Eeeeks! New Dream Theater Greatest Hits remixes butchered!!!

audiomichael · 19th April 2008

I was pretty excited to see that Kevin Shirley remixed 3 songs for the new Dream Theater Greatest Hit package. I downloaded the 3 from iTunes, and am blown away by how bad they sound. I had to go back to make sure I wasn't mistaken that maybe they were the original band recorded demos or something. Nope, just really crappy mixes. I'm about 50/50 on Shirley's mixing. When it's good it's stellar (Led Zep's How The West Was Won, or Silverchair's Frogstomp), when this is just wrong. It's like they couldn't possibly turn the snare up any higher, and all depth and body has been removed leaving an overcompressed dry suckfest.

Bummer.

**Lindell** · 20th April 2008

well, the Maiden record didn't sound to good too, did it?

audiomichael · 20th April 2008

Dunno? Haven't heard it. Are you being sarcastic, or does it not sound good?

weemies · 20th April 2008

Yeah I mean the least they could have done is put the original Pull Me Under in there for the casual fans who would probably prefer to hear the song the way they remember it.

19th April 2008	#1
audiomichael Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2005 Location: L. A.-ish Posts: 2,165 Thread Starter	Eeeeks! New Dream Theater Greatest Hits remixes butchered!!! I was pretty excited to see that Kevin Shirley remixed 3 songs for the new Dream Theater Greatest Hit package. I downloaded the 3 from iTunes, and am blown away by how bad they sound. I had to go back to make sure I wasn't mistaken that maybe they were the original band recorded demos or something. Nope, just really crappy mixes. I'm about 50/50 on Shirley's mixing. When it's good it's stellar (Led Zep's How The West Was Won, or Silverchair's Frogstomp), when this is just wrong. It's like they couldn't possibly turn the snare up any higher, and all depth and body has been removed leaving an overcompressed dry suckfest. Bummer. __________________ Michael David Nielsen - Composer / Producer / Lover ...of gear http://michaelnielsenmusic.com/

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20th April 2008	#2
Lindell Moderator Joined: Jun 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,453	well, the Maiden record didn't sound to good too, did it?

20th April 2008	#4
weemies Gear nut Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 120	Yeah I mean the least they could have done is put the original Pull Me Under in there for the casual fans who would probably prefer to hear the song the way they remember it.