Well said Sageridder. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hey, continuing my rant about systems changing the intended sound, I just remembered on Itunes there is the "sound enhancer" option with a scale of more/less.
What it does is compress the sound and turn up the treble. Uh huh. Wow. That's what mastering essentially does. In mastering the ong/album is compressed to maximum, and trebled to optimum sonic 'enhancement'. We pay masterers oh, $800 for a no name guy, and thousands for a better known guy. All this is fruitless of course, because Mac dish out Itunes with the sound enhancer defaulting to "ON". So people here an already compressed and trebled song even more so. Then there's radio. Which compresses the heck out of everything. But we all know that and allow for that.
So first shifts in tempos went out the window, then dynamic shifts. Soon variences in the frequency band. Made a song with a crunchy middle and warm bottom end? Forget it. All the products make it all sound like it's been put through a tinny top endy strainer.