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The blog was started by the Chicago-based acoustic Americana group Tangleweed to document their activities as working musicians. It has since expanded its mission to help engender greater interest and understanding of American vernacular music. The blog i
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Good interview with Bob Weston on mastering
I stumbled across this last night while preparing to attend tonight’s mastering session for our 3rd CD, Most Folk Heroes Started as Criminals. We like Bob Weston a lot. He engineered our first CD, and has recently opened a mastering studio in C...
Looooooooong awaited Replacements reissues due in April
Today’s Billboard has good news for Replacements fans: the band’s Twin/Tone-era output will be rereleased in remastered, expanded form on April 22: Billboard.com Each of the four CDs will be accompanied by rarities from that period in the...
Bob Katz talks about loudness: sounds like crap, only worse
Mastering engineer Bob Katz has an interesting rant about unlistenably loud CDs. He asserts that contemporary CDs are ten decibels louder than those made 15 years ago. Remember that decibels are measured on a logarithmic scale. A ten-decibel increase...
Looking at loudness
CDs are getting louder, and the increased volume is coming at the expense of dynamics and other musical details. The Loudness War isn’t the sole domain of major labels–indie labels are often just as guilty of creating unlistenable CDs due...
The loudness war, continued: why some CDs may make you vomit
More on the Loudness war. This article from the Times of London, Why Music Really is Getting Louder, includes this insight from Abbey Road’s senior mastering engineer, Peter Mew. Using a hard limiter during CD mastering causes waves to get squa...
