Comments on: Metallica Albums Re-Mastered for 2008 – Exciting Sound?

By: Dynamic Range must return

Dynamic Range must return — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:11:31 +0000

The loudness war completey rapes an album’s production. Andy Wallace is my favorite mixer. He worked on such masterpieces such Slayer’s Seasons In the Abyss and Nirvana’s Nevermind. It pains me to hear his tastful mixing work on Slipknot’s Iowa album be destroyed by overcompression.

By: John Marcus

John Marcus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:58:29 +0000

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By: John Marcus

John Marcus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:56:46 +0000

the dramatic improvements in clarity, depth and the emotional power that comes from variations in rhythm, timbre, pitch and loudness.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:03:25 +0000

Today the hifi quality on a cd is down to a phonecall. The masses want it, ullrich calls it exciting. Thats the funeral of the cd, every vinyl sounds better.

By: novasoundlab

novasoundlab — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:51:29 +0000

As a mastering engineer, I will no longer fight the Loudness War.

It can definately go on without me.

It is self-serving, puerile and insane to think that compressing the crap out of a CD to the point where the texture, tone and shape of it is bleached out beyond listenability is a viable marketing strategy.

If this has precluded any chance of my getting into the big leagues of the industry, so be it – I am not going to be a party to mudering music.

By: SIR JOHN MARCUS

SIR JOHN MARCUS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:25:30 +0000

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LOUDNESS WAR IS NO MORE!!!!!!

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By: Hendrix

Hendrix — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:44:54 +0000

Sounds like it was recorded on my first (£20) cassette recorder. Is this what music has come to!
Why not use technology to solve the problem rather than create one:
Why not give people a choice – 192kb/s compressed commercial version, 320kb/s uncompressed high quality version and a lossless high quality version. These could be marketed individually or as a single package and also sold as a (double sided?) CD.

Any business should maximise its market, not try to piss it off!!

By: Qtax

Qtax — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:07:05 +0000

Re: What’s the last song in this video?

Rush – Tom Sawyer

By: Qtax

Qtax — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:56:40 +0000

What’s the last song in this video? (The one that starts when “rush” and “aural sodomy edition” come up.) Seems like a nice tune, been trying to find out what it is but no luck.

PS: Just sampled some of the tracks on Death Magnetic, I’m shocked that it’s gone so far.

By: Impalafarmer

Impalafarmer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:42:08 +0000

This is sad, and for many reasons. 1-Metallica promised a better album, getting “back to their roots”, and in my opinion they delivered. To have this issue screw them YET AGAIN is a tragedy. But, 2-it IS an issue and I’ll tell you how I know. I have not yet purchased the last offering from MY personal #1 favorite band, RUSH, only for fear that it will be as overdriven as their last album, “Vapor Trails”. Even their classic rock tribute EP “Feedback” is rather loud. I didn’t know the recording industry was doing this on purpose, I thought I was just getting old. So I MP3′d the discs (for my own use of course) and used normalizing on the volume. Unfortunately, a good point brought up here is that everything in the recording is brought up to the maximum volume level. No wonder I find myself listening to my vinyl collection more often! To whoever came up with this stupid idea of compressing everything like this: don’t you think in these trying economic times you should be striving a little harder for quality? You may want to start listening to these people out here, since it IS a consumer’s market these days. Or are you already far too deaf…..