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Originally Posted by jungleland
So is it really new remastered or you guys have better equipment than a few years back in time  ? |
Well yes better equipment will be available but there is little you can do volume wise when you're already at max anyway. A lot of analogue recordings from the 80s and early 90s were recorded well within the maximum gain so not to reduce the quality. Remastering is basically a process that normalises the track and brings any random peaks in the waveform to a similar level as the rest of the track. This is so the gain can be boosted and thus the overall volume of the track without (in theory) reducing quality. If these tracks have already been remastered digitally, as they have with the remasters that were released just before the turn of the century, then to make it louder still you would have to sacrifice a bit of quality and make certain louder parts of the track quieter or even inaudible.
The best way of checking this would be to open the track in a piece of recording software such as Audacity. If the waveform appears to be solid in some or all areas rather than having peaks and troughs then there's a good chance the gain has been over-boosted. It's shit when they do that. I can see why they do it so the songs sound louder and stand out on radio, etc, but the extent to which it is done these days is ruining music as we know it.
05-25-2010, 12:48 AM
