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Music concerts should get quieter (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is no secret that prolonged exposure to loud sound is highly damaging to our hearing. Listening to loud music is one of the common factors leading to degraded hearing ability and tinnitus, and is deeply unhealthy.

At the same time, such level of noise negatively impacts the quality of sound perception, which degrades the musical side of the musical performance.

In what seems to be the echoes of the so-called "loudness war", bands still stick to the idea that "the louder you blast it - the better". But it's not true. There are many other ways to energize the crowd without causing them sound damage, and I'd love to see more of those, instead of them trying to be the loudest ever.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Could not agree more. I love the idea of live music but in practice it’s a miserable experience unless you’ve already suffered significant hearing loss.

Maybe someday people will stop putting up with this and I’ll be able to enjoy it but this idea seems a long way away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd sooooo much love to go to concerts more once they are quieter!

This would make it so so much of a better experience

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a music producer and there is/was a "Loudness War" and several people say loud won. To clarify: for your tracks to qualify when uploading them to Spotify I believe they have to be a minimum of -10 LUFS. I'm not going to pretend that I know what a LUFS is fully, but I have software to tell me where my LUFS is at. If you don't hit at least -10 LUFS they will fake it for you, with usually terrible results.

So now all producers are mixing to -10 LUFS and higher (-8 or -9), all for the sake of possibly getting radio play in the future, although not all music sounds good when mixed so damn loudly. I know this is tangentially related but

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is interesting! I've heard Spotify normalizes loudness, but didn't know they go to terrible ranges just to sound louder.