This is a guest post by David Shimamoto from Vocal-EDIT.com. David lives in Kyoto and is the author of the book “Talkback – stories of the digital studio”, the first book in Japanese to thoroughly tackle the subject of the loudness war and streaming normalization. The book has sold almost 3000 copies since it was released in 2017 and is regularly used as a reference work for both music schools and
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