| bobkatz wrote on Tue, 28 December 2004 10:59 |
Let's go back in time. It's 1990, or before.... the volume wars have barely started, digital limiters sound much worse and are barely used.
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Yes, and gas used to be a dime a gallon, hot dogs were a nickle...
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Mastering engineers are not feeling obliged to compete, or trying to push every stage of their chain as much as they can.
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Hello? Like it or not, mastering is a competitive service business. The best mastering engineers have
always been pushing their systems to the max... Max level, max "fidelity", custom everything. What are you talking about?
Just because the LP had physical restrictions to stop you, didn't mean they weren't trying! De-essers and fancy circuit breakers, computers, TV cameras....
Cut to the first guy who pulled the digital fader down 0.2dB and the red lights went away.
But the Laser never jumped out of the groove.............
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You have the total freedom to go for the "sound" you or the client like and not worry about whether it's loud enough at 7 o'clock position on the volume control of the Program director's NAD system.
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I think you can still do that today. Although "7" is pretty low, even on a NAD system.
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Do you think you would have been as aggressive with the compressor and ended up with as "loud" a prelimiter signal then as now?
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In terms of my limiter test, I probably had a blistering 0.5 to 1dB of total compression. The mixer? Well, let's just say he isn't afraid of it. Then we add some of my magical, secret, EQ technics, and viola!
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I'm only asking a philosophical question... and I think it's a good one, if it can be answered.
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If a limiter gain-reduces and no one hears it, do I still exist?
DC
