The Mastering Show #36 - Compression versus compression (and sponges)
Jul 05, 2017•40 min
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Episode description
In which Ian probably goes too far with his analogy explaining compression using sponges. And in which Jon describes the concept of “sloppage headroom” and inter-sample peaks, and in which we also discuss:
* Why lossy data compression doesn’t affect dynamics, except
* When it does. And
* Why dynamic compression doesn’t affect lossy compression quality, except
* When it does. Plus
* mp3 or AAC ? VBR or CBR ? Do we care ?
* The ultimate mp3 encoder stress-test
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