Hey Guys! Just wanted to chime back in and say that Kate Bush's double album Aerial from this past year is a wonderful, NOT loud, not overly compressed record. Quite refershing when instead of loading in a new CD and getting your ears blasted off right away even with just say, a vocal and...
Wow! Adam! Wow! Anyone want to here raw mixes uncompresed and unmastered just click on my MySpace link below. I have 4 songs I recorded myself that are (hopefully) mixed well level-wise but unmastered and uncompressed... 16trk. I am not selling anything so this isn't a cheap come-on ad...
Oh and btw, wanna hear a great CD with minimal compression? Universal Mother by Sinead O'Connor. When she suddenly sings louder or the band gets louder, G A S P!!!! it gets louder!!! ;)
Yep, just got the new Sarah McLachlan Wintersong CD, (don't laugh! She is one of my fave artists!) and it is one of the most over the top compressed, L O U D and mp3 ready CDs I have ever listened to. There is absolutely NO dynamic range whatsoever! My Harman Kardon CD recorder has a level meter...