By CharlesRandolph
Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:22 pm
Monotremata wrote:The L1 and L2 is what started the whole thing I think... I remember when Waves was really pushing them back in 99/2000? When you went to the site to look up their 'How to use L1/L2' tutorial, they pretty much just told you how to blow the thing up and keep it from clipping at the maximum level. That was how Waves told everyone to use it. If you weren't familiar with how a limiter worked before, you were screwed and this was your lesson. Every little pirate that grabbed the Maximizer ran straight for that 'how to' guide and look at where it got us..
The loudness war was a progressive thing, it was happening in the analog world as well. A&R would press mastering engineers to make their records louder, so they would stand out. Year after year after year. The thing is once digital files became the main format. Everyone had all their music on a ipod or mp3 player.
Genres were all mixed together, which means the recording levels, would be different as well. So Metal bands would remastered their music to be match Singer Songwriters and Jazz and Hip Hop, and so on. Now all the music is loud with no dynamic range.
Nevertheless, as I said, it's never the tool, it's the person. L1 AND L2 can sound good if the end user knows what they are doing. Some people have the skill and some don't.
Monotremata wrote:So people started throwing Brick Wall Limiters on everything. This was media wide, video games, movies, music, commercials, tv show, everything is LOUD!!!!
I still see alot of folks complaining about 2.6 but damn, Im getting work DONE! Pretty sure this **** is only going to get even better from here on out.
What do they complain about now? Not having disk streaming.