Peak Limiting but No Compression: How Much?

[mansr]

1 hour ago, The_K-Man said:

mitchco seems more sincere than Ian Shepherd in his efforts to educate the listening public on dynamics and other aspects of musical fidelity, and in promoting a return to more dynamic material.

Ian Shepherd promotes various DAW plugins more than anything else.

[mansr]

18 minutes ago, The_K-Man said:

My point was that, for an established engineer promoting an annual "Dynamic Range Day" event, he seems to think that DR8 is a reasonable target for most mainstream music genres(rock, pop, country, rap).  Maybe he wasn't alive then, but from the 1980s and back a lot of music in those genres returned a DR of 12 or higher!  And it didn't feel like a dentist's drill to listen to either.

DR8 is perfectly reasonable for a lot of rock and such. DR4 isn't. I agree a bit higher would be better still, but if producers can be convinced to release DR8, it'll be an improvement over the current situation. One step at a time.