What's the Any Forums opinion on the loudness wars?

the term "loudness" doesn't mean simply that the volume is higher, it's a more consumer-friendly name for "dynamic range compession", which is a process where loud and quiet parts of a track are brought to similar levels, making everything about the same volume
this is useful in some cases, like listening in a noisy environment such as a car, when you want to be able to hear quiet parts without making the loud parts too loud at the same time
in normal listening conditions though, it's downright nasty to listen to, it cause listeners fatigue in no time as well
it doesn't take an audiophile to recognise the problem with this

oh, and to add insult to injury, dynamic range compression can be added to music in real time quite easily, but it's a non-reversable process
what this means is that if you need it, you can add it to the player, but if it's in the recording and you don't want it, you're fucked!
if you're old enough you've probably seen "loud" buttons on car stereos, this is what that does! adding it to the media permanently was never warranted for any purpose!

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lackluster artists covering up their mediocrity by blowing out your speakers
not every song needs to use dynamic volume but using normalization as a crutch is going to make your music less interesting to listen to by default
that can be fine when factored in but it usually isn't
also we have the technology to normalize music as a post-process so there's no reason to do it on the release itself

Clipping is awful but the track in the bottom doesn't look compressed enough, assuming it's a rock track.

oh shit, this user is 200IQ

>what's the Any Forums opinion on the loudness wars?
it's cancer.
facts

>if you're old enough you've probably seen "loud" buttons on car stereos, this is what that does! adding it to the media permanently was never warranted for any purpose!
this was just simple compression/gain circuit and had nothing to do with the audio being played. unlike systems such as dolby nr that was part of the audio.

brain damaged

>>expecting Any Forums to have an opinion on anything other than brand war faggotry or trannies
shut the fuck up, nigger.

CDs are capable of perfect audio reproduction and they completely decimated their audio for over a decade making it pointless.

Nigger you could have just turned your amplifier up!

>this was just simple compression/gain circuit and had nothing to do with the audio being played. unlike systems such as dolby nr that was part of the audio.
you've misunderstood my post somehow
i'm not suggesting it's something that works in tandem with some feature added to particular albums, like what dolby nr is

didn't think about this, it worked.

you dont know what producer means, dumb ESL