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This example describes a very common situation which we see happening every day in venues all over the

world. This problem is actually not anybody’s fault; it’s just the way things evolve through the years and the

result of different opinions of how things should sound. But it is a problem that we have to deal with.

On way to overcome this problem is what we call the ‘radio station solution’. What happens at a radio stations

is that very strong multiband-limiting is applied to all program material, so that every song will sound the same

and is as loud as the rest, no matter if it is a “middle of the road” ballad or a techno track.

This technique works, but the drawback is that the music loses all it’s dynamics, large amounts of harmonic

distortion are added and the carefully mixed material is loses it’s balance completely (hey, I didn’t know that

the tambourine in this song was louder than the lead vocal….). See the resulting waveform from our example

treated with the “radio solution” in the picture below.

The best way to overcome these problems is to have a real-life flesh and blood sound engineer standby 24-7.

This way we would always have someone monitoring the program material who would fix every change in

loudness or tone immediately. Naturally this solution is way too expensive for 99% of the venues.

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