Hans, that was a general remark.
I'm aware of the loudness wars. Although, I believe their efforts are in vain.
Where is the end to it?
I believe if one was to concentrate on the quality of the sound and not so much the
loudness (as in the loudness wars) you would end up with a "decent sounding" station.
Thats what I aim for.
To trade off quality for loudness, I believe, is going down the wrong path.
About your loudness filter ... It sounds good, so long as one doesn't turn it up too far.
1.25 would be as far as I would go with it.
I am the same way with mastering limiters or multi-band maximizers.
Just enough to give it a slight boost.
What can I say? I'm moderate on "loudness" when it comes to audio.
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Another point I want to make:
There are some who think down mixing - rotation - seperation of stereo channels
into two mono channels, then remixing the whole kettle of brew into something
LOUD and FAT at the end of 20 to 30 stages is "audio engineering".
I left out alot in the above statement .. but, you get the picture.
By the time they are finished with contorting the audio to meet the
sound they are looking for ... the original artist material is lost
into a mire of squashing, pumping, expanding, harmonic duplication, etc.
I don't know .. maybe i'm being too critical.
cheers!