Squarewave to make you happy
For the dutch readers, I've been over this subject a couple of times before, here's the previous message about it. Last night I sent the following complaint to Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound: ------------------------------------------------------ To: caryl.mcgowan [at] sterling-sound.com Subject: Question concerning master Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 ------------------------------------------------------ Dear someone who is not Tom Coyne, I have a serious question for Tom: Attached you'll see a screenshot of the raw audio coming from a 1:1 view of the single-CD 'Born To Make You Happy' by Britney Spears. On the sleeve of the CD it says 'mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound NYC'. For a long time I wondered what was wrong with the sound of this track, so I decided to take a look, and there it was; At least 10% of the track consists of clipped audio! As a professional audio engineer I'm just wondering; Is this YOUR fault, or was this track already in such state when it left Battery Studios (in other words: Is the so-called Pro Tools engineer Michael Tucker at fault here, or what's up with this horror you dare call mastering) ? If this is NOT caused by you, Tom, please try to…