On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:06:46AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > I don't like my recording of Haydns "Die Jahreszeiten" (en: > "The seasons") conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken. But the main reason for this is > the audio engineer that mixed the second with to much dynamic range and to > much headroom => its not loud enough for most listening environments... Turn up the volume... Could you make a cdda copy of it an run it through ebur128 ? I'm quite curious for the results... Directors such as Kuijken tend to respect the composer's indications for dynamics. Most of my training and experience is for live radio broadcast where you have to apply some reduction in most cases. But in general I try to keep as much of the natural dynamic range as possible - it is part of what the composer intended. Last tuesday I recorded a concert by La Stagione Armonica, performing madrigals by Adriano Banchieri (around 1600). 15 singers, 5 flutes (one of them a double bass, 2 meters high), and an actor. Many of Banchieri's music is quite theatrical, and with the acted parts in between the songs you get a dynamic range that is much wider than it would be for just the madrigals. You can reduce that a bit, but overdoing it just kills the whole atmosphere of the performance. I ended up with an LRA (loudness range) of around 20 dB, and an average loudness just on spot, with 0.9 dB of headroom left. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
