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^ That's not what "loudness" means in this thread, but you carry on.
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Points: 18005 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 17:32
Hi,
 
Dean ... it would be nice if you were not acting like some superior being that is putting down someone for being stupid, or not seeing, or understanding the whole thing.
 
For an Admin, you are showing a not very nice example.
 
I would gladly subtract what I wrote, if you were honest enough to explain it ... but since you are not, and are assuming that everyone else is stupid and would never understand ... I'll gladly leave you to your views!
 
Quite on par with the "progressive" views of many of your friends ... they know it all and the rest of the people are stupid and could not possibly see or know anything ... because they don't adhere to the "definition" and the wording! How socialist of you!
 
Sorry to sound angry, and it is not designed to be so, but this attitude that I post simply to be mean and hack your comments is not true at all, and I find it sad that you think automatically that I am trying to break up the discussion.


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Does anyone feel like they're....



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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
Dean ... it would be nice if you were not acting like some superior being that is putting down someone for being stupid, or not seeing, or understanding the whole thing.
 
For an Admin, you are showing a not very nice example.
 
I would gladly subtract what I wrote, if you were honest enough to explain it ... but since you are not, and are assuming that everyone else is stupid and would never understand ... I'll gladly leave you to your views!
 
Quite on par with the "progressive" views of many of your friends ... they know it all and the rest of the people are stupid and could not possibly see or know anything ... because they don't adhere to the "definition" and the wording! How socialist of you!
 
Sorry to sound angry, and it is not designed to be so, but this attitude that I post simply to be mean and hack your comments is not true at all, and I find it sad that you think automatically that I am trying to break up the discussion.
No need to get angry, it is all explained in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war 
 
It is not about bands being loud, or playing loud, it is a production technique used in the mastering of recording tracks. Even without prior knowledge or reading of Wikipedia article, all this is evident from reading the opening post and those that replied to it..
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 18:56
^He couldn't see what he was reading because this thread was turned up too much.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 9869 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 21:36
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

^He couldn't see what he was reading because this thread was turned up too much.


LOL LOL LOL



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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

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It has always been like that, and one of the greatest falacies in the old days was that there were too many bands that were simply loud, and they did not have the music to support it ... but stoned, or with a drink or two, you get some ear ringing off it, that makes you feel like you are totally stoned when you leave and that has always been a point/stipulation for a lot of rock bands whose music was questionable in the first place.
 
The loudest i have ever been to? ...
 
The Rolling Stones and I walked out! And htey were out of tune.
 
Others that were loud:
 
-- Hawkwind (Space 1999 tour), and we left before the conclusion ... the Hall was too small for that loudness.
-- Deep Purple/Leon Russell ... Long Beach Arena ... it was by far the worst concert I have ever seen and DP were ridiculous and lousy and not worth it. I still don't think they should ever be considered "progressive" ... they were also one of the bands that were about "loud" with lots of vaccuousness with it.
-- Black Sabbath ... Hollywood Paladium with Nazareth. So loud that Ozzie couldn't be heard ... and you know that is a real oxymoron!
 
In some ways, Robert Fripp predicted this and said something about it, and it is what "21st Century Schizoid Man" is all about and the guitar and saxophone parts out front are the outburts that bordered on senseless and simply noisy and attention getting ... with nothing behind it ... however, in the end, Robert did not foresee that what he and the album stood for, was a perfect picture of the time and place, and how some people were so confused that no one got or understood his album ... but the music was cool and everyone liked ... which is exactly on par with the loudness mentality in most popular bands.
 
Bands like Amon Duul 2 tried to make fun of the loudness and blow it out of town ... unffortunately they were never really able to blow out an audience, except on one album in London, which is more of a statement about the difficulty in their music, than it is about anything else. They never did "Mozambique" in concert, or "La Krautoma" so they would get a chance to blow out an audience out loud. And sadly, Scorpions made fun of AD2, with the song "Fly To The Rainbow" which was the complete reversal of "Apocaliptyc Bore".
 
 
 
moshkito,
Although I understand where you are coming from but I think the OP was not thinking of loudness from a live performance perspective........My one question is your last statement. Fly To the Rainbow is one of my favorite Scorpions albums and songs, I am intrigued at your comparison. I don't own that AD2 album......but to me the lyrics Uli Jon Roth wrote for FTtR were about finding, looking for that pot of gold, the journey. Now there certainly was still some of that psychy/artsy/krautrocky feel to their 2nd album as in Lonesome Crow as the lyrics are kinda all over the place. Maybe some of that is just the Scorps still struggling early on to write, sing in english....not sure.
 
Is there some interview or article that compares Fly To the Rainbow and Apocalyptic Bore?


