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Attempting to answer this question properly would take me about 2500 words..... ......So here you go: http://trustmeimascientist.com/2012/04/02/how-to-win-the-loudness-war/ The problem with this, is yes you can turn down the volume, but if the peaks are clipped, you have already ruined the sound. T...

It's just, I am getting tired of buying albums by great bands, who are using guiatr-bass-drums, and writing songs that seem to want to have dynamics, but everything is crushed out. Every snare hit sounds as loud as every bass drum hit and every tom hit. Every acoustic guitar sounds as loud as every ...

And that is part of the problem. The ignorance of the definition of a term is partly to blame for why people get their mixes squished to heck and back again. You cannot have fully dynamic mixes when you are compressing them. You do NOT use a compressor to get e more dynamic mix, but to get a LESS d...

That's true. So many people just send the CD master to the plant to have someone who doesn't give a shit cut a lacquer from the CD master. Ooof. In the end, sending the cutting engineer a loud master is useless anyway. The person cutting the lacquer has the ultimate control over how loud your maste...

I have to agree with folks on here regarding it's what the clients want. They want to compete with everything else. They want the end listener to not raise a red flag over loud = good = professional= whatever. I am definitely getting mixes that are squished beforehand. I am definitely asked about l...

And that is part of the problem. The ignorance of the definition of a term is partly to blame for why people get their mixes squished to heck and back again. You cannot have fully dynamic mixes when you are compressing them. You do NOT use a compressor to get e more dynamic mix, but to get a LESS d...

Seriously want to know what many mastering engineers are thinking and why anyone who cared about the sound quality of their music would want to use mastering engineers, at least for digital releases...

still for sale, just a bump

assuming you are not listening to "remastered" versions or whatnot.,,

I buy a lot of indie rock type music. Why is it mastered so poorly with terrible dynamics, especially on CD? I assume many Tapeop readers are professionals and are responsible for many of the records i like to buy. Do you mastering folks listen to this stuff? Brickwalled, over compressed, etc is the...

Hi, I am thinking about selling my 388. It would have to be picked up in Philly. It has a few minor issues that can probably be solved by cleaning/re-seating/etc. Basically a bit of noise here and there and a couple things where you have to press a button hard or wiggle a knob a bit to make it work ...

personally i like the dbx on the 388. It seems to make the track a bit fuller overall and less noise in the mixing stage of course. Anyway you can always use it on some quieter sources where you might need to mix in a higher level and hear more noise on tracks 1-4 and off on 5-8 (or just defeated on...

In my case I did not need to actually record to see/fix the problem. Just send some known good input to track three. It was dead before I fixed the fader, no output on the meter or in the monitor. Tape tests verified the fix worked...

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Hey, thanks for the suggestions on this folks. I was able to fix it myself fortunately (I posted this in response to another thread where someone had a similar problem, but I will put it here as well). In my case, no audio would record to track 3 regardless of which input i was using. Nothing would ...

Hi, I had a similar issue with a track that would not record at all but played back fine. Actually it was track three as well coincidentally. I was able to fix it though, see if this works for you. Play with the pgm fader for the odd channels while recording to the bad track (move it around, wiggle,...