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I don't really agree with most of you, yes production got better (except for much weaker drums in comparison to earlier hiphop.) But in terms of sonics things got so much worse. yes things are much more crispy and things sit and don't move due to too much processing. just picked up Common"s album, way to much vocal processing, too much top in mix just to crunchy in general. Everyone is so bent on crisp and loud the norm soniclly has driven much of the personallity out of most hiphop. Stuffs just sounding very lifeless in my opinion. Aside from Timberland's engineer which still does it right, everything is way to sqeezed and thin in current hiphop (for the most part) that I can't get any real sence of energy out of the music. Like most popular music in generall everything is the market is more focused on the mp3 and ipod market the people who actually like playing music loud through something of decent quality suffer from lack of sonic breathing and are left with something that just screams at you with a lack of change and just leaves me not wanting to listen to the album again with a headache and a fatigued ear. Aside from hiphop what the hell happened when it came to mastering NIN "with teeth". like the album but I can't listen to it, it just hurts so bad, can't listen to more than two songs through without my ears saying stop. Way to ruin a great album.
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