On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM, <ny6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:01:27PM +0100, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 20 May 2012, at 10:41, Jes?s J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> > ... >> > Specially for bands like led zeppelin, I would just use the second method >> > (adjust while playing, rather than while ripping). Someday you will want >> > to hear the whole disk as it was intended, ? >> >> I agree that adjust-whilst-playing is the best method, but we won't be >> hearing this music as intended for a while. >> >> All digital Led Zep releases (i.e. including all CDs) are notoriously poorly >> remastered, with excessive gain applied. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war >> >> So far they have deteriorated with each remastering / re-release. >> >> Huge threads on the Steve Hoffman forums discussing this, if you want to >> cork sniff. >> >> Stroller. > > I can attest to this - Led Zep II - awful. An older disk, not even a > remaster. I can only play it at moderate levels - it loses all it's dynamic > range at higher levels. A big disappointment.
Dipping only slightly further offtopic, are they still pressing vinyl? I believe there are a number of tools for automatically splitting and transcoding audio input from a vinyl player. -- :wq
