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Originally Posted by LudicrouSpeed  Personally i absolutely HATE having to turn DOWN a track because it is way louder than the previous one... Maybe its just me. |
I had my album mastered by Peter Humphreys at Masterworks. Dude is on point. We took the song that came out with the lowest rms and matched all the louder ones to that. Some songs, the more aggressive ones, sounded better with a bit more limiting, so the rms end up at -10 for a couple tracks. The majority of the album sounded best with a little less limiting and we ended up somewhere around -12. So we brought the LOUDER ONES DOWN FOR THE SAKE OF CONTINUITY.
The problem with the volume knob. Ok - this is a stretch, but... when one is listening to an album as a whole, they may want to set a volume, and then not have to interrupt their listening experience to correct that setting later on. This becomes problematic when dealing with mixes taken from different albums.
I actually thought the second Disturbed album didn't sound horribly flat. I thought the drums could have used more body and punch in relation to the mix, especially those double bass drum runs, but all in all I thought it sounded pretty good.