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It looks like some people are heavily into not getting the point of his critcisms, witness the bit at the bottom of the article where a producer tries to turn it into a 'digital is rubbish' debate by saying, "The top end of digital equipment gives a highly accurate reproduction of the signal coming in, so it is neither helping nor hindering the sound." El Reg helps out with a similarly mis-guided piece.

I think it's clear Dylan is rubbishing the production techniques that have become so drilled into anyone working in the business over the past couple of decades: "You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them. There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just, like ... static." Pick up a book on music production or read a few articles and it's staring right at you: compress, compress, compress, then compress some more. Compress the drums, compress the vocals, EQ everything so it takes up a single slot in the spectrum and then multi-band compress so you can crank everything up as high as it'll go.

Things have just got worse over the past few years. Now that anyone can produce and master an entire album in their bedroom the pros have to come up with better excuses for the cost of their gear and expertise. It looks like these are little more than knowing how to use a few psycho-acoustic tricks to make a track attractive when hearing a few snatches of it. Open up any track in a wave editor and it'll have a little intro and then peg itself just below 0dB until it fades out 3 minutes later. Dynamics? Wazzat?