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High-definition
audio for CD mastering.
As in radio, pure, clean, consistently
loud output is a primary goal when mastering music for compact
disc and other digital mediums.
Frank Foti, in a white
paper co-authored with Robert Orban, recently observed that
"About three years ago, we started to
notice CDs arriving at radio stations that had been
pre-distorted in production or mastering to increase their
loudness. For the first time, we started seeing frequently
reoccurring flat topping caused by brute-force clipping in the
production process. Broadcast processors react to
pre-distorted CDs exactly the same way as they have reacted to
accidentally clipped material for more than 20 years-they
exaggerate the distortion. Because of phase rotation, the
source clipping never increases on-air loudness-it just adds
grunge."
The engineers at Omnia, a diverse
collection of musicians, broadcast engineers, acousticians and
scientists, have years of experience in delivering audio with
maximum loudness and ultimate clarity. They developed
processing algorithms specially suited to the unique
requirements of the mastering studio and implemented those
algorithms on a state-of-the-art 96 kHz / 24-bit platform. The results
are stunning.
Omnia. Redefining the art of audio
processing... again.
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