I'm not sure if I am putting this in the right forum, so if not, i'm sorry about that.

I am doing a project for school on the loudness race. I've googled it and found many good pages on it, but knowing that there are people here who know this subject extremely well, i'd like to ask you all here if you know of any sites on the subject of the loudness race that you recommend?

Or, does anyone here know if there is something else about it that isn't generally known, or anything that should definitally be in my project?

I saw a youtube-video somewhere around here some time ago, it might be useful for a presentation or somethign like that.
I guess it could be important that the most common ways to show the effects of the loudness race, like audio editor graphs, replaygain-values and the like aren't really suitable to show the difference in dynamic range.
I think it would be a good idea to integrate suitable methods of demonstrating dynamic range.
Afaik someone tried to do something like that a few days ago, it's probably easily found somewhere in the Scientific/R&D Section.

I immediately thought of that video (if it is the same). It's a short, simple, but effective demonstration of the problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

The links in this post may also help (not followed them):

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=389684

I had these two among my bookmarks, both are quite good.

http://www.barrydiamentaudio.com/loudness.htm
http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htm

The Wikipedia article on the loudness race has a lot of useful links.

The video mentioned in previous posts is available for download here

http://www.digido.com/downloads/Loudness_War-small.mov [21,3 MB, quicktime]

I have some waveform screenshots from adobe audition to show clipping and general loudness increases (in the same song on different releases)



Ill look for that, it sounds interesting, thanks





Thats good, because I have dial up and can't use youtube that well, so downloading the video (even though it will take awhile) will be better. Thanks And the youtube page says it is just under 2 minutes, perfect for my presentation.

OMG! This video really showed me something! About 9 months ago I reripped my CDs with a lot of compression. I was looking for my music to be loud for use in my car. I had trouble hearing some tracks on my protable/FM transmitter combo. I'd been staring to regret doing this. Now I know why.

Well, I recently did a homework for university about the same subject. The Wikipedia links and of course HA helped me a lot back then. If you wish I can post the whole PDF here, or email to you, it might help, but only if you happen to speak German. (If not you could look at the footnotes though)

I enjoyed this article by a guy I have chatted to on HeadFi
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/wee...und-forever.htm

Good one, thx.