[MLA] Playback level for craft committees

[Bob Katz]

What a bunch of B.S.! The first thing they should do is loudness 
normalize all the playbacks. After that there could be a legitimate 
preference to turn up the rockers and turn down the ballads, which makes 
the whole job of judging the craft to be VERY difficult anyway. But at 
least the crushed and smashed stuff would self-reveal, although the 
ballads and acoustic numbers would have an unfair acoustic advantage  :-(

How can you solve that in the context of a craft committee?   One way 
(which no one would accept) would be to have a mastering engineer that 
everyone trusts adjust the playback level of the discs. But that won't fly.


Bob



On 2/17/16 3:22 PM, Bob Ludwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> FYI:
> I spoke with my colleague, Adam Ayan, who said the co-chairs of the craft committee arrive the previous day and set up and check the sound system.  They go thru the stack of nominated discs and write down what they think is s good playback level and they start with that.  Then during the playback for the committee they will change it if people complain.
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