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This is the same song, mastered at four different dates.
Don't we see a horrible trend going on here?
No, this isn't technology getting better, enabling us to record at louder deciBel levels. This is modern times demanding that songs be pushed to the brink of a recording, making all sounds as loud as the other. There are no soft sounds and loud sounds, there is just the song compressed to hell, giving no dynamic range.
Go ahead, test it out. Put on any song released in 2008. ANY song. Listen to it.
[Note: for an added effect, choose a strong rock song.]
Now go listen to something released in the 80's. Pop in Piano Man by Billy Joel. Take a ride with an original recording of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Now, notice the difference.
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Bohemian Rhapsody?! I knew you liked Queen! Haha. =]]
But this is some crazy stuffffff. We're all just gonna be deaf one day. Sad stuff, sad stuff.
--Alyssa. =]]
It's not so much the overall loudness of the song, because we have the chance to turn it up or down, and so it's more of things like drums not standing out. All instruments are the same loudness, and pushed to their maximum level. There's no quiet parts in songs.
Live is another story though. We will go deaf from that.
Ohhhh....I gotcha now. lol. That's true though now that you point it out. Hmm...interesting stuff.
Do you know what song it is??
"Something" by The Beatles.
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