<div dir="ltr">We shouldn't be surprised that judges prefer the louder recordings in (presumably) loudness unnormalized auditions - that's what that side of the fight has always been about. What you (and the artists and other engineers) were able to pull off is to keep the recordings from being fatiguing - the musical crush.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Robert Ludwig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gatewaybob@mac.com" target="_blank">gatewaybob@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thank you!<div><br></div><div>Both this and last years Best Engineered-non classical win (The Alabama Shakes and Beck) were masters the mix engineers pre-crushed, and both of those albums ended up being some of the loudest albums I did for the <u>year</u>! </div><div><br></div><div>Both times I was shocked that the Grammy Craft Committee thought those albums were worthy of nomination (let alone the shock that they won!). </div><div>It makes me want to give up the loudness fight when the accolades from our own engineering community are championing these loud mixes!</div><div><br></div><div>Admittedly both albums seem to “live” in that crush in a musical way. Still I wonder.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Bob</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Kevin Gross <<a href="mailto:kevin.gross@comcast.net" target="_blank">kevin.gross@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Wow!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Bob Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobkatz@digido.com" target="_blank">bobkatz@digido.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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