Metallica's Death Magnetic Sounds Better in Guitar Hero

According to mastering engineer Ian Sheperd, Metallica's new Death Magnetic album has a serious sonic problem: it has been compressed (in the audio sense of the word, not the file size sense) just about as much as it's possible to compress audio.

Part of the "loudness war," this type of compression is designed to make music sound as loud as possible at the expense of dynamic range (the difference between loud and softer sounds). Television advertisers use similar technology to get the most bang for their buck volume-wise, which is why ads often sound so much louder than television programs.

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Tags:  Guitar Hero, Death Magnetic, Metallica, Wired, compression

Eliot Van Buskirk @ Wired    September 17, 2008