Certainly, many if not most engineers are painfully aware of these sonic assaults inflicted on recordings for reasons that have nothing to do with artistic preference and everything to do with crass marketing trickery.
https://gearspace.com/board/mastering-forum/1401406-intersample-clipping-audible.html
Obviously, the trouble is engineers also know that they must either comply with what those who are paying them believe they need to do in order to sell the record or risk getting fired.
And this is precisely why producers and artists need to be told how they are mutilating their own products and making them sound like crap, at least on relatively decent audio systems-not to mention on high res systems. AND they need to be told by US, the consumers-who populate forums like this-as we clearly have the biggest stake in putting an end to this practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
So yes, as is done when necessary in all other affairs, naming names of offending producers and artists is justified.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LoudnessWar/TheWorstOffenders
How else to put an end to else can this problem?
https://gearspace.com/board/mastering-forum/1401406-intersample-clipping-audible.html
Obviously, the trouble is engineers also know that they must either comply with what those who are paying them believe they need to do in order to sell the record or risk getting fired.
And this is precisely why producers and artists need to be told how they are mutilating their own products and making them sound like crap, at least on relatively decent audio systems-not to mention on high res systems. AND they need to be told by US, the consumers-who populate forums like this-as we clearly have the biggest stake in putting an end to this practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
So yes, as is done when necessary in all other affairs, naming names of offending producers and artists is justified.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LoudnessWar/TheWorstOffenders
How else to put an end to else can this problem?
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