Recent content by MindlessPieces

Being a dick again I see. It started with me saying "My guess as to the X Factor. It was a victim of the Loudness war. With Compression being overused in the industry as a whole during that period to make the album LOUD in an attempt to increase sales, this caused the natural drums to be...

You are a complete dick. Here is how a nice conversation would go. Me - I think the drums sound bad on The X Factor because they might be compensating for the compression. Nice person - Why do you think that X Factor is compressed? Me - There are original versions of it with a DR of 8...

Explain why the website colours the 8 in red. What does red mean?

It shows that that version wasn't compressed. Irrelevant. There are 6 1995 versions of The X factor in that list. Only one of them has good DR of 12, it's green, green for good. the other 5 have DR of 8, 9 and 10, 8 is red, red is bad, 9 and 10 are orange, orange is iffy. With the...

In the context of the loudness war, they compress the music to get the average volume to be close to the top volume (i.e. the squash the Dynamic Range). They then increase the volume of the whole piece to be close to the maximum the CD format allows, and that allows them to get the volume of the...

Here is something useful that I've found. It shows visually the volumes of the songs of Iron Maiden songs. You can see visually here that Virtual XI is heavily compressed. That's from 1998. and pretty much every Maiden album since. This video shows The X Factor as being OK. But, I still...

No, it doesn't prove what you think it proves. Being compressed doesn't mean they can't then go back and make certain sections less loud. It is trivial to select a selection of a song track and to reduce the volume. No bad faith there at all. You however are unable to see the serious flaw in...

I've never compared the cost of producing albums now vs in previous eras. What you've done here is a non sequitur

Your entitlement is amusing to me. You seem to overlook the fact that you alone buying a single album doesn't cover the costs of producing a high quality sounding album. The Band is entitled to release whatever they want, you are entitled to buy (or not buy) what is on offer. That's as far as...

No that doesn't prove it at all. Just because Hitler was really, really, really bad. It can't be used as evidence that Charles Manson wasn't bad. Are you living in fantasy land? How crushed did I claim TXF was? What is your point? If you really want to know what my understanding of the...

But back in the land of reality, we all know they have had to adjust the way they calculate if an album is gold or platinum now, because if they stuck to the old standards pretty much no album would reach the bar. We are living in a fantasy world if we think album sales haven't been affected by...

Most people listening to Iron Maiden's music don't buy the songs. Since it costs a heap to produce quality sounding music, and since the ROI isn't there, Maiden are right not to sink masses of money into the recordings. As consumers of music (collectively) we get what we deserve. If people...

Since "the fans" download the songs for free and don't buy the albums, do they really deserve high quality (at the cost of the band) recordings?

Who claimed that happened? Yes, that's what I said, well, they don't have to brickwall it. But yes the compression takes all frequencies and gets them all to the same volume. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/1858 Nice. If you can't win an argument then resort to adhominems. The...

Everyone has the right to complain. About 98% of the content on this forum is people complaining.