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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 :-(<br>
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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. <br>
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Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/16 3:22 PM, Bob Ludwig wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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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