12 Aug
2013
12 Aug
'13
11:22 a.m.
Am 11.08.2013 10:57, schrieb Ken Restivo:
It's been a while since I did anything with linux
audio, or even had much to do with music, but now I'm attempting to listen to music
that has been recently released, and find it unlistenable.
The mastering! The compression! It burns!! It burns!!! Auugh, my ears!!
I am with you and have shared your pain with some CDs I purchased in the
last 20 years. Most bestial example in my CD-Rack is a single from the
Foo Fighters that comes with a "B"-side that is actually mastered with a
lot of respect for dynamics and sounds actually very good while the
"A"-side is a lifeless synthetic simulation of rock-music that looks
like a line of toothpaste in an editor.
I use to react to such policies by not buying/listening to music that is
made that way. It is the artists choice to sound that way and I respect
that and in respect for my own holy and immaculate personal taste I do
not buy it.
Regarding tools for "unmastering":
I tried that several times to find methods to repair badly made
recordings etc but I found, that there is not much that can be done
about dynamics and near to nothing about distortion/clipping.
Tools for audio-restoration are not that elaborated in Linux anyway. In
some cases I had a little success by applying EQ to filter parts of the
signal, that made distortions prominent for the hearing and maybe this
could ease the pain for you too but I never managed its to restore
dynamics *and* keep the signal authentic and filtering to diminish
distortion has a very strong tendency to make the result sound numb.
best regards...
I mean, it's obviously distorted. I can hear the clipping. People are putting out
released tracks that I can't listen to without getting a splitting headache.
Is there any such thing that I might be able to pipe into an ALSA or JACK setup, which
would repair these broken tracks?
It's sad. It's like people are mastering for laptop speakers, cellphone speakers,
or earbuds, and nothing else.
FWIW, as an example, I've just stumbled across the music of Amanda Palmer, downloaded
her latest album, I think the music is great, or could be, but I can't listen to it
because of the mastering.
-ken
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