Dynamic range database

Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen. Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Dynamic range database browser. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

One of the subjects of the thread on "Digital vs. Anyone can query this database for their favorite CDs, SACDs, and vinyl rips to disk to see if their particular version of a recording has been subjected to Loudness War compression techniques. The DR database allows its users to measure their own disks if they happen to not already be in the database using a freeware downloadable application called DR Offline Meter. You can then upload the results of their analysis of their own disks so that other may share with others and expand the database. However, when the preamp gain is increased, the recording comes alive.

Dynamic range database

Discussion in ' Music and Recordings ' started by landroni , Mar 7, Super Best Audio Friends. Read these "rules" AND introduce yourself before your first post. A healthy approach to understanding measurements Being true to what the artists intended. How to measure the Dynamic Range of recordings Discussion in ' Music and Recordings ' started by landroni , Mar 7, Tags: compression dynamic range measurements. Now that SBAF is officially in obsessive mood about Dynamic Range, loudness wars, compression and stuff , I thought it would be a good idea to give people some pointers on how they can estimate the DR of their local album collection. In case you've been living under a rock in audiophilia, the go-to reference for these things is the Dynamic Range Database. And now for the instructions, by platform. Linux There are several possibilities here, some worse than the others.

About the time that CDs came out the studios began to use near field monitors for recording and mixing.

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Dynamic range database

Discussion in ' Music Corner ' started by wwaldmanfan , Jan 6, Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Location: NJ. The Loudness Wars have intensified.

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Location: Aurora, CO. I have developed several processing "stacks" several cascaded processor functions that accomplish several different goals. New posts. Latest activity. The analogy I might make is to photography. Join the conversation You can post now and register later. Like x 1 List. What I find more disturbing as I plug away at my collection using the DR offline meter software is: An absolutely positive correlation between albums that I know sound tough to my ears fatiguing and clipped recording levels. Install the app. Most of my audiophile test disks and recordings all sound dull until turned up, then they come to life. In response to the loudness war CDs: I'm buying digital disks that have more dynamic range by using the DR Database as a guide. Clear editor. DiabloG , nosliw , tin ears and 1 other person like this.

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Nick G , Aug 14, Veni Vidi Vici , Jan 6, To use it is very easy. Media New media Search media. I noticed that too. Search titles only. Search titles and first posts only. FlexFantastic , May 6, Forums New posts Search forums. What I find more disturbing as I plug away at my collection using the DR offline meter software is: An absolutely positive correlation between albums that I know sound tough to my ears fatiguing and clipped recording levels.