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Old 12-20-2010, 01:28 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Badlittlekitten View Post
I'm not clued up on the technical side of production, mastering etc. and wasn't really aware of this. So record companies actually do this to gain listeners attention? Seems like really dumb logic on their part.
Yes, this is something that record companies do very consistently and It's been a steady and increasing progression since the late 70's, but the original post of this thread does a far better job of explaining it than I ever could.
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