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Originally Posted by jamie10  No comment on the compression? Its compressed to F**k...and limited up the a**. Agree? |
It is indeed; the vinyl is light years better in that regard (vinyl always is), but I'd still like to have more dynamic range. The ending of All I Need is compromised by the crush, it wants to absolutely explode into a million pieces and instead it's completely held back and mashed together. This kind of limiting creates a lot of tension without allowing for a full release because we're almost always slamming against the ceiling.
A bit too much yang, methinks. I love the amount of squeeze on Kid A, think it's perfect.
Am I the only one who thinks that the drum machines layered on the live drums are gratuitous in 15 Steps? It's way less rhythmically interesting to me and has way less 'feel' because of what I hear as excessively busy and overmixed beat boxes. It seems an odd choice. Contrast this with the stark mechanized beauty of Idioteque, that stupid pumping compression is lovely, it works beautifully.
Gregory Scott - ubk
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