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Dear BL:<br>
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Our petition to the streamers is almost there! Finally: Diplomatic
and kind but convincing. Within a few weeks we're going to put it up
and publicize it. We have a new video that Matt Mayfield produced
for us as he joined in with us. He introduces the issue on screen
and then plays the original Mayfield video, then comes back to urge
everyone to sign the petition! I sweetened the sound of Matt's on
camera lavalier. <br>
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To me this is the last ditch battle in the forever war. I see no way
out anymore other than consumer pressure for loudness normalization.<br>
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Crackles and crispies! Ye gods.... clip the mix, why not :-(<br>
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Yeah... I'm doing an incredible purist jazz album right now with a
fabulous singer who I think could become the next Diana Krall. She
has her own unique, hypnotic voice and character and she's drop dead
gorgeous. <br>
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Fortunately the mix is very clean and actually too conservative! In
fact I had to punch up the hot blues numbers to make them kick! That
was fun and they love the results. What a nice turn of affairs from
the usual squashed mixes that we have to try to open up. <br>
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However, naturally, the producer wants me to push the level of the
album further. I'm going to find a way to do it with as little harm
to the sound as possible, of course. Compared to your day, mine is
going to be a pleasure. <br>
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Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/16 7:12 AM, Robert Ludwig
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Hi all,
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<div class="">I just had to share this <b class=""><i class="">confidentially</i></b>
with you.</div>
<div class="">This is a note from a very famous mixing engineer to
me:</div>
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<div class="">“The way people want to hear stuff these days, i had
to try to make these loud. I used various things on "playback
only" to inflate the mixes but nothing was printed, and in the
end the band was cool with the hot level. I just ended up
having to push the desk and the parallel processing to the
limit. On the songs that I felt might be too hot, I lowered all
the desk faders and sometimes the source material and called the
mix a "low level" version. </div>
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<div class="">Please DO NOT use these low level versions in their
entirety. <u class="">Only</u> in the spots where u think u may
need to get rid of some crackle or whatever my mix chain is
doing under duress and brought out later. I only did them in
case you had to drastically fix some of these mixes and it
brings out the crackles and crispies. then the lower level might
allow u some room to cut a piece in or whatever....only where
needed if at all.”</div>
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<div class="">What a discouraging way to start the day! This is
so no-right.</div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
<div class="">Bob L.</div>
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