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Points: 1601 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 12:21
Loudness does not equal dynamic range.  Dynamic range is what is getting killed here, if it was only the maximum volume you'd simply change the volume.  Some people need to think before they post.  
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 12:28
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

 
Is there some interview or article that compares Fly To the Rainbow and Apocalyptic Bore?
Both tracks are available on You Tube, you can compare them for yourself.
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Points: 18005 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 03 2011 at 14:52
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Although I understand where you are coming from but I think the OP was not thinking of loudness from a live performance perspective........My one question is your last statement. Fly To the Rainbow is one of my favorite Scorpions albums and songs, I am intrigued at your comparison. I don't own that AD2 album......but to me the lyrics Uli Jon Roth wrote for FTtR were about finding, looking for that pot of gold, the journey. Now there certainly was still some of that psychy/artsy/krautrocky feel to their 2nd album as in Lonesome Crow as the lyrics are kinda all over the place. Maybe some of that is just the Scorps still struggling early on to write, sing in english....not sure.
 
Is there some interview or article that compares Fly To the Rainbow and Apocalyptic Bore?
 
Only Guy Guden of Space Pirate Radio fame played these back to back more than once ... and of course I had the albums as this 2nd album by Scorpions is very good and not the stuff they went on to doing later. But the lyrics in the title song and the lyrics in AD2's song ... are quite a contrast ... like brother/sister nagging each other!
 
The loudness thing though has always come from the recording side of it ... and the digital allows for some more "loudness" that you could not do on tape before.
 
It is pretty clear, and visible in any EQ chart, or visual in a DAW that some frequencies go up higher than others ... and the idea is easy ... compress the one at the top and bring all the others up ... and yes, it's gonna be loud ... and has been like that for some time, and it's funny that it is thought of as something that only happened recently in the Wiki article, when it has been an issue for 40 years, even for reviewers and folks like us.
 
There was an article one time, and I wish I had kept it, but it made for good TP when I needed it badly, and I think it was NME and the discussion was about the loudness in some bands, and I think it was either Ozzie or Geezer that said ... oh no ... we like to make sure the other instruments are loud too! (something similar) and in the end, to my ears a lot of music that was getting "popular" was doing just that and one of the reasons why I did not think that Deep Purple was that progressive or original. But they were not the only ones.
 
Does it make an album, or music better? ... I don't think so ... but it does create some interesting images and often adds to the whole "sound" that one did not expect ... and as such it would be a valuable process to study and work with ... but I'm not sure that at 60 too many of us want to go visit the threshold of pain anywhere at 120 decibals because some band knows they can compress the sound of this or that and bring up the others ... which many metal bands are doing, and my neighbor (a recording artist) had the same issue with a metal band he asked me about ... what I thought. I was not about to say that the band did not have it, because they did, and obviously knew what they were doing ... but sadly, what they wanted to do with their material would ... actually hurt the obvious musicianship that was under it ... but it was not my call to decide on that and I would not decide against the band's views and desires for their music.
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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 03 2011 at 15:04
Diagonal's only album up to date is very highly rated here and surely it's not bad but in my opinion it's one that suffers from it.
Anyone sharing this opinion?
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I hate this trend. Some recent remasters even do it to old albums, effectively castrating them of their upper registers. Check out this review of Monk Alone for a typical example.
More recently, the latest Maiden album seriously suffers from this problem. Except in this case, there's no way to get the original non-cropped version.
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There was a rumour on the net, a while ago, that Rush were due back in the studio to remix Vapor Trails to correct the damage from digital distortion. I am not sure about the damage as a result of over-compressed audio. 
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You need better audio equipment. Not anything to break the bank but atleat to let you hear Vapor Trails the right way.
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Originally posted by fuyuakiworld fuyuakiworld wrote:

You need better audio equipment. Not anything to break the bank but atleat to let you hear Vapor Trails the right way.
The best equipment in the world cannot correct distortion that is present in the recording,m if anything better equipment will make it more noticable.
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I think the only album I have that has gained anything from being turned up to the max - is The Stooges´ Raw Power. Iggy and the air-raid siren Bruce Dickinson remastered it to sound the way it was supposed to, and it truly feels brutal beyond anything I´ve ever heard before.
Vapor Trails sounds like it was recorded in a vacuum less airport, but hey that´s just me...  
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If the music is too loud, you're TOO OLD 
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Originally posted by Kashmir75 Kashmir75 wrote:

If the music is too loud, you're TOO OLD 
If you think loudness means LOUD, then Wheels On The Bus is your favourite song.
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Originally posted by Kashmir75 Kashmir75 wrote:

If the music is too loud, you're TOO OLD 

Music should be produced to sound good, and it should be up to the end user if they want to turn the volume up or not. I'm in my 20's, and I like to listen to loud music. But over-compressed music just sounds terrible and headache-inducing.
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