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Originally Posted by wilsonmac
To be more specific... the use of peak limiting (I'm sure many on this thread are bored by this stuff ![Smilie](images/smilies/smile.gif) ). The "limitations" of vinyl are what require it to have a unique mastering. In my experience that lends to a much more dynamic experience. This is of course not always the case, but in the last 5 years it has been more common. The music purchased in HD (24/96) and CD (16/44.1) are often the same mastering while the vinyl has been done separately. I'll have both to compare soon, and I'll let you know what I hear.
Out of the Cradle is one of the greatest mastering of any rock/pop CD I own. Good example of how squashed things have become since 1992.
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Follow-up: I ran a level-analysis tool on the WAV files ripped from the CD, and they are indeed super-squashed, almost as bad as the worst Metallica mastering I've ever heard. Even "Dancing" only has a dynamic range of 11 dB, but is just level-adjusted down about 6 dB to make it "quiet".
Most sane mastering nowadays targets avg. RMS at around -16 to -14 dB.
Maybe LB really just likes the sound of highly compressed tracks?
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