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The Loudness Wars

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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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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