joshisrad wrote:The majority of people bitching about the loudness war are producers. Jealous, hating, nothing-better-to-do, no-name producers. You can do whatever you want, you can get your tracks mastered however you want wherever you want. I don't care. Nor should you care what mister #1 on Beatport of the month does for mastering. Quit hating.
hey dickhead. i'm not jealous. Not hating. Yeah I'm a producer. Of course producers are the ones who care about this issue. Non-producers don't know as much if anything about compression, dynamics, distortion, gain, etc.
If we fixed the misconceptions, we'd be capable of producing better sounding mixes. But we are forced to respond to the pressure so we aren't heard as "too quiet" by the ignorant listener who can't be arsed to turn it up (and shouldn't have to).
For the average consumer to notice the difference, you'd have to sit and A/B countless tracks across decades and demonstrate the loudness/dynamics tradeoff. But after having done that, they'd agree with the more knowledgeable producers that masters sound nicer when they aren't hard-limited.
Producers care about this issue because we don't like having to destroy our own hard work to make sure people will hear it. It's not about Excision or anyone else. This was a Loudness Wars thread in the production forum, and you mistook it for a "lets hate on brostep" thread in General, and decided to be a big tough guy whiteknight and protect your Bros.
Well fuck that, fuck them and fuck you too.
