Postby lukpac » Thu Dec 04, 2003 8:50 pm
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1525465
NPR's Rick Karr reports on the role of the mastering engineer in the conversion of old recordings to compact disc.
Some of the commentary is a bit off, and some things had me scratching my head (about the new Dylan stuff being narrowed, for example), but Calbi hits the nail on the head about "louder" CDs. Check it out.
"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD
