Why Today’s Music Sucks

Aside from the fact that so many singers today can’t sing. They are “fixed” in the studio (hence Britney Spears doesn’t sing live). Many so called bands today are just using samples and computers to repeat notes. Leaving out the organic, natural feel of real playing. But there’s more. 

This video explains how the producers today ruin the sound of music.

This article goes into more details.

I noticed that a lot of today’s music, beside being atonal junk, it has this extreme noise level becaus eso many clubs play everything at the maximum loudness. I really hate that. Every time I get invited to a party at a club, I want to leave as soon as they start playing “music.” And I’m a music lover.

Rolling Stone documents the decline of the music business. They only have themselves to blame. Downloading isn’t the problem. 

Compression really hit the big time the year when Santana won the Grammy, and their album had a dynamic range of less than 0.5dB.  Suddenly there was this lemming-like rush to compress the crap out of everything.
Highly compressed music is exhausting to listen to, as well as having no dynamic texture.
I spent a couple of days remastering Rush’s last album, Vapor Trails, which had an average dynamic range of 0.9dB.  Using various tools and plugins in Audition, I was able to get a 7dB range, and managed to get rid of 90% of the clipping at the same time.
But I shouldn’t have to, dammit!
The music industry is full of bloody fools, and I won’t weep a single tear as they go under.

Posted by  on  06/29  at  02:24 PM
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