Ali Zafar: What fans hear is 40% of what I created in studio

Art is a universal language. An artist interprets that language. Some readers glance in awe, some think only flaw. In his latest album, Ali Zafar explores his mystical side by touching upon Sufi and Semi-classical music, and invites you all to drift into a mystical land of melody and soul. The artist displayed the more mature side of him in ‘Jhoom’ which was mastered at world’s famous ‘Abbey Road Studios‘ by Alex Wharton and has already been declared a hit. All the songs were recorded, mixed and engineered at Alif Studios by Ali Zafar except Nahin Ray Nahin, Allah Hoo and Yar Dhadhi Ishq. But Ali is not happy with the quality of his music. He says that the sound what fans hear while playing the mp3 is perhaps a 40% of what he created in studio. He said,

“So basically if you still like what you hear, you have no idea what it sounds like on that chair we sit on in the studio. The music listening experience that you go through is so different from what we create in the studio because the sound is compressed greatly. What you hear is perhaps a 40% of how we hear on our studio monitors while creating it. We create on 24 bit but audio is compressed to 16 bit and then to an mp3 and then heard on small puny laptop speakers sometimes.”

Ali Zafar feels that “the industry needs to develop a model which can allow the listener to experience the same sound as created in the studio without any loss.”