[LAU] Limiters?

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Sun Jul 10 16:28:50 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:57:41PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:

> On Saturday 09 July 2011 23:43:07 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > Mastering as a separate step has two, maybe three functions or
> > merits:
> > 3. To equalise levels and atmosphere and create dramatic effect
> > when assembling an album consisting of several separate pieces.
> > The is the only function that remains today, in the circumstances
> > we are talking about.
> 
> Given that nowadays most music is sold in songs, not in albums, and even if 
> sold in albums, is played in tracks in random order on peoples players, it is 
> pretty futile to create a consistent effect for several songs...

Not all music is 'songs', and some people still have an 
attention span that exceeds 180s. 

Ciao,

-- 
FA



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