{"id":1604,"date":"2013-04-23T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:43:07","slug":"phat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/04\/phat\/","title":{"rendered":"Phat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing down quite a lot of music and sound design these days so I ended up looking at levels often and it\u2019s not that I want to freak out but I think we\u2019re peaking now.<\/p>\n<p>This is Pearl Jam\u2019s Jeremy song.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-EDW6kjb68K4\/UXTnN4nV1qI\/AAAAAAAABE0\/9wE0L4gmBFo\/s640\/pearljam_levels.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see, the \u201cbody\u201d of the sound is around -6dB, -4dB with peaks up to almost 0dB. We\u2019re talking about rock music, three guitars, bass drums etc. It\u2019s not like it\u2019s acoustic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, some Skrillex I don\u2019t even remember the song but I think it\u2019s Devil.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5pGFFkvIHBU\/UXTnM-lT_lI\/AAAAAAAABEs\/zQRirOMDW40\/s640\/skrillex_levels.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t look so different for untrained eyes but trust me, it\u2019s laughable. I didn\u2019t even know it was physically possible to saturate a signal <em>without saturating it<\/em> at that output level. Look at this motherfucking blue square!!!! Even when it\u2019s calm like at the start it peaks at 0dBppm\/+11dBVU every time drums kick in. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s compression. We reached the maximum compression we can do on records, that\u2019s it. After that our bodies don\u2019t even process anymore and we become cavemen all over again. Did you try to listen to some Toro y Moi for more than a song? This shit is so compressed and pumps so hard that even half a song exhausts me. It\u2019s supposed to be chill\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ultra Compression like above is like fast food. It feels extremely exciting and powerful but you hate yourself after inflicting your ears with fat, very fat burgers and oily fries. But yeah, I\u2019m learning how to make that shit too. It\u2019s quite fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing down quite a lot of music and sound design these days so I ended up looking at levels often and it\u2019s not that I want to freak out but I think we\u2019re peaking now. This is Pearl Jam\u2019s Jeremy song. You can see, the \u201cbody\u201d of the sound is around -6dB, -4dB with peaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}