10 points
Wednesday 21st November
I hereby award 10 points to The Guillemots for preserving the art of dynamic range on their album Through The Windowpane.
In this world of iPods in noisy environments, it’s so tempting for bands to compress their dynamic range to an unexpressive plateau. However, this album has some real adrenaline surging crescendos.
I blame radio 1 rather than the iPod. They munge and squish and enhance and scintilify, and so on, everything so I wouldn’t be surprised if the guillemots have done a separate issue for radio play
sweavo
21 Nov 07 at 2:50 pm
I blame the person who decided it would be a good idea to put a radio in a car.
Try listening to Radio 3 in a car. They don’t seem to run their output through a level compressor, so either the quiet bits are completely inaudible given the engine and road noise, or the loud bits are completely deafening and lead to people driving off the road in shock. Or both at the same time, if the peice they’re playing has quite a wide range.
Solution 1: every station should broadcast two signals, one uncompressed (for serious fidelity-ophiles) and one compressed (or serious drivers).
Solution 2: every station should broadcast uncompressed signals, and car radios should include compressors to sort out the problem there.
Simon's Tall
21 Nov 07 at 3:02 pm
Sir Alec Issigonis mayhisglorioussoulrestinpeace believed that cars shouldn’t have radios. Which is why there’s nowhere to put one in a mini.
stu
21 Nov 07 at 3:11 pm
Or it was a cover-up because the mini was too loud to listen to a radio at _any_ volume.
stu
21 Nov 07 at 3:12 pm
arf!
sweavo
22 Nov 07 at 10:29 am