SteveR, I am reading reports that the new Metallica album is a sonic mess. Waiting for some verification of this source, but damn.
I did not realize Rick 'I also like it all wrong' Rubin mixed this. I've read complaints about his work with Mars Volta too.
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Originally Posted by adamhlava
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So the average reader here is probably saying "golly, why does this matter to me, I like it loud". It's not loud like 'my amp goes to 11'. It's a matter of complete loss of sonic quality. You lose the nuances, the 'light & shade'. Even metal has nuance. This can make a even a great song sound bad.
As once described to me, they could not do this with vinyl, they were actually physically controlled by the allowable size of the grooves in the record. Yet another reason why CDs killed music.
Good article on it:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto..._high_fidelity