Wow! A website dedicated to bringing back dynamics into modern recordings. I applied there with Tiki Traveling. Hopefully they accept that recording. I will do my best to support the project. I recorded TTWKK in the consciousness of making an anti-loudness record. Being mainly for soundtrack use, I could more easily fight the temptation of being competitive with music recorded for radio, music-tv or a teenager’s music collection, but aimed for the late fifties/early sixties hifi stereo sound instead. Think Command LPs with Bauhaus covers (Enoch Light’s label). I mixed and mastered for a good, enduring listening experience.
These records say: Turn me up! Your stereo deserves being turned up as much as your guitar amp or vehicle. Simply sounds better. Dials are more precise up the scale, too.
I wrote about the so called loudness wars earlier on this blog.
Quote from Turn Me Up!
Turn Me Up!™ is a non-profit music industry organization
campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records. To be clear, it’s not our goal to discourage loud records; they are, of course, a valid choice for many artists. We simply want to make the choice for a more dynamic record an option for artists. …
Turn Me Up! | Bringing Dynamics Back To Music
Here’s another link to an article on over-compression of music.
- Loudness Wars Explained
- Consumer EQ
- Fatu Hiva – Kahuna Kawentzmann Exotica
- Arthur Lyman Re-Releases
- Sven Kirsten on Luxuria.com this Friday
