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Cpc464 ( talk) 12:32, 2 February 2008 (UTC) Song Durations See loudness war for more info on this problem. Most modern albums are compressed to the point of clipping. The production on Brothers im Arms has great dynamic range. It has more to do with compression than it does normalization. Is it true that the reason this album seems 'quiet' when you play it today, that the disc was normalized at 80% rather than the more typical 95+% used now-a-days? This would fit with the 'one of the first albums released on CD' idea, since if CD was a fairly new format, they'd have still been experimenting? Anybody know? Anyway, apart from a few analogue slave reels, there was never any analogue tape storage stage where you would ‘lose’ it, so to speak.” Figure19 ( talk) 16:07, 2 August 2009 (UTC) CD normalization
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To be honest, at the time, there was no way of doing a pure DDD album, so the analogue stage of mixing through a console was never differentiated on the CD jewelbox. “However, I would still consider that to be an ‘all-digital’ album. " we were fighting to get our CDs manufactured because the entire worldwide manufacturing capacity was overwhelmed by demand for a single rock title (Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms)." from the Rykodisc website ( )Ĭoncerning DDD and "fully digital" Chuck Ainlay said: “The original album, which I consider to be a masterpiece, was mixed in a SSL4000 analogue console from the analogue outputs of the DASH 3324,” says Ainlay. AdorableRuffian 23:11, 6 November 2005 (UTC) It was one the first albums to be released primarily for the CD market, being fully digital (DDD). Mark Knopfler readily admits that his ambitions of top quality and musical authenticity may not be the same as other rock stars, but that they are ambitions nonetheless.If Brothers in Arms was released in 1985, it can't have been "one of the first albums to be released on CD" as the article states - the CD format had been in existence for 2-3 years by that time. Soon I would be equally in admiration of Mark’s matter-of-fact frank and honest insights on music, fame, and his preference for observing others rather than being observed. Mark Knopfler’s gracious accessibility, at a time and place when Dire Straits’ enormous world-wide fame should have precluded it, impressed me greatly that night. These popular songs integrate seamlessly with others like the sublime “ Ride Across the River“, the sleeper “ One World“, and the taut, cinematic “ Brothers in Arms” title closer. Suddenly his eyes brightened as he easily agreed to provide the gift, while informing me that Spain had long been a Dire Straits hub of popularity long before Brothers in Arms‘ phenomenal sales.Īt this point thirty-five years after “ Money for Nothing” became the number one song in the US by September 1985, possibly the most remarkable observation I can make about Dire Straits’ album Brothers in Arms is how thoroughly enjoyable it remains today in spite of American radio and MTV overplaying “ Money for Nothing“,” So Far Away”, and “ Walk of Life“. In an effort to find some initial common ground to bridge the time, geography, language, and cultural barriers between us, I had discovered that my Spanish cousin’s favorite band was Dire Straits, so I asked the fatigued Knopfler for an autograph on a Brothers in Arms album cover which I provided. As our eyes met in the backstage hallway, there was a look of apprehension is his face which seemed to almost plead,” Please don’t ask me for anything right now.” So after introducing myself I said ,” You probably don’t want to do this right now, correct?”When Mark quietly but quickly declined, quite uncharacteristically I asked for a personal favor, explaining to Knopfler that I had just reconnected with a long-lost cousin living in Madrid, Spain. Knopfler & band had just moments before played to a capacity Dallas audience of 15,000, and because it’s my job to ask, there I was approaching a visibly drained and exhausted Mark Knopfler for an interview. So that’s exactly the circumstances under which I first met Mark Knopfler a good 10-12 months into the massive Dire Straits Brothers in Arms world tour of 1985-86. They are physically and emotionally spent.
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Possibly the worst conceivable time to approach a rock musician, for any reason, is immediately after coming off stage from performing for 90 minutes or more.