In our second class, the biggest topic of interest was the loudness of sound in music, and how people say that the new generation of music sucks. Before, music producers were allowing a dynamic range in music where the listener could distinctly tell the difference between the soft parts and the loud parts. What was happening was, people would record songs using instruments at a certain level of noise, but if they wanted the track as a whole to be louder, the overall sound would be amplified to the point where certain instruments are blurting out blaring sounds. That led producers to alternating the pitches of the sound to find the preferred level of sound. That is called, dynamic range compression, and it makes the loud and soft parts sound the same. So, critics now say that this generation’s music is garbage, and it comes from the standpoint of the quality of music is decreasing to make up for how loud it is produced.