Susuto

“and if they didn’t compress my audio, and I couldn’t hear a damn thing until the guitarist broke 30 strings for a hard chucking part of their riff.”

That is horseshit. How, exactly, did we enjoy music in our cars before it was all destroyed by dynamic compression from the late ’90s on? Seems we got on just fine.

Furthermore, don’t destroy the music forever in the mastering process. If people were clamoring for dynamic compression, WHY ISN’T THAT FUNCTION BUILT INTO PLAYBACK DEVICES?

Oh wait a minute: IT WAS. I have a 1996 Ford disc player in my car that sports an interesting button. That button says COMPRESS.

Which illustrates the most infuriating and depressing part of the cravenly stupid LOUDNESS WAR: It’s totally unnecessary. No one benefits. No one asked for it. And no one will ever get the lay person or record-company assholes to understand that dynamic compression represents the ruination of all music, past and present. As they “remaster” their back catalogs, we lose.

Any discussion of a musical medium’s fidelity is moot, now that all recordings are systematically destroyed.