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post #1 of 16
5/14/12 at 9:34pm
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Is it just me, or have producers gone completely insane when it comes to mastering songs? I mean, this stuff doesn't even look like music.



What reason could you possibly have for clipping the life out of every word and every beat in a song? I can't even listen to it.
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post #2 of 16
5/15/12 at 3:35am
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Originally Posted by saywhut View Post

Is it just me, or have producers gone completely insane when it comes to mastering songs? I mean, this stuff doesn't even look like music.

What reason could you possibly have for clipping the life out of every word and every beat in a song? I can't even listen to it.

I presume that you bought the track, right? You didn't post this from a bootleg, right?

As far as the producer goes, that's all that matters. He's got your money!
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post #3 of 16
5/15/12 at 9:50am
Yup - succumbing to the 'louder is better' school of thought.
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post #4 of 16
5/15/12 at 10:30am
Looks to me like someone doesn't know how to properly set/use a Compressor/Limiter.
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post #5 of 16
5/15/12 at 12:25pm
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I would have thought somebody with 14 grammys would at least know how to produce a record but I guess I'd be wrong.

It isn't a bootleg, but I didn't buy it either. I always listen to albums before I buy them, so I got this from a friend who had it. I definitely decided against forking over any cash for such a trash production. It just hurts my ears.
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post #6 of 16
5/15/12 at 3:43pm
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I would have thought somebody with 14 grammys would at least know how to produce a record but I guess I'd be wrong.

We do have a president with a Pulitzer Peace Prize...
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post #7 of 16
5/15/12 at 5:06pm
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Originally Posted by Knucklehead90 View Post

We do have a president with a Pulitzer Peace Prize...

There's a Pulitzer peace prize now?
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post #8 of 16
5/15/12 at 7:30pm
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Originally Posted by JD in NJ View Post

There's a Pulitzer peace prize now?

Why not?
Is that higher than a Nobel?
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post #9 of 16
5/15/12 at 8:52pm
Apparently he's a brilliant writer as well as a philanthropist. Sorry Knucklehead, we knew what you meant....
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post #10 of 16
5/16/12 at 12:56am
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We do have a president with a Pulitzer Peace Prize...

Did he get it the same place he got his Birth Certificate?
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post #11 of 16
5/16/12 at 10:26am
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Originally Posted by jdcrox View Post

Did he get it the same place he got his Birth Certificate?

Yeah an eBay auction, lol.

A lot of music is coming out with loudness fully engaged. It's almost their claiming the music is hirez now because of how loud it's recorded. Perhaps record companies will figure it out in 10 years...
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post #12 of 16
5/16/12 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by Knucklehead90 View Post

We do have a president with a Pulitzer Peace Prize...

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Did he get it the same place he got his Birth Certificate?

Yuk, yuk. He got it the same place as bogus Churchill quotations and conspiracy theories: the Internet.
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post #13 of 16
5/21/12 at 10:49am
Was about to start a similar kind of thread. This weekend I've finally built my perfect stereo system, an HTPC with all my music ripped to Flac, a 155W Per channel amp and two full range tower speakers....

Stuck in all my modern music (radiohead, Mumford & Sons etc) and it sounded slightly better, played old recordings like Dave Brubeck, The Doors, Grateful dead etc and the difference blew me away, Dave Brubeck especially sounded stunning, like it was a live concert.

I never realised before how music is being made for cheap speakers and ****** setups (because I had a ****** setup before) But the dynamic range isn't there. Don't know what to do though other than buy older recordings, listening to anything in the last 15 years I may as well just listen to it on computer speakers.
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post #14 of 16
5/21/12 at 8:29pm
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Originally Posted by postrokfan View Post

Apparently he's a brilliant writer as well as a philanthropist. Sorry Knucklehead, we knew what you meant....

Yeah - got that one wrong. Nobel Peace Prize was the right answer.
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post #15 of 16
5/21/12 at 8:33pm
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Originally Posted by matteos View Post

Was about to start a similar kind of thread. This weekend I've finally built my perfect stereo system, an HTPC with all my music ripped to Flac, a 155W Per channel amp and two full range tower speakers....

Stuck in all my modern music (radiohead, Mumford & Sons etc) and it sounded slightly better, played old recordings like Dave Brubeck, The Doors, Grateful dead etc and the difference blew me away, Dave Brubeck especially sounded stunning, like it was a live concert.

I never realised before how music is being made for cheap speakers and ****** setups (because I had a ****** setup before) But the dynamic range isn't there. Don't know what to do though other than buy older recordings, listening to anything in the last 15 years I may as well just listen to it on computer speakers.

Try this thread. Lots of well recorded albums.

Try this thread too.
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post #16 of 16
5/22/12 at 9:25am
nice, thanks
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