When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "In my experience there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the world of mastering, its ...

Lately I've been watching more and more details upstairs on my plasma screen (as opposed to my front projector downstairs), but my room is near my baby's room. The problem is that the quiet scenes are ...

The other day I bought a copy of Nathan Fake’s rather lovely Drowning In A Sea Of Love album. Nothing unusual about that, except that I’d first bought a copy in 2006 when it came out, and then sold it ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Compression is the most complex of all audio effects or processes available to the modern audio ...

Dynamic range compression has nothing to do with frequency response. It's a way of lowering the contrast between soft & loud sounds so that you can watch movies without disturbing the neighbors but ...

Audio quality is very important to the BBC’s audience, and unwanted loudness variations reduce the quality of the listeners’ experience. Dynamic range control applied by the broadcaster can go some ...

This story is excerpted from the Radio World ebook “Streaming Best Practices.” Few people realize that xHE-AAC, the latest generation of the AAC codec family, includes an option for dynamic-range ...

Nick Southall examines the state of play in the loudness wars in 2011 with regards to Kanye West, PJ Harvey and These New Puritans. Main photo by the author Five years on though, if I’m honest, I feel ...