Hacker News Reader

Noisia (dnb producers) are notorious for this...

I had a couple of Noisia records that sounded ridiculously louder than all my other music. I guess it's part of the "authentic" vinyl mixing experience to have to manually adjust a turntable trim mid-mix to avoid it sounding ridiculous.

View on HN

You can say a lot about Noisia, but their mixes always sound perfectly clean (if you can even say that about neurofunk). Not like Metallica's Death Magnetic album for example, for which the compression artifacts really hamper the listening experience.

True. Also their electro was also very colourful and vibrant sounding stuff. It's just annoying when you're in the middle of a mix, you don't check how the total mix sounds in your headphones, bring in the Noisia track and the other track is almost drowned out :D Of course a good DJ knows his music and will be ready to make adjustments, but it would be cool if the loudness war wasn't a thing

Reply on news.ycombinator.com