[MLA] Loudness War in New York Times

[Bob Katz]

Dear Kevin: As Eelco pointed out, in Bob Ludwig's rarefied circle, these 
kinds of abuses occur so often they are the rule rather than the 
exception. I attract many wonderful (thank goodness) Indie artists who 
specifically come to me for the quality of work that I do. So now I'm 
the exception that proves the rule. I'm very proud of a lot of the work 
that I do. I don't know how I could continue in this business if I did 
not love what I do....

And most of the popular music masters that I supply to the world fall in 
a program level range from -16 LUFS to (only occasionally) -14 LUFS. And 
the clients are buying it. I'm a very very lucky guy. I get to make the 
best sounding masters...

It's a cruel, cruel world. Very few mastering engineers are still in my 
position.


Bob K.


On 2/9/19 10:25 AM, Kevin Gross wrote:
> I was surprised to learn from Bob Ludwig's quotes that loudness 
> normalization has not been successful at stemming the loudness war. 
> Are others here in agreement with this assessment?
>
> Kevin Gross - AVA Networks
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:00 PM Grimm | Eelco <eelco at grimmaudio.com 
> <mailto:eelco at grimmaudio.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Bob and Bob,
>
>     Good that you were able to comment on the article before publication!
>
>>     Unfortunately, I gave in when I saw the 30 second version of
>>     Chinoy's graphics. I told him there just wasn't enough
>>     information in there. That the sonic differences between at least
>>     two different examples that they published, were not reflected in
>>     the red dots of the peak level. I said for a consumer article it
>>     was "good enough", but I would not let those graphics go in a
>>     professional context.
>>
>
>     Yeah, that’s a shame. But still I am glad for attention to the
>     loudness war in one of the world’s best read news papers...
>
>     Cheers,
>     Eelco
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