On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:37:06AM +0000, gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. Good point, since it's Kickstarter and "pay-what-you-like", I'd be happy to pay for a version of the record undamaged by clipping and extreme compression. So maybe that kind of effort could be crowd-funded. After all, mastering does cost money-- $500/track for pro mastering IIRC, plus any remixing that might be necessary to fix problems masked by the extreme compression. And there are like 20 tracks on this thing, so I guess if there are enough people to raise $10k+ then maybe it's make sense for her to remaster it with less compression and release an undamaged version of it. Plus, if such an effort succeeds, it might even send a notice to other artists that there is a market for people who enjoy music that doesn't consist solely of square waves. -ken -- --------- > 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
