Who Over-compressed The Kook's Inside In Inside Out?

rwhitney · 22nd September 2006

I just got this CD at the recommendation of a teenage girl on Youtube (who goes by the name of jinxyjo)--so I'm not particularly surprised, but I'm still appalled by how smashed most of it is. It's not classic music, maybe, but I think it would have sounded alright if it hadn't been so brutally and unnecessarily compressed. I don't mean to offend anyone--it's just my taste.

Anybody involved with this CD who would defend or lament it here? Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering; mix engineer, Michael Brauer?

MHB850 · 23rd September 2006

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Originally Posted by rwhitney

I just got this CD at the recommendation of a teenage girl on Youtube (who goes by the name of jinxyjo)--so I'm not particularly surprised, but I'm still appalled by how smashed most of it is. It's not classic music, maybe, but I think it would have sounded alright if it hadn't been so brutally and unnecessarily compressed. I don't mean to offend anyone--it's just my taste.

Anybody involved with this CD who would defend or lament it here? Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering; mix engineer, Michael Brauer?

yah, it was mastered 5 different times and they insisted on it being really loud. I gave up and walked away after after the first mastering. I mixed a batch and so did the producer. I can't listen to it either, just my taste too. Some of the bands i'm mixing aren't happy until it's brutally pumped. Some listeners are gonna hate it but it's what the band wants. For the most part, I stay away from those kind of records.

rwhitney · 23rd September 2006

Thanks for sharing this story--I guess it's as I expected. Compression is out of control.

22nd September 2006	#1
rwhitney Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Irvine, CA Posts: 1,035 Thread Starter	Who Over-compressed The Kook's Inside In Inside Out? I just got this CD at the recommendation of a teenage girl on Youtube (who goes by the name of jinxyjo)--so I'm not particularly surprised, but I'm still appalled by how smashed most of it is. It's not classic music, maybe, but I think it would have sounded alright if it hadn't been so brutally and unnecessarily compressed. I don't mean to offend anyone--it's just my taste. Anybody involved with this CD who would defend or lament it here? Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering; mix engineer, Michael Brauer? __________________ Ross Whitney (non-professional) rwhitney@uci.edu

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23rd September 2006	#3
rwhitney Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Irvine, CA Posts: 1,035 Thread Starter	Thanks for sharing this story--I guess it's as I expected. Compression is out of control.