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The sound quality of the CD album "Making Mirrors" is abysmal. A casualty of the loudness war for sure.
We kept hearing the song "Somebody That I used to Know" on TV, and it didn't sound like the album filth.
On the UK Freeview digital channel 4Music, the show "UK Hot 40" aired on the evening of 24-April-2012, and was repeated on the morning of the 25-April-2012. We saw the promotional video for the song, and planned to record it when the Hot 40 show aired the second time round.
So this listing of the song is from the UK Hot 40 program, and is the promotional video.
Definitely more open and spacious sounding. Lovely tone, smooth but clear. Plenty of ambience, reverb and separation. This is how it should sound. A good master.
Potentially some loss of high frequencies due to MPEG video stream compression for broadcast.
Have yet to hear the CD Single. This may be smashed, like the album.
Audio was captured from Alba STB8 (cheap digibox) through a generic SCART-RCA cable to M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card at 16bit 44.1KHz, using Wavelab.
*("... sound card at 16bit" which I now realise was a bit dumb - the ADC is natively 24bit, and so the data is truncated by software on input and not dithered. Note, always record at the native bit depth of the ADC and dither (if needed) to target bit depth)*
Format: WAV
Time: 4m 2s
Average RMS: -19.81 dB
Average Loudness: -20.89 LUFS (Foobar2000, ReplayGain, libebur128)
***This is not distributed on any networks***
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