jasonqg.bsky.social
👤 Joined on 06 December 2023
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@jasonqg.bsky.socialliterally the levels were all compressed and flattened out. there is literally less depth and variance in recordings made during the loudness wars. it was only in the late 2000s and early 2010s that the trend of intense compression for the sake of volume started to go away.
Show PostNot your imagination. A lot of it was “the loudness wars” - albums were compressed heavily during mixing/mastering to be the loudest thing on the airwaves. Plus, lossy data compression for mp3s and other formats for streaming online. Albums mixed in the 70s had more room for dynamics to breathe.
Show PostThey just unknowingly truly hurt the oil industry
Show PostVery possibly, but the quoted tweet doesn't say that, it says that it was Bessent - the Treasury Secretary, the IRS chief's boss - who didn't even know about it.
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