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DYNAMICS: WHAT A CONCEPT . . .
Congrats on another very useful and interesting issue (04/09). Ail of the articles were Informative and helpful (as usual), and it's great to keep seeing new and fresh ideas still coming along, I really liked the hum removal article, as well as the home mastering tools roundup.
As a big fan of Lindsey Buckingham's work with the Big Mac (as well as his solo work- especially his newest Gift of Screws), I was very happy to see him featured on the cover.
Even better, I'm thrilled to see that Will Romano touched on what might be seen as an early victory in the "loudness wars." I'm referring to the discussion of the dynamics in one of my favorite tracks on Gift of Screws- "Love Runs Deeper." In these days of overprocessed and crushed audio, this track just blew my mind the first time I heard it. I did a double take and had to make sure something wasn't "wrong" with my system. I went as far as ripping the track and putting it up on my DAW to see what I was hearing. And there it was: real, inarguable dynamic range! No i/ber-compressed 2x4 piece of solid lumber on the timeline; there are waveforms! The intro, verses, and some of the solo are actually lower in level (by several dB) than the chorus-...