I'm a backer of the Theater Is Evil release. The compression doesn't bother me, but many times I wish they'd brought her voice up in the mix. But, yeah, contact her and let her know. After released the Kickstarter deluxe version, she did go back and redo one of the tracks (don't remember which one right now), it came out much better than the original. No Linux involved in her work - she's a Mac-based musician, based on the photos I've seen. -- david gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community ---- Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's been a while since I did anything with linux audio, or even had much to do with music, but now I'm attempting to listen to music that has been recently released, and find it unlistenable. > > The mastering! The compression! It burns!! It burns!!! Auugh, my ears!! > > I mean, it's obviously distorted. I can hear the clipping. People are putting out released tracks that I can't listen to without getting a splitting headache. > > Is there any such thing that I might be able to pipe into an ALSA or JACK setup, which would repair these broken tracks? > > It's sad. It's like people are mastering for laptop speakers, cellphone speakers, or earbuds, and nothing else. > > FWIW, as an example, I've just stumbled across the music of Amanda Palmer, downloaded her latest album, I think the music is great, or could be, but I can't listen to it because of the mastering. > > -ken > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user