ivantoar
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Speaking of loudness... I compared two songs in my hard disk in Audacity
Oh my, look at the first one...
Oh my, look at the first one...
Sad, a 30+ year old recording walks all over a fairly modern recording. It doesn't have to be that way.
Makes me wonder, in ten years will this be considered the dark ages of recording technology?
meanwhile, congratulations to Adele. Can't say the same about the mastering of "21".
The mastering...all things considered...isn't that bad. There are much worse offenders.
I agree that there are worse offenders but I just put the mp3 download from Amazon I have of "Rolling in the Deep" into Sound Forge and did a "Detect Clipping" (limit was set at 0.0 db) and it ended up finding over 5,500 clips.
Now I have been using Sound Forge for close to 10 years so I know that the "Detect Clipping" process isn't the most accurate, for those that haven't used it it can double up the clip ie. it will see more than one clip that with a simple visual inspection you can tell there is only one, but it can also not catch clips at all so they generally come out roughly even.
Its almost useless running that sort of test on an mp3. The usual decoding processes end up introducing small amounts clipping themselves.