for it and
> apparently the link is gone. The big offender if I recall was the Rush CD
> 'Vapor Trails' which is apparently universally slammed for it's distorted
> 'brick wall' limiting. I remember it was quite an issue when the CD came
> out.
>
> I did find this article with some waveform graphs though; pretty
> interesting:
> http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htm
>
> I apologize if someone has already posted this one; I haven't read the 
> whole
> thread. You can find other related articles if you google 'brick wall
> limiting'
>
> ~Greg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Plishka [mailto:mike@michaelplishka.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:57 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible
>
> I'm still looking, Chris!  I know I had it on my old computer before it
> crashed!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Smart" <chris_s@sympatico.ca>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible
>
>
>> Wow, being a life-long Rush fan (the first grown-up band I got into 
>when 
>> I
>
>> was 11), I'd love to read this! Anyubody have a link?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> At 12:38 PM 2/26/2007, you wrote:
>>
>>>I know I'm joining late and this might have been mentioned somewhere 
>else
>>>but there is an excellent article on the web that showed the evolution 
>>>(or
>>>devolution) of music at the hand of compression and limiting. It 
>followed
>>>the band RUSH through it's history and it was amazing to see the shape 
>of
>>>the waveform go from a wonderful painting with shades of grey to a solid
>>>black stripe....
>>>
>>>Here's to the spaces in the music....
>>>
>>>
>>>Plish
>>>
>>>
>>>www.myspace.com/bohdanovich
>>>www.myspace.com/michaelplishka
>>>www.michaelplishka.com
>>>
>>>
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