Loudness Wars – Real HD-Audio

Making the LFE Channel Go Boom

Getting extremely loud, low frequencies are the meat and potatoes of movie soundtracks. Movie directors and sound supervisors want to

The final section of the ITU specification is an Appendix to Annex 7, which we explored a few posts back.

John Siau, the head designer and principal at Benchmark, writes white papers and posts them to their site. As many

Gary Leonard Koh is a principal at Genesis Advanced Technologies and a member of the true believers in the analog

Getting to the Bottom End of the LFE The ITU specification for using the LFE (Low Frequency Effects or Low

I finally got a response from my friends at Dolby regarding the boosting of the LFE channel during the playback

I received a copy of an email this morning from Mark of CDIllumination, the company in Australia that is “vivifying”

Thanks to a reader’s recommendation, I found my way to a paper about the concept of loudness normalization written by

This whole loudness war issue is still among the biggest issues confronting the music industry today. And it includes to

One of my readers sent over a link to a Press Release written by mastering engineer Bob Katz that pronounced