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What would be your first decree should you manage to conquer the world?
next thing that would happen is that people would vote me out and hang me... but hey... that's life
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GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
Introduce droit de seigneur but with the twist that if I missed the "first night" due to my not being world ruler then I can take a replacement night at a time of my choosing.
I have a friend intent on conquering the world with the aid of orbital lasers. He's always maintained that his first act would be to put "lace holes" on "The Boot."
I'd definitely force every song recording ever to record at the same base volume.
I vehemently hate having to tweak the volume up and down every time a new song plays.
You're referring to mastering, rather than recording. This is the process of applying compression to the track to reduce the peaks in amplitude, effectively bringing up the levels of the quieter bits so that the whole track has a consistent level. This is widely considered a commercial imperative so that a song has a 'competitive' volume for radio play. However, the technique is also criticised for destroying the dynamic range of music (the variation between loud and soft bits).
Basically the more aggressive the compression, the 'louder' the track is heard. This is why TV adverts are always/usually louder than the TV program itself. The 'quieter' songs in your collection may be those where it was mastered with the aim of dynamic range rather than commercial aggression. They may also be much older tracks, from when mastering was generally less aggressive.
Clearly the world is massively overpopulated as it is, so I'd set about getting rid of any excess baggage in as efficient a manner as possible - the US would be a good place to start!
You're referring to mastering, rather than recording. This is the process of applying compression to the track to reduce the peaks in amplitude, effectively bringing up the levels of the quieter bits so that the whole track has a consistent level. This is widely considered a commercial imperative so that a song has a 'competitive' volume for radio play. However, the technique is also criticised for destroying the dynamic range of music (the variation between loud and soft bits).
Basically the more aggressive the compression, the 'louder' the track is heard. This is why TV adverts are always/usually louder than the TV program itself. The 'quieter' songs in your collection may be those where it was mastered with the aim of dynamic range rather than commercial aggression. They may also be much older tracks, from when mastering was generally less aggressive.
You're referring to mastering, rather than recording. This is the process of applying compression to the track to reduce the peaks in amplitude, effectively bringing up the levels of the quieter bits so that the whole track has a consistent level. This is widely considered a commercial imperative so that a song has a 'competitive' volume for radio play. However, the technique is also criticised for destroying the dynamic range of music (the variation between loud and soft bits).
Basically the more aggressive the compression, the 'louder' the track is heard. This is why TV adverts are always/usually louder than the TV program itself. The 'quieter' songs in your collection may be those where it was mastered with the aim of dynamic range rather than commercial aggression. They may also be much older tracks, from when mastering was generally less aggressive.
Yeah, I was aware of something like that, just didn't know if it was part of the editing rather than the recording.
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So i'll force them to master them with a dynamic range, and put whoever came out with the idea to master songs loudly to death
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