"Tear It Down" - Making-of TSL4 Theme Song - Page 3
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HawaiianPig
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Gatsbizzle
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mindjames
Israel320 Posts
On August 19 2012 09:27 Anathallo wrote: Long time lurker, first time poster, registered because this annoys the arse outta me. Good song, but why do you (like 90% of all engineer and producers these days) compress your music into oblivion? When you learned how to master recordings, were you taught that making everything louder, then compressing things to just below the noise ceiling made things sound better? Why don't people understand that dynamic range = better music? Mastering is something that's been done in popular music for ages now, mainly for consistency - people don't want to fiddle with volume levels every time they change the song, and neither do radio stations for that matter. That's why mastered songs are also considered "radio-ready". If your song sounds "weak" compared to the last one, people will lose interest, without even realizing why(!). It would be naive to disregard these things and try to promote more dynamic range in music - it's not gonna happen. At least not in Pop and Rock. Moreover, mastering does not entirely eliminate dynamic range. And finally, it does not take away the songwriter's ability to create lows and highs within a song - which is the main advantage of broad dynamic range. If you enjoy the broader dynamics, there's plenty of classical music that does not have any compression on it whatsoever. | ||
Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
It was a cool little homage :> | ||
SiDX
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chris5180
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StarStruck
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On August 19 2012 10:31 ColdLava wrote: Had to upgrade my soundcloud account, should be fixed now! Thanks for support guys! - Jimmy I had no idea this is what you do lmao. Good times man. | ||
ropumar
Brazil111 Posts
The whole introduction is bad. Sounds like teen pop rock mediocrity with high pitch voice. TSL3 hand draw portraits were way better. | ||
mahkan
United States153 Posts
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Majynx
United States1431 Posts
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bittman
Australia8759 Posts
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Redlol
United States181 Posts
Color me impressed. The work of you and your band is extremely impressive, I am very happy that you guys have chosen to associate your music with TSL4, and you guys should be very proud of your work. It's amazing. | ||
Kitty4Cat
Canada56 Posts
Thank you! That song is awesome! I just advertised it on my fb/twitter pages so people would know about it!! :D | ||
Elem
Sweden4717 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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JustPassingBy
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caneras
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LuckyGnomTV
Russian Federation367 Posts
p.s. TSL3 intros were much much much MUCH better | ||
Ezaura_au
114 Posts
On August 19 2012 11:18 rauk wrote: i don't think you understand what dynamic range is... having soft and loud parts in songs is a big part of making them sound interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism That page also lists quite a lot of my favourite music. Yeah I'm pretty sure I know what dynamic range is. Humans dislike inconsistency in volume by nature, it is one of the fears we are born with - the other is the fear of falling. | ||
tschecko
Andorra39 Posts
On August 19 2012 12:00 RezJ wrote: Mastering is something that's been done in popular music for ages now, mainly for consistency - people don't want to fiddle with volume levels every time they change the song, and neither do radio stations for that matter. That's why mastered songs are also considered "radio-ready". If your song sounds "weak" compared to the last one, people will lose interest, without even realizing why(!). It would be naive to disregard these things and try to promote more dynamic range in music - it's not gonna happen. At least not in Pop and Rock. Moreover, mastering does not entirely eliminate dynamic range. And finally, it does not take away the songwriter's ability to create lows and highs within a song - which is the main advantage of broad dynamic range. If you enjoy the broader dynamics, there's plenty of classical music that does not have any compression on it whatsoever. exactly this. also a too high dynamic range is bad too and going on the nerves while too much compressed stuff gets boring soon and makes ears tired | ||
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