Because people are more likely to be listening to modern music on their iPods on the way to work, or in the car with fairly loud background traffic/engine noise.
It makes commercial sense. They are catering towards the lowest common denominator. The majority of people aren't audiophiles, nor do they have great sound reproduction systems.
I mean you seem to be throwing these questions at me as if I should be stumped, but I think you already understand *why* it happens. The sole reason that Opeth's, or any artist's music is available worldwide in hard copy format is because of the management/marketing etc. people involved in getting us to first know about the band, and then providing us relatively easy access to the records. Their goal is to reach as broad a market as possible, and that goal is reached by making the album hotter.
I'll look, thanks.About the Sneap forum thread, I've forgotten what it was called. I think it was featured on the main forum section (there's a ton of sub-forums now). You may have some luck searching strings like 'loudness war, mastering, squashing'.
I really think this entire topic is a bit of an exaggeration.
As much as there is the occasional blatant offender in the loudness war, Opeth, IMO, isn't one of them.
seance = wrong
moonlapse = write.
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that isn't even relevant. I want discussion, not to "win", but it doesn't seem like this thread will go any further, at least here. thanks to those who responded.
Are the vinyl version of Opeth releases as equally distorted as the CD versions in terms of the breadth of sound being reduced for this loudness war?
I totally understand teh argument here...and agree with Seance on some points and with moonlapse with some too..>!!!!......i personally donot think opeth is severly affected by this....as many have said it .......but yeah this trend def....is a mood killer.....u cannot really enjoy teh whole atmosphere of teh sound with teh frequencies missing and meshed up sound......it jsut isnt right.....!!!!!!.....heck the reason I dont haev ipod and dont buy stuff from itunes is coz...im not a fan of teh 128K mp3......it takes away alot of the sound....and with this loudness war some of that is alreayd happening..and by teh tome u d/l ure mp3...teh soudn has goen through 2 grades of meshing .....so its relaly not pleasnt to listen to.....agna Opeth is nota big offender...but this trned is affecting every band ....adn it needs to die off....and only teh music buying public can change that by rioting and burning record execx effiges in teh street..!!!!....PEAC EOUT
Could you do me a lil favour plz? Just a little tiny one. NEVER EVER COME BACK TO THIS FORUM IF YOU'RE GONNA TYPE LIKE THAT.
I mean, you don't really think anyones reading anything that you say when you type like that don't you? It's pure spam with some incripted hidden message behind it. QUIT IT.
**end of outragous outburst**
has anyone ever talked to waz outside of the forum. Does he still type like a paint ridden child?
I still ahev mail correspondence with a few friends....Mail as in regular...write with a pen and paper mail....and they always prasie my hand writing...i guess its a give and take situation...i haev excellent hand wriritng but poor typing skills....o well....u cant always get what u want.......alright....i know someones gonna quote teh next line....so Ill save u the trouble...but if u try someteims...u jsut might find...u get what u need.....o well.....but yeah.....sorry for the bad typing......!!!!...PEAC EOUT
lol poor typing skills? try poor grammar, poor structure and poor punctuation.