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Originally Posted by jonnyclueless I couldn't respectfully disagree more. The matrix songs to me sounds so squashed it's almost unlistenable. I like the songs, but they are hard to enjoy because of the severe compression and distortion. The Micheal Penn ones are much more tasteful for me. Maybe the apparant volume is greater, but if you match the levels, the matrix ones sounds smaller, restricted, and have no dynamics at all. Oh yeah, and the autotune has gone way overboard on the matrix songs. They could have at least used graphical mode, but it's clearly set on automatic mode and to extreme settings. I agree it's a huge sonic gap, but I think Micheal's production is a level above the matrix. If only the songs were...
I think consumers should be offerd a version of CDs that haven't been so limitted. Like how they used to have special edition CDs that were right from the masters. Maybe a version where the mastering engineer backs off the limiters. |
If you listen to old Sinatra/Elvis/Beatles tracks, they also sound smaller and restricted. That's what makes them work so well over radio, and that's why people like them, becuase that's what sounds pleasant to normal average people.
I am so sick of this elitist "if it's compressed in any way it's no good" snobbery. Save it for the gay classical/jazz snobs and those idiot audiophiles that spend a thousand bucks for a foot of cable and use gear even more "hi-fi" than the gear used to record the damn music in the first place
F--k dynamics. Too much if it makes things sound scattered, flat, dull. Recordings sound limited and restricted because that is the SOUND of recordings that over the course of time since recording has been invented, people have deemed them pleasant sounding.
And no more belly aching about Green Day's American Idiot. It sounds f'ing brilliant on the stereo, on the radio, on an iPod, on little crappy radio speakers. It's compressed as hell and I love it.
Sorry but the Michael Penn stuff sounds like flat boring amateur recordings compared to the Matrix tracks. The fact that none of the Penn stuff made it to radio only confirms it.