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The loudness war isn't dead until people stop brick-walling their mixes at the mastering stage.

You can adjust playback volume between tracks all you want, but if they all have like 6dB of dynamic range, they're going to sound like garbage.

You're not really eliminating the loudness wars unless you find a way to Command-Z all of that ridiculous limiting (or convince people not to do it in the first place).



people will stop doing it though, if they can't get any advantage out of it. see also "Mastered for iTunes"


I totally get your point, but I would argue that they've _never_ gotten any real advantage out of it. They just think they do.

I'm not sure that's going to stop. It's just the way that people think they have to do things. Cargo cult mastering techniques, basically.




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