The [COMPRESSED] history of music mastering
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Loudness War in Music
By modern standards, never mind by Nirvana is quite a quiet record. But nobody ever complained that it didn't sound loud enough because they just crank it up. By the end of the millennium, the loudness war had spiraled out of control. Music was being hyper-compressed by mastering engineers and again by radio broadcasters. MP3's appeared and music got compressed even more.
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