XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: MrT@home   
      
   > Mike Rivers wrote:   
    > "Pro Audio" doesn't call the shots. It's the suppliers of   
    > program material to the consumers that do. They're the ones   
    > who can do things that earn them more money. All the   
    > engineer can do is either follow instructions of those   
    > paying him and stay in business, or follow his heart,   
    > conscience, and good taste and get a little less, or less   
    > profitable, work.   
      
   Yep, if you want a good example of how sad it has become, grab the new Katy   
   Perry song "California Gurls" and open it into your wave editor of choice,   
   and have a look at just how badly compressed, clipped and grossly distorted   
   the waveforms are for a million selling record these days. It's nothing new   
   of course, the same was being done with Madonna, Brittany Spears etc.   
   However I didn't think it could get worse, and yet it has. As the   
   performance level of all the studio equipment used has increased, the   
   quality of the finished recordings has markedly decreased. :-(   
   It's not all due to incompetence of course, but unfortunately a lot of it is   
   if they can't get a similar result without so much distortion. I know many   
   recording/mastering engineers who can!   
      
   MrT.   
      
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