if the vinyl has a DR of 11 there is clearly nothing wrong with the recording. If the various iterations of the CD release have had a lot more dynamic compresion applied that is part of the mastering process not the recording process. You could take any recording with a DR of 15 plus and re-master it to have a DR of 1 if you wanted to.Lindsayt wrote:http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list? ... definitely
Definitely Maybe has a Dynamic Range of 11 on the original vinyl and only 4 to 7 on the various CD versions. I've only got the CD version.
Any album that's supposed to be recreating live sound that has a DR of 4 to 7 has been engineered by clowns that don't know what they're doing.
My point being that the way a recording sounds is an artistic decision, not a question of competence. You may not like the artistic decision (clearly a lot of folk here would prefer Oasis to sound like Dire Straits) but to confuse it with a lack of ability is a mistake.