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U2 & the loudness war [video]

Topic started 11 years ago by jheath in General U2 talk. Since then 3 posts have been made by 3 users.

jheath

11 years

Here's an interesting video showing the differences between the volume/dynamic ranges of various singles recorded from Streets right up to Invisible. And what he's says about possibly how the new album might sound like.
LikeASong

11 years

Thanks for sharing! Really interesting, well chosen songs, well done video. It lacks a bit of tech explanations imo, but it's great anyway. Luckily, most musicians and producers (and more and more music fans per day) are realizing that loudness war is/was actually killing music quality. I hope more and more people realize it sooner than later so this madness can stop asap!

I saw an interesting comparison between different issues of Streets, straight from the original Joshua CD, then the Best of 80-90 edit, the U2·18 edit and then the Joshua Remaster version from 2007... I'll see if I can dig it out, not sure if it was a video or just a written article.
iTim

11 years

Dynamic Range Database

You can't search by 'U2', it must be too short. For the albums I've looked at, it seems to fall in line with what I think. Check Oasis's Be Here Now for example. Or just Oasis in general, it's a page of red.