"(Anasthesia) Pulling Teeth" (Metallica, Kill 'Em All, 1983)
160kbps MP3 ripped with iTunes in 2016
vs.
#FLAC made with #Asunder this week
Mixed channel spectrogram with #SonicVisualiser
There's an awful lot being cut out of the MP3, and maybe you can hear it and maybe you can't. On this track, it probably doesn't make a difference. But it's a stark visual.
When I switch to the melodic range spectrogram layer, you can see WHERE the ref mix is louder. The low end is much more powerful throughout.
But there are also some short higher pitches (xylophone, I think?) arpeggiating throughout that are much louder. It's PRETTIER, but I didn't actually like how bright they were in the ref mix.
Reference mix is on top; our mix is on bottom. These are normalized to -1 dB peak, because I am specifically evaluating the mix. (If I just wanted to compare how they sounded and which I preferred, then it would make sense to normalize to perceived loudness, the default for #ffmpeg-normalize.)
Our mix has more dynamic range, prob too much. That fits _my_ tastes, but it's not what the market prefers. You can see some limiting in the ref mix, but not excessive.
Eight years tipped over turns into an infinity, 28 (A)
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Eight years tipped over turns into an infinity, 27 (A)
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Eight years tipped over turns into an infinity, 26 (A)
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Eight years tipped over turns into an infinity, 25 (A)
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Venya (he/him/dude) πΊπ¦
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Juan A. Zamarripa
