They are often produced with an intended "wall of sound" effect that will usually lead to a lower dynamic range score. The sonic objective of a hard rock, metal or electronic music recording, to name three examples, is very different than that of an acoustic, classical or traditional jazz recording. IMO, a lot of it has to do with the type of music and the artistic intent.
I had JRiver analyze my entire library and I now use Volume Leveling (which also I love, dearly) and have customized the JRiver GUI to display the Dynamic Range of all of my files.īut that said, I don't agree that a lower Dynamic Range score (such as DR7 of the album we're discussing) automatically equates to poor sound quality.
I have recently become aware through experience of how important dynamic range is. Anyone who can read these please comment! Audacity only picked the first 60-100s for the spectrum charts. Here are some screenshots from Audacity on the first 2 tracks. > We wanted to be upfront with you regarding our discovery. > The file was priced at $17.98, or the price point of a 48/24 file, Rather, we made for sale what our partner label > 48/24 and then upsampled in the mastering process. However, we've discovered that this record was recorded at In fact, the file was delivered to us by the parent label as a We initially listed that title as a 192kHz/24bit > the Lorde/Pure Heroine file you purchased and downloaded from Acoustic > We're writing to inform you of a discrepancy we've discovered regarding
> Dear Acoustic Sounds Super HiRez Customer: > Subject: Important information regarding a purchase from I'll still try to post a spectrum analysis when I get a chance though, probably this week-end. A shame, I probably wouldn't have bought it if knowing so. Received an email from Acoustic Sounds, see below. Can you run it through Audacity or something and do a spectrum analysis to see if it is legit 192/24?