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“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	"What Happened to Dynamic Range?"
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	BY Bob Speer
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	CD Mastering Services
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	NOT FOUND
Date Page was Last Revised	Date not specified but written in "2001, mastering engineer, Bob Speer, wrote the following article about the abuses of compression in modern recordings. The article (with several updates) is as relevant today as it was then".
Date You Read It	30 January 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.cdmasteringservices.com/dynamicrange.htm

anti-music becau FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):  Bob points out statistics to prove his point "though there was a slight upturn in sales in 2004, total CD sales fell 7.2 percent from 2004 to 618.9 million units in 2005, the lowest since 1996, when they were 616.6 million" (Speer). Upset with the"rather than use this new technology to take advantage of it's wide dynamic range, the music industry went in the opposite direction.  They decided that louder is better"(Speer). Quoting Roger Nichols, one of the judges of the Grammy panel, experience choosing experience,"Last month, I listened to all the CDs submitted to NARAS for consideration in the 'Best Engineered Non-Classical' Grammy category.  We listened to about 3 to 4 cuts from the 267 albums that were submitted.  Every single CD was squashed to death with no dynamic range.  The Finalizers and plug-ins were cranked to 'eleven' so that their CD would be the loudest.  Not one attempted to take advantage of the dynamic range or cleanliness of digital recording" (Speer). "In December 2001, after listening to over 200 CDs, [the judges] couldn't find a single CD worthy", proving Speer's claim how music has changed(Speer). Bob describes todays music as anti-music "because the life is being squashed out of it through over compression during the tracking, mixing, and mastering stages"(Speer).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

Bob Speer writes this article about the loss of dynamic range in today's music. The article focuses on the negative effects technology has on music and how it has changed. Speer wants the music to go back to the way it was and stop the distortion of modern music.

Credibility of Source: 
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

The author Bob Speer, is a mastering engineer (studied at the Moody Bible Institute 
Of Chicago) . He edited and restored old recordings until he opened a  Pro Audio Rx, a mastering facility in Springfield, MO. 

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

It does not seem that the author or site has anything to gain by writing this article. Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

There is a bias because it only shows how the new technology has effected music negatively. 
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

The author uses people who judges music for Grammy winners and a tracking firm, adding credibility because these people work with music constantly.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I plan to use this source to support my opinion that today's music has changed into something negative.