How to end the so called 'loudness war.'

Hello Mark 🙂
I won’t Debate on what you said; but it is Certainly an Interesting Topic :);
A Lot of the Earlier Part of this Year (on Recommendation); I was just throwing a Limiter on the Master Channel of All my Tracks so they wouldn’t Clip; but since getting some New Headphones I realised almost Instantly how much Degradation there was to the Actual Sound Quality with a Limiter on there;
So now; I am Mixing at -0.6db and my Tracks are not Clipping; and the Sound Quality is Tons Better 🙂

Hektik mArK dA 5hufEleR, post: 3736 wrote: So lately I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about this ‘problem’ in the music industry called the ‘loudness war.’

If you’re smart like me you probably already know this is all some sort of liberal media jargon made up to support Apple, but I’ll explain it for you anyway.

As you can see in the above pictorial, one song has more grey areas than another song, this gray stuff is loudness.

Basically, through a process called ‘limiting’ music is made louder (that doesn’t even make sense?), by removing something called dynamics. What happens is the ‘RMS’ of the song is raised while still keeping within the 0dB digital maximum.

Now if you’re a genious like me you have probably already figured out the solution, and its a simple one.

Instead of bitchin” about how music is ‘losing dynamics’ and how ‘music is getting ruined,’ just raise this ‘digital maximum’ to like, 5dBs or something. That is the only smart solution.

-Dj.Mark the Shuffler

Why? there has to be a maximum, and people will abuse the headroom provided whatever it is. We posted on this: http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/03/6-ways-to-avoid-losing-in-the-loudness-war/