The Quincy Jones - Jimmy Nestico Orchestra: Basie and Beyond
CD
Musicall this is typical Quincy Jones and good big band music but boy is it loud. I had to turn my preamp down a full five clicks from where it was for the previous CD. And hardly any dynamic range. Just out of curiosity I fired up my cassette deck and checked the VU readings for this disc. The peaks seemed to brickwall at +5db (a variable setting that in and of itself has no meaning other than a benchmark for the highest peak), but the softer parts and the solos never came much below -1 db (and these were fast acting LED meters). So the total dynamic range was not much more than 6db. It was just
all loud. Boy, the compressors were sure working overtime on this one.
I felt like the guy in the Maxell ad.