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The Loudness

On Saturday night, the annoying loud music in a restaurant prompted me to mention something I’d read on the internet about how there’s this trend in modern music to mix the recordings so that they’re too loud and grating to listen to. Now, I didn’t remember what I’d read well enough to explain it properly, but oddly enough, the next day I noticed that Fogi had linked to a profile (Hebrew) of Rick Rubin which describes Rubin’s criticized technique of using too much compression to make everything too loud.
Damn. If only in Real Life you could just scatter some links to information instead of needing to actually read and understand it well enough to be able to explain it.