[mort96]

From the article:

> [...] Doing so caused dramatic amplitude spikes at the edit point. Chad didn’t bother to crossfade the transition: both files play simultaneously (causing spikes at double the volume).

> To compensate, he “remastered” the edited song by normalising it to 0dBFS — a rudimentary error.

That's why the OST is so incredibly brickwalled.

[mrob]

That's not what "normalising" means. Normalising is just changing the gain of the whole track so the peak level matches your target. And this is obviously what it meant, because if it somehow actually meant dynamic range limiting, we would not see the volume spikes.

[mort96]

Ah, sorry. I read it to mean compression. I see that I'm wrong now. Thanks!