Reply To: Film music vs. classical music
I often wondered why classical music doesn’t get recorded like film music.
Probably classical music is much less compressed (dynamic compression, not the mp3 shrinking compression I mean of course) and uses the full dynamic range from very quite to very loud as you would hear it in reality probably. Film music and especially modern scores make of coures heavy use of compression that make the quite parts louder so the difference is not that huge.
The extreme usage of that was a while back in the “loudness wars” of course when even classic rock/pop musik being re-release was heavily compressed. Not to speak that lots of moder pop music is compress to death and has no dynamic anymore at all.
My issue with classical recordings is often that concert hall sound as I like the dryer (but not too dry) film score recoding sound.