Death Magnetic - Metallica

Among the CD album is very loud, there is a remarkable phenomenon occurs, namely the level of violence his Metallica album titled Death Magnetic. It seems the album is very much related to the issue of The Loudness War. The Death Magnetic CD is compressed so it sounds Louder and more Forceful - at the expense of sound quality.

Bob Katz about the Loudness War

One more person behind the screen talking about the loudness war. He is Bob Katz, who is known as an audio engineer known for his book Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science. Katz has won three Grammy Award winning album that is:

AC-R128 - Loudness Measure

One more Loudness Measure that you can use to measure the loudness of an audio. Plugin that this one has a digital number, so for those of you who like a meter in the form of digital numbers, this free plugin is the right choice.

Bob Ludwig at AES, talking about the "Loudness war"

Bob Ludwig, a mastering engineer who has won many awards and his many credited on many albums throughout the world. He is also a very understanding about the loudness wars and prove how the fight against loudness war when he worked on mastering the album Gun N Roses (Chinese Democracy). Below is a video Bob Ludwig talking about the loudness war:

The Loudness War (Video)

Short duration video explains how a musical audio file in compression and in the limit excessive, that produce The Loudness War. You will know how to audio mastering process behind that regardless of the dynamics of the music (but does not mean all audio mastering facility like that)

VU Meter - Loudness Measure

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For the person who engaged in audio editing, of course not bother with the "how to loudness measure of the audio using the number". But here I try to share a bit of science behind the ways of the audio editing is just to help people who do not understand about mastering the science but wanted to know or analyze their collection album as very loud or quite standard. So maybe this will sound very simple but we hope can be helpful for people other than the audio engineer who also wanted to combat the Loudness War.

Examples of Loud Albums

Below are the albums that received criticism in terms of loudness. Hope can be a material comparison and correction for those of you who have one collection of albums are:

I took from wikipedia and called the sentence: "Some of the albums have been criticized for That Their sound quality include the following:"