Do a search for "loudness war" and you'll have plenty of answers.
It's an unfortunate practice to apply compression, such as all peaks are reduced (flattened) and then raise the overall level. Consequently, the recorded sound will lose its dynamic impact, but will sound loud. Lousy but loud...
This is done by the recording studios and not much could be done to "undo" the damage. There are some promises with playback software in computer audio, but I believe it would be much better is this thing wasn't done to begin with.
Pretty sad.
It's an unfortunate practice to apply compression, such as all peaks are reduced (flattened) and then raise the overall level. Consequently, the recorded sound will lose its dynamic impact, but will sound loud. Lousy but loud...
This is done by the recording studios and not much could be done to "undo" the damage. There are some promises with playback software in computer audio, but I believe it would be much better is this thing wasn't done to begin with.
Pretty sad.