The Loudness Wars Continue One of the most frustrating things about music today is the extreme failure of the supposed “engineer” in charge of recording tracks, which insist on pushing each instrument to the saturation point. This tactic, argued and discussed all over the internet (Google “loudness wars”) and well demonstrated in this video, removes the dynamics of music and sets everything loud. It’s a failure of massive proportions. One of the things that almost always turns me off of a video track or group is the obvious use of this musical saturation in the mix. You can take a group with…

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