Kings of Leon new album - the first non-fungible token album ever out today.

[One and a half]

23 hours ago, fas42 said:

Also out of curiosity 😉, I checked one of the tracks,, The Bandit - yep, the usual soft limiting; Audacity shows solid red, meaning clipping, throughout - applied my usual decompression method to restore the waveform, which gives nearly 8dB increase of dynamics, in this case. Playing the rescued alongside the original, huge improvement - the instruments which have all their dynamics squashed, come back to life; the toy sound quality they have in the 'proper' version is reversed.

 

If one bought one of these "modern" albums, the first thing one would do is recover a decent waveform, and play those from then on ... throw the starting point, mangled effort into the bin.

I thought that clipping once recorded cannot be restored, the recording is wrecked forever, like mp3. 
You’re not just using volume control in Audacity? There’s no such magic DR restoration in Sound Forge that works.

Always critical of your posts, this one I can’t let go.