I recently downloaded a few older (pre-2000) trance tracks in WAV form from Beatport. I'm thinking, "Great, I can finally have these tracks in the highest quality rather than just hearing them in sets or on YouTube." Then I listen to them only to find that they sound a bit shitty, and I wonder why. So I load them into Audacity and lo and behold, the levels are all maxed out and there are clipped peaks galore, something you generally do not see as much in music put out before the early 2000s or so. Someone has "remastered" them, probably for a Beatport reissue or whatever, and turned the audio quality to shit to make sure they fall in line with the stupid supercompressed standards of much of today's dance music.
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
No, but I also don't drink out of a fucking sippy-cup you goddamned Appalachian.
Sep-02-2009 19:06
MrJiveBoJingles
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.
The Northern Exposure Recordings reissues that I bought on BP have been fine. Thankfully they either did not touch them or did so tastefully enough that I didn't notice any decrease in quality.
Sep-02-2009 19:06
iTranscendence
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2009
Location: The Biggest Little City
Well, when I pay for something and then I get fucked on it like this, I just go get a lossless copy by other means then.
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
No, but I also don't drink out of a fucking sippy-cup you goddamned Appalachian.
Sep-02-2009 19:13
MrJiveBoJingles
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.
What I do not get is how some producers today can listen through their tunes that have been squashed by compressors and think, "This sounds great!" Is it because all the other music they listen to sounds shitty and squashed, too?
Sep-02-2009 19:20
Mr.Mystery
Static Guru
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa
quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
What I do not get is how some producers today can listen through their tunes that have been squashed by compressors and think, "This sounds great!" Is it because all the other music they listen to sounds shitty and squashed, too?
