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Originally Posted by AntzDigger7
Thanks so much for your hard work on this! How much do you think the compression affected the audio quality during the songs themselves? Do you think there will ever be a replay of the original source before it was edited/compressed, or is that extremely unlikely at this point? Can't believe they edited the original source.
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They do it and it is a mystery why they do it. The fact is not that you can/cannot edit a stream, but how you do it. You need to be extreme careful in compressing a live show, because the first consequence is that in order to make it “loud” you are really making loud only the unwanted noise (chatter, etc..).. This is the ABC of mastering.
What Djamieb taught me, is that you can apply a glue compression, which is a very mild compression (1-2 dB), just to glue the sound together, but only if you feel that the recording needs that.
What they have done is different, because they boosted the tracks because what they think is that like this it is cooler to hear. They are basically victims of the “loudness war” (let’s make it loud!) but in a more prominent way.
Also, they have first broken the tracks, removing the dead parts between the songs, then boosted them, with the result of having change in volume between one and the next one. In a correct workflow, splitting comes at the very end, to avoid these problems. I thing they just don’t care, because this is what they have done in the past.
100% of the shows that were coming from the archive and have been streamed in the past years had these sort of problems. Fortunately someone have taken his time to rework them and bring to a unique level. Those are called the Pope de-edits, and you can find a copy of them here:
https://mega.nz/folder/SYxCVLaT#0ofjdN96ykFxcl5fec2JxA
To answer to your question, it is 100% sure that we won’t see the original stream again, unless someone knows someone in SXM and gets the raw file.