Loudness Wars!

SoundGuys Podcast

Since digital music became popular, audio engineers have been pushing the idea that louder is better. Unfortunately, that just isn’t true. As music gets louder, fine details within the music become undetectable, and the experience is ruined. This all came to a head in 2008 when the game Guitar Hero had to remix some tracks for the game. Most notably, was Metallica’s Death Magnetic and suddenly, the music sounded better. Since then, it seems the loudness was have come to an end, but we wanted to take a moment to remember this fascinating sonic phenomenon...and pray it never returns.

SoundGuys is:

Chris Thomas - @CThomasTechLily Katz - @KatzGameAdam Molina - @AdamLukas17

Produced by:

Adam Doud - @DeadTechnology

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