The three previous Katie Melua albums sounded great. Great dynamics and sound quality – just the way CDs should be produced. Naturally, when I heard about this new release “The House” I was overjoyed. My joy did not last long, however. Here’s the DR rating stats: http://dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=4891 Average Value: DR7 I’m a big fan of the [...]
Originally a DR4 & DR5 set of tracks – now “re-mastered” to a DR11-level – with my usual de-clipping treatment as well as dynamics changes and minor EQ alterations. This album has been redone with the aim of bringing the presence of the music back in to focus and giving the overall album more life.
Remastering of the Dream Theater new album preview single. Originally a DR6 marginally clipped track – now “re-mastered” to a DR12-level – General dynamics treatments and so on. The impact, and the resultant attention it draws from the listener as a result of the increased dynamics and seperation of instruments helps make the song a lot more memorable & also interesting.
Thank you for visiting, this site aims at bringing awareness to the general public about a worrying and disasterous trend in modern recorded music, commonly dubbed “The Loudness Wars”. This is where music is being excessively compressed or “squashed” in terms of loudness so that a song is as loud as possible the entire way [...]