[MLA] Playback level for craft committees

[Thomas Lund]

Hi Bob K,

I think all Grammy tracks should be loudness normalized because that’s the new reality in delivery.

Florian did an enjoyable presentation at the Nordic Sound Symposium: Austria was the host of last year’s European Music Contest. Playback tracks from most countries were squashed and sounded worse than they could have - without coming across louder. Probably the opposite by 1-2 LU :-)

For the Grammy committee, an additional trim-down could be allowed to cope specifically with ballads, acoustic or intimate tracks.

cheers,
Thomas

> On 17/02/2016, at 23.41, Bob Katz <bobkatz at digido.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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