Why is most commercial music still mastered so loud even though the loudness war is effectively over?
>>107124769WHAT?!?
Most music still relies on the bad sound quality of most speakers and headphones. That "industry" works like that, it's their culture and they'll not change.Electro tends to be better (even if the music they make is slop) because they don't need to hide bad instruments, fix the drunktard bass guitarist and there's no ego conflicts during mastering
>>107124769>>>/mu/
i like this pepe
>>107124769Is is though?
>>107124769Well you still don't want to be too quiet because we all have monkey brains that perceive loud to be better. So albums aren't ever going to be as quiet as they were in like the 80s though. But most streaming platforms and shit don't allow more than like a -2 DB true peak, so luckily you can't really ear rape as hard as some albums in the 2000s did. There's really no excuse to not have a dynamic mix in this day and age though.
>>107124769The loudest songs will get the most streams
>>107124769haha OP I love froggo XD
>>107126625-2dB TP but the mix is still squashed to hell (which just means it gets turned down even more). Fucking brilliant.
>>107126920There's people that will say it sounds "fuller" if you do that.
>>107126625compression should be a setting for users to decide. if you're a retard that needs muh loud then you can press a switch that compresses it on your end only.
I genuinely hate it when songs start our too quiet.Makes me think my streaming app has crashed or my headphones lost connection.I'm not paying Deezer to serve me silence.
>>107124769>even though the loudness war is effectively over?It's not.Now, instead of competing for loudness on the radio, they're competing for loudness on Spotify or whatever other streaming service.It's still competing for loudness.
