Back in late March I was the unexpected recipient of a great April Fool’s joke by Scott Dorsey of Recording Magazine. I was so fooled by the prank that I even posted a blog about it (Louder is not Better). Now, granted that if I had read the article on April 1st I probably would’ve picked up on the gag, but I got the magazine around March 27th.
So, my hats off to Mr. Dorsey for a very well played April fools joke and my apologies if I made any offending comments. But I must admit that I still believe that there are loads of people in the music industry that think that over-compression and mastering albums so loud that it removes all sense of dynamics is a good thing. I would even think that Mr. Dorsey’s idea for his April Fools prank may have come from the fact of how ridiculous the practice is.
