loudness wars

I had a band in to make their ep in my studio in november last year. As I run a little one-man-studio in my sparetime I try to work with bands as smoothly and nicely I can while doing all the stuff myself. I depend on them to get the feeling of coming in having a great time while recording some music so that they might spread the word around of my little studio. Now as a small project studio I offer my clients a complete finnished mastered record at a very low price so that young kids would be able to afford to make their own record without spending thousands of dollars.

14 Oct 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2013

THE LAST BATTLE OF THE LOUDNESS WAR HAS BEEN WON
Orlando, Florida: “The debilitating loudness war has finally been won,” said mastering engineer Bob Katz on the eve of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention in New York City. The last battle will be over by mid-2014.”

Ian Shepherd discussing the 2012 Green Day Remaster .

How loud is your mix really? This video explains what we are doing to music to make it seem louder.

[GALLERY=media, 405]The Loudness War - YouTube by audiokid posted Apr 5, 2015 at 6:15 PM[/GALLERY]

http://www.dynamicrange.de/

Grab this meter:
http://www.dynamicrange.de/free-downloads

Interesting site I found. Not sure if its been mentioned here.
http://www.turnmeup.org/

I guess everyone is worried that after consumers have a LOUD CD in the deck, and switching to a Dyanamic CD(not so loud),
that the consumer will wonder,
"Why the hell is this one so low."
And they will link that to quality issues, or something of the such.

Im talking about regular consumers, that have no Idea about music production and mastering. They just listen to music.

http://www.gatewaymastering.com/gateway_LoudnessWars.asp

Could this be the end of the loudness war? The beginning of the end?

Check out todays article in the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes…]

A very good article on the loundness wars.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-loudness_mastersonjan01,1,7109479.story?page=1&ctrack=2&cset=true&track=rss

Mark my words, all you wanna-be mastering engineers out there: There will be a new career waiting someday, for those who have the guts: REMASTERS of great works, without all the finalizers and compressors.

Found on Yahoo's tech page June, 27.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/33549

Interesting that they used the opening bits of McCartney's "Figure of Eight". (LOVE this tune, and the CD - Flowers in the Dirt; McCartney arguably at some of his post-Beatles best songs & production, IMHO.)