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Originally Posted by ron160  bought this one when i was in the uk last weekend. with all respect to demo, but how can you be proud of mixes that sound squashed and lifeless like this ? there are tracks on madonna's cd that i just can't listen to in my earbuds cause the distortion drives me crazy. it's not just on her album, all of demos mixes on timbalands album sound like this too. i know , some of you might be saying that's probably the mastering guys fault, but i read an article (forgot where it was) where they say that demos mixes already look like a brick when they go to mastering. i remember when i first heard 4 minutes when it leaked on the web, i was like : alright..that's maybe some radio rip, the original will sound better.
bought the cd : the original sounded exactly like that other file..
anyway, just my 2 cents.. |
Exactly...compare them to the Spike Stent mixes on the same album.
There's always a healthy amount of BS in the Sound on Sound interviews, or at the very least a fair amount of glossing over details, but in the last few issues they've really chosen bad interviewees in my opinion. I know people who've worked with Demo, and apparently he's a really nice guy, so I wouldn't want this to come across as slagging someone off...but the sounds speak for themselves. I think he mixed some of the Timbaland/50Cent tracks, and they're absolutely smashed and distorted sounding too.