The Loudness War: Can streaming finally end it?
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Introduction
In the last episode, we looked at the history of mastering. New audio technology allowed mastering engineers to make songs much louder. Artists also started trying to one-up each other with how loud their songs were. But all of this volume came at a price and music became so compressed that it lost a lot of depth.
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