The Loudness War - demonstration on YouTube
May 17th, 2007 by dizplayThe problem of over-compression is adaptable to DnB only to some degree, but this video at Create Digital Music shows up niceley what is standard treatment nowadays to most music.
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I haven’t seen the video, but I’d like to submit as a worst possible example Front Line Assembly’s album “Artificial Soldier“. I’ve loved all I’ve heard of FLA’s work… until now. I couldn’t really even listen through it, the compression ruined any production values that would otherwise have been distinguishable.
Part of the problem here is that the public is somewhat ignorant of what constitutes a good sound; you need only find a teenage metalhead in America and chances are they’re not bothered by a sound that’s been crushed by limiting as long as it’s “loud, dude!!!” (I’m not dissing here, this is most of my friends I’m describing :P ). The youth market likes music loud, and engineers or artists who live off their music are more than happy to give that to them — after all, the bills must be paid somehow.
Excuse my atrocious generalizations. :)