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Old Jun 19, 2010, 05:12 AM
LiquidAcid LiquidAcid is offline
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I used to have some pictures on my system displaying the most obvious differences in some tracks. Sadly I can't find them at the moment. Maybe I deleted them after finally purchasing the DigiCube release.

Anyway, what you can easily do is to feed the extracted (from the disc) tracks into Audacity and use the 'Show clipping' feature (I think it was called like that). This should show you some positions where the sound quality suffers.

Keep in mind though that Vagrant Story isn't that bad with DRC, the examples by Lowe and Xenofan are a lot worse.

EDIT: Checking the average tracks loudness is another way of identifying tracks that are mastered 'too loud'. Replaygain e.g. proposes a reference level of 89dB.

Read here to understand why this is a good choice:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...howtopic=12315
http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/
http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/calibration.html

Last edited by LiquidAcid; Jun 19, 2010 at 05:19 AM.
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