Am 11.08.2013 10:57, schrieb Ken Restivo: > 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 am with you and have shared your pain with some CDs I purchased in the last 20 years. Most bestial example in my CD-Rack is a single from the Foo Fighters that comes with a "B"-side that is actually mastered with a lot of respect for dynamics and sounds actually very good while the "A"-side is a lifeless synthetic simulation of rock-music that looks like a line of toothpaste in an editor. I use to react to such policies by not buying/listening to music that is made that way. It is the artists choice to sound that way and I respect that and in respect for my own holy and immaculate personal taste I do not buy it. Regarding tools for "unmastering": I tried that several times to find methods to repair badly made recordings etc but I found, that there is not much that can be done about dynamics and near to nothing about distortion/clipping. Tools for audio-restoration are not that elaborated in Linux anyway. In some cases I had a little success by applying EQ to filter parts of the signal, that made distortions prominent for the hearing and maybe this could ease the pain for you too but I never managed its to restore dynamics *and* keep the signal authentic and filtering to diminish distortion has a very strong tendency to make the result sound numb. best regards... > > 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
