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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.