bonzodog Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Just listened to a great documentary on radio 4 called Compression vs Art. All about how compression is used in the music industry for both sonic reasons and to reduce file size. Plenty of examples where they show the same song in compressed and uncompressed formats. Well worth a listen on catch up. I would recommend listening through decent speakers or headphones though. It's 30 mins long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowieBass Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Thanks for this - I'll have a listen to it. Link here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tvgp1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewisK1975 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Cool - I'll have a listen later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planer Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 That looks very interesting, thanks. Will have a butchers later :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Just gave it a listen,thanks for the heads up. Thought it was interesting but it came dangerously close to implying that compression (of both kinds) is inherently a bad thing, rather than just misuse of compression being a bad thing. They didn't make it clear enough that a high res mp3 is all but indistinguishable from a CD, it's low res that is the real problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgraff Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 [quote name='planer' timestamp='1452172676' post='2947231'] That looks very interesting, thanks. Will have a butchers later :-) [/quote] Pedant alert. Unless you are just looking at the webpage and not listening, you won't have a butchers'. Ahhh - that feels better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planer Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 [quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1452199848' post='2947614'] Pedant alert. Unless you are just looking at the webpage and not listening, you won't have a butchers'.[/quote] *slaps forehead* - of course! Doh :-) I should have said 'I'll have a goosey' instead ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandad Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb14/articles/loudness-war.htm"]http://www.soundonso...oudness-war.htm[/url] Quite a long article and detailed. Edited January 7, 2016 by grandad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrismanbass Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 the irony being that everything gets compressed for radio anyway when broadcast............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dincz Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 A pity they chopped and changed between volume compression and data compression without clearly differentiating them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthedog Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 [quote name='Chrismanbass' timestamp='1452216707' post='2947810'] the irony being that everything gets compressed for radio anyway when broadcast............ [/quote] Apart from Radio 3 I believe. Certainly they never used DRC in the past. I enjoyed the programme although there was nothing new in it for me as a former audiophile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 It was a really interesting listen. Though they never used the obvious populist example of what compression can do as quoted by mums, dads and grandparents up and down the land... "Why are the adverts so much bl**dy louder than the rest of the TV programmes...? Gives me a flippin' 'eadache!" Made me think back to the first time I listened to Rush's Vapour Trails album. Now there was a tiring album to listen to. The remixed and remastered version didn't completely undo the damage but it was a much better listen and showed what a mixing and mastering dog's breakfast the original was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrismanbass Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 [quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1452256842' post='2948115'] Apart from Radio 3 I believe. Certainly they never used DRC in the past. I enjoyed the programme although there was nothing new in it for me as a former audiophile. [/quote] Radio 3 definitely do having been responsible for overseeing a few OB things from the venue I work in but they certainly don't compress as much as other radio stations in the same genre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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