You are right on the money here. Most quality recordings have been processed by a skilled mastering engineer, with a acoustic treated room built for exactly reproducing the sound of the recorded mix. These engineers spend many hours with the most expensive and best sound processors available.
When the track is finished some kid with a X-fi card is going to "enhance" the sound with his $90 card? I don't think so.
I have an RME multiface audiointerface and studio monitors to reproduce the sound exactly like the mastering engineer wants it to sound, not the sound processed through some cheap ass DSP system made to be as cheap as possible for mass production.
I am a home-recorder who does mixes and (amateur) masters of the songs in my studio. At first I was all for the dynamics in a song, with some subtle compression. But every time a song of mine was played in a play list, it just isn't as punchy as all the "professionally" mastered stuff. Everybody was asking me why my songs sounded quieter.
The truth is only a very small portion of the people care for real audio quality and the rest are easy to be convinced by apparent loudness. I did some tests with the musicians I work with. I played the exact same mix twice, but one mix was limited (a tool to make the mix sound louder). Everyone chooses the louder one as sounding better. So nowadays I admit to being guilty of supporting the loudness war, not because a like it, but because I have too.
In WWII the Germans introduced the mandatory ID card here in Belgium and in several other countries too. With the liberation of Belgium our government decided to keep the ID card as they thought is was a good idea.
A few years ago the "Eid" was introduced, which is an ID card with limited personal information (name, address & picture) digitally stored onto the chip. Till this day I am not aware of any mayor privacy rights being broken, or identities being stolen or whatnot. Mind you I am the typical paranoia person when it comes to privacy and anonymity.
You can check the official website here: http://eid.belgium.be/en/navigation/12000/index.html
Actually the software to read the cards is open-source and you can make a cheap entry check system with only a card-reader, an embedded system and a database server.
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You are right on the money here. Most quality recordings have been processed by a skilled mastering engineer, with a acoustic treated room built for exactly reproducing the sound of the recorded mix. These engineers spend many hours with the most expensive and best sound processors available.
When the track is finished some kid with a X-fi card is going to "enhance" the sound with his $90 card? I don't think so.
I have an RME multiface audiointerface and studio monitors to reproduce the sound exactly like the mastering engineer wants it to sound, not the sound processed through some cheap ass DSP system made to be as cheap as possible for mass production.
I am a home-recorder who does mixes and (amateur) masters of the songs in my studio. At first I was all for the dynamics in a song, with some subtle compression. But every time a song of mine was played in a play list, it just isn't as punchy as all the "professionally" mastered stuff. Everybody was asking me why my songs sounded quieter.
The truth is only a very small portion of the people care for real audio quality and the rest are easy to be convinced by apparent loudness. I did some tests with the musicians I work with. I played the exact same mix twice, but one mix was limited (a tool to make the mix sound louder). Everyone chooses the louder one as sounding better. So nowadays I admit to being guilty of supporting the loudness war, not because a like it, but because I have too.
In WWII the Germans introduced the mandatory ID card here in Belgium and in several other countries too. With the liberation of Belgium our government decided to keep the ID card as they thought is was a good idea.
A few years ago the "Eid" was introduced, which is an ID card with limited personal information (name, address & picture) digitally stored onto the chip. Till this day I am not aware of any mayor privacy rights being broken, or identities being stolen or whatnot. Mind you I am the typical paranoia person when it comes to privacy and anonymity.
You can check the official website here: http://eid.belgium.be/en/navigation/12000/index.html
Actually the software to read the cards is open-source and you can make a cheap entry check system with only a card-reader, an embedded system and a database server.
Don't you get it they were waiting for Christmas!