On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:57:41PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Saturday 09 July 2011 23:43:07 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > Mastering as a separate step has two, maybe three functions or > > merits: > > 3. To equalise levels and atmosphere and create dramatic effect > > when assembling an album consisting of several separate pieces. > > The is the only function that remains today, in the circumstances > > we are talking about. > > Given that nowadays most music is sold in songs, not in albums, and even if > sold in albums, is played in tracks in random order on peoples players, it is > pretty futile to create a consistent effect for several songs... Not all music is 'songs', and some people still have an attention span that exceeds 180s. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
