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Originally Posted by Silent Sound  To me, Neon Bible was one of the best sounding recordings I've ever heard. They compressed it pretty hard, but it was still a very dynamic album. I don't know how they did it...best of both worlds, somehow.
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I have to respectfully disagree. As much as I loved that album I thought it sounded flat (ie dimensionless and mushy) . On my mp3 player and $30 phones no big deal. But when I play the first track "Black Mirror" on a good system, its like what did they do to the drums? Maybe you can chalk it up to artisitic choice, but where's the snare?
Maybe they got it loud by EQ-ing out the mids and avoided harshness (?), but something about it strikes me as weird.
BTW I'm not totally anti-loud, recent favorite is "Dead Weather /cowards ", which by all meaure is WAY too loud, yet somehow sounds "right" to me.