• radiofreebc@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Compression is the way this happened. Commercials are HEAVILY compressed, and shows aren’t. It’s not volume…it’s compression ratios.

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      17 days ago

      Well yeah it’s squashing the dynamic range but it’s also more than that since they aren’t doing it evenly across the spectrum. They bias up the high gain frequencies for human hearing, and bias down the frequencies that are low perceived gain for human hearing.