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Song compression/processing question

We've had good luck with the Omnia 9's "Undo" function, especially on hip - hop product which is usually hammered to the walls.
I miss the days of 45s produced for the market they were aimed at (hammered for jukeboxes, kinda smushed for public sale, and pretty much left alone for radio).
 
littlejohn said:
We've had good luck with the Omnia 9's "Undo" function, especially on hip - hop product which is usually hammered to the walls.
I miss the days of 45s produced for the market they were aimed at (hammered for jukeboxes, kinda smushed for public sale, and pretty much left alone for radio).
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I've heard good things about undo. I program a Hip-Hop station. I use declipper on some of my tracks prior to the automation. I wish I had the budget for a 9 or 11.

If you ever get time, I'd love to get a clip of something from the 9 on hip-hop content.
 
For interest sake if you play those songs through breakaway audio enhancer, the high band really punches a hole in the treble.
 
This was also problematic in Stereo Tool, I've just fixed it (added an extra lowpass filter before all the processing). Fix is available in the latest beta-version. The new filter can be switched on or off for comparison here: Processing -> Bandpass -> Filter before processing.
 
Robert Bass said:
Mastering engineers know perfectly well what they are doing. They are responding to the label's desire to make everything sound as loud as terrestrial radio.

R
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They do to that extent, but I've still read forums on music mastering that refer to a song being mastered loudly "because it might end up on the radio". There still seems to be a hard-headed belief that this crap is making stuff louder on air! There is also no regard for the fact that the phase rotator can put those nasty clipped-off spots anywhere in the waveform!

They produce crap, and then "blame" radio for adding the remaining distortion that makes it unlistenable! ...as though we're now supposed to run 'purist' settings on the air so it doesn't bugger up their garbage any more!

Terrestrial radio was never meant to be a purist medium... the audio CD at one time was!
 
Speaking of songs and a little off topic, but not too far off... how did you make out with that 5300?

And yes, mastering is out of control now. Rip a song from a late 80's/early 90's CD in and compare it to something from the past couple of years.

What they don't seem to get is smashing something that's already smashed doesn't work!!!
 
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