As the force behind metering and monitoring specialist DK-Technologies, CEO Karsten Hansen has made a career of finding insightful, accurate solutions to the monitoring needs of broadcasters. With the ...

John Kean explains how the xHE-AAC codec utilizes metadata to shift dynamic range control from content producers to listeners ...

The most fundamental audio issue of all — control of loudness — makes millions of people adjust their volume controls over and over on a daily basis. The CALM Act and legislation in other countries ...

The 'loudness' of our thoughts -- or how we imagine saying something -- influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds. The "loudness" of our thoughts -- or how we imagine saying ...

Audio quality can make or break a piece of content. Editors always need to remember that even if the video has mind-blowing visuals, poor audio quality will detract from the audience’s viewing ...

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOUDNESS! Yelling is loud! That fashionable guy on the train blasting music into his ears? His headphones are loud! Loudness sounds good and feels good, and unfortunately, it’s ...

The Audio Engineering Society has published recommendations about loudness for streaming and on-demand audio. “Implementing these guidelines will provide consistent loudness and appropriate playback ...

The trend to loud-all-the-time music shows no signs of letting up, but here's a possible way out of the Loudness Wars. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end ...

Munetaka Higuchi, the drummer and co-founder of the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, passed away on Sunday [November 30th] at about 10:00 a.m. in a hospital in Osaka, Japan. He was 49. Akira ...

The loudest album of 2010 was almost certainly Sleigh Bells' acclaimed Treats, a collection of songs with the volume and distortion of nearly every element pushed into the red. Drums became blasts of ...

An innovative, user-friendly, powerful analyser and True Peak limiter with a fairly steep price tag but a very bright future. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers ...