Only in the most extreme examples have I heard the program produce odd artifacts that would appear unintended in the album’s mix. While one may not be able to “declip” an album as one would be unable to “unbake a cake”, I find the results here to be a convincible attempt at doing so. It’s important to note that the dynamics are not being restored with the “Perfect Declipper” program that I use, but rather, they are being approximated. Both are made the same loudness, so you can more easily compare the differences between them. You can see how a few of the edits look here: In this case, I was able to turn the dynamic range of the album from 4 into 11! I also chose to split “Nothing Left to Say” and “Rocks” into two different videos, as I’m not sure why they were on the same track in the first place.
The editing process makes the album more dynamic and can also eliminate artifacts of crackle and hiss from an album’s compression. Regardless, I attempted to make Night Visions more dynamic with a program I have called “Perfect Declipper” (creating something I dub a “dynamic edit”). Oddly enough, this arguably complements the overblown aspect of many of its songs, making the choruses just feel bombastic and distorted.
I don’t hear any of that crackle in Night Visions, though I find the album is very compressed in its mastering, often making the percussion fade into the background. Clipping or poor compressors specifically can introduce audible artifacts such hiss or crackle into the mix. The issue with this is that overuse of dynamic range compression and clipping can make music fatiguing to listen to, and sometimes even audibly distorted. As with any medium, however, there is a peak loudness a signal can reach, so dynamic range compression (which makes the louder parts of the signal quieter while keeping the quiet parts the same loudness) and sometimes even clipping (attempting to make a signal louder than maximum loudness) were used to make music as loud as possible. For those not in the know, the Loudness War is a phenomenon beginning in the mid-90s onward, in which music was mastered louder and louder, with the underlying reasoning being that louder music sounds better, and thus, sells better.
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