{"id":210,"date":"2012-10-05T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-07-30T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:54:53","slug":"0dbfs-pl-bringing-a-nuke-to-the-loudness-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/05\/0dbfs-pl-bringing-a-nuke-to-the-loudness-war\/","title":{"rendered":"0dbfs.pl: Bringing a Nuke to the Loudness War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Loudness War?  It&#8217;s the steady ramp-up in perceived volume that has plagued popular music for the past 30+ years.  Producers have steadily chipped away at dynamic range in an effort to make a hotter track.  Audio signal-to-noise ratio suffers.  Nowadays the typical radio song has a 3-6 dB dynamic range (for comparison, CDs have a theoretical 96 dB range).<\/p>\n<p>Well folks: I&#8217;m playing to WIN.  Here is a compressor that scales ALL of your peaks to 100%: in other words, compression at a ratio of INFINITY : 1&#8230; or a dynamic range of 0.  TAKE THAT, PRODUCERS.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example in action, cutting from Clair de Lune.  First, the original.  Then, the RADIO-READY version.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F62273078&#038;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t this just sound so much more&#8230; hip \/ edgy \/ loud \/ etc?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, I tried it on a selection of pop music.  It makes for a great demonstration of &#8220;listener fatigue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/0dbfs.zip'>0dbfs.zip<\/a> &#8211; zip file containing Perl script, 1.7 kB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Loudness War? It&#8217;s the steady ramp-up in perceived volume that has plagued popular music for the past 30+ years. Producers have steadily chipped away at dynamic range in an effort to make a hotter track. Audio signal-to-noise ratio suffers. Nowadays the typical radio song has a 3-6 dB dynamic range (for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}