Last 15? Try many of the re-masters of 50+ years old albums too. If you could only get the rights, I think you'd have a viable business model. You might consider re-mixing some of them as well. Think Steven Wilson and his Jethro Tull re-mixes. Excellent.
Good masterings already exist for most popular music older than 15-20 years old, although many of those good masterings may be out of print now. For a lot of albums in that 15-20 year range, no good dynamic masterings have ever been released.
Heavy peak limiting started in 1994, pretty much. But I'd take what I could get. (If you take requests, please start with smashed Bowie and Black Keys albums produced by Danger Mouse.) You would make me rather poor but very happy!
I've thought that it would be wonderful if there were some re-releases ala Steve Wilson remixes, but for different reasons. Rather than recreating the original mixed sound because of worn (or whatever) 2 channel master tapes, remixing the multi-track to dynamic 2 channel master tapes. (In cases like @dmckean44 mentioned.) Those that are not squashed in the mix just get dynamic remastering.
Limiting during mixing might be a question for LFF. They might. My understanding is it occurs most often during mastering as vinyl has made a come back.
Some amount of limiting/compression isn't also necessarily the end of the world. It's just when they squash it so bad that all the dynamics are gone that it's really a problem.
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