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• Loudness War: Peace is Almost Here!: Step into my Time Machine. This 20 minute video takes you from the quiet beginnings of the Compact Disc in 1980 through to Loudness Peace by the year 2020. It includes demonstrations of the loudest master I have ever had to make and paints a picture of what the art of audio mastering will be like once the loudness war has been settled. View the movie below or download the high resolution version. If you wish to download, it takes between 4 and 10 minutes to download on a fast (15 mbps) Cable connection, so please have patience for the download transfer. Loudness War and Peace v5 1024x768 medium|800|600|autoplay The Tides Have Changed, Thomas Lund's PDF presentation about the progress and triumphs forward in conquering the Loudness War, subtitled "A Tribute to Reason" "Peak Level, Loudness and Itunes". Read more...
• Bob Talks!: From Beijing to Buenos Aires.... June 2011, "Rome Calling" Rome_Calling_2011 June 2011, "Bob Till You Drop" BTYD_Rome_2011 May 2010, European tour for SAE Institute. Bob gave demonstrations of mastering techniques and spoke about audio mastering to students and professionals at SAE in: Amsterdam, Brussels, London, and Oxford. We treated the rooms for high-quality sound reproduction to help get the points across, and we used high-quality monitors: Genelec 1037 or PMC IB1S. May_2010_Europe May 2009, Bob gave a seminar on the loudness war to engineers of TC Electronic, and took a tour of one of the finest-sounding concert halls in the world, the Danish Radio Concert Hall. Copenhagen_Denmark_May_2009 May 2009, Bob gave a 3-day seminar on audio mastering to students of the Sibelius Music institute in Helsinki. We set up and aligned Genelec 1037 monitors for the demonstration. Helsinki_Finland_May_2009 April 2008, Bob demonstrated the sound of music before and after mastering at the Webster University Student Summit in St. Louis. We treated the room and used Meyer monitors with excellent headroom to demonstrate the quality of transient response and the effects of dynamics processing on stereo imaging and depth. Read more...
• Mastering Engineers Discuss Compression and Mixing: Threads from the Mastering Webboard
From: K.K. Proffitt Date: Monday, June 09,2003 05:08 PM

What I say is mix at a comfortable level and check at a very
quiet level and then at the standard level (and we should all be on the same
page with 83, 84 or 85 dBSPL for large room--but let's not go there and assume
85 for now, op. cit. RP200-2002). I have to tell you that about 50% of the
movies released are too loud at a cal'd level of 85 dBSPL for me to listen to,
but I check everything I send out at that level and have a feel for what is
expected. Bulla's research shows that engineers are mixing too damn loud. They
actually show serious threshold shift starting with Monday and getting worse
until Thursday! Repetitive threshold shift leads to high-end hearing damage, so
I think we should not suggest that mixers mix as loud as they want, but that
they keep an SPL meter at the desk and learn to LISTEN at reasonable levels.
Regards, KK Proffitt chief audio engineer, JamSync, Nashville
http://www. Read more...
• Humor Part 1: Communication Science A story came to me, and it reminds me that communication still is a global challenge. You might think that your message is clear, but an ever so fine deviation, can completely change the meaning of your message. "The Gift" A young man wanted to purchase a Christmas gift for his new sweetheart, and as they had not been dating very long, after careful consideration, he decided a pair of gloves would strike the right note: romantic, but not too personal. Accompanied by his sweetheart's younger sister, he went to Harrods and bought a pair of white gloves. The sister at the same time purchased a pair of panties for herself. During the wrapping, the clerk mixed up the items and the sister got the gloves and the young man got the panties. Without checking the contents, the young man sealed the package and sent it to his sweetheart with the following note: "I chose these because I noticed that you are not in the habit of wearing any when we go out in the evening. If it had not been for your sister, I would have chosen the long ones with the buttons, but she wears short ones that are easier to remove. These are a delicate shade, but the lady I bought them from showed me the pair she had been wearing for the past three weeks and they were hardly soiled. I had her try yours on for me and she looked really smart. Read more...
• Mastering Engineers Discuss Dynamics in Mixing: More Discussions from Recording Engineers on the Mastering Webboard Topic: major dynamic swings on pre-master
From: Marshall Simmons Date: Thursday, July 31, 2003 05:14 AM Hello--I'm about to send out some mixes to be mastered on a project that has quite a bit of promise... I've recorded everything with very little compression to the daw, and i'm finding that as i'm finishing up the mixes, i realize that i'm not using very much compression in the daw. It sounds pretty small at a 75db refrence
level, but bring it up to 95db refrence level and its HUGE. Dynamic impact and lots of space around all the instruments. Just so you know, this is more of a Emo--somewhat space-rock style of music. The difference between peaks and RMS right now is about 15 db. My question is this: Is this ok? I know we have all talked about the lack of dynamic range in recordings nowadays, and thats what i want to avoid, but i'm afraid i'm leaving the mastering engineer too much dynamic range. Read more...