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5.24.2004 posted by William 22:38 link |
File this under "Weird Stuff Bill Cares About But No One Else Does". Because of a pyschoacoustic phenomenon that causes people to react more favorably to louder music, music producers are competing in a "loudness race" that seeks to win more popularity by replacing dynamic contrast with, well, gobs of volume. In fact, this has been going since George Martin was recording the Beatles, but it seems now to be reaching the point where songs are being produced that are simply compressed bricks of sound. This phenomenon has been written about, at length and somewhat stridently, at LoudnessRace.net.
I know that on the list of problems in the world, this ranks pretty low, but I get annoyed at having mess with the volume every time I switch between a recording of classical music and rock or pop or whatever. And dynamic contrast, it's good, it's an element of music, and I want to hear what artists can do with it, please. |
