Monthly archive December, 2007

The Loudness War & mixing for MP3 – why music quality drops with better technology.

A couple of interesting things popped up today about The Loundness War. Firstly this article in Rolling Stone. It’s one of the best I’ve seen on all the issues around overly loud records and how as audio technology evolves, the worse music sounds – and I’m not talking about content or style. As well as...

David Byrne on the changing face of the music business.

Reading boingboing the other day I saw a post to this article in Wired by David Byrne. It’s a killer article detailing the current spread of music business models out there. There are also a bunch of audio files on the page where David interviews Thom Yorke and Brian Eno among others. There is no...