Bass Master "K"
New member
This has been bugging me the last year and today is the day I can't take it anymore!
What the hell is the deal with the current record industry compressing the crap and squishing every listenable ounce of life out of all the new records, making them high end sizzletracks that sound like piss? I'm driving in my pickup today, listening to the local hard rock station on a Kenwood with Alpine speakers, so it's not like the equiptment is bad, (and it's not the first time I noticed this just the first time I really gave it thought) and it seemed like all I could hear is the freaking cymbals, the high end of the guitar, and sizzling crap for the rest of it. I turned the bass up to mellow it a bit but it still sounded like hell. After about three songs, I can't take it anymore. I flip to the classic rock station and some Zep is playing and GOD DID IT SOUND GOOD. I noticed my body instantly relaxing and my ears were in heaven. Long gone was the tinny cymbals, and low and behold I could hear the guitar and the vocals crystal clear. It sounded pure and sweet. I flip back to the other station...crap....back to classic....bliss. And it's not like I didn't like the band playing on the radio, I own their CD.
Why do records have to be "loud"? Isn't that what the volume knob is for? I don't need someone to do it for me. When will this end? Will the trend ever reverse? Will engineers ever stand up and say enough is enough? Will someone stop the madness!!??
Is this just me? I'm almost sorry I have gotten into recording because now I listen for this stuff so carefully when I record that now I can't not listen for it in other music I hear. I'm starting to think ignorance was bliss.
I don't know, maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, but now I'm worried everytime I get in and listen I'm going to freaking hate it. Maybe I need to invest in a 15 band equalizer and set the shape in the reverse of the usual smile to try to counteract their "ear terrorism", my new "contemporary" phrase for what they are doing to todays music. But even an equalizer can't counteract all that compression
"Ear Terrorism" and "Sizzletracks" are now trademarked by Bass Master "K"
What the hell is the deal with the current record industry compressing the crap and squishing every listenable ounce of life out of all the new records, making them high end sizzletracks that sound like piss? I'm driving in my pickup today, listening to the local hard rock station on a Kenwood with Alpine speakers, so it's not like the equiptment is bad, (and it's not the first time I noticed this just the first time I really gave it thought) and it seemed like all I could hear is the freaking cymbals, the high end of the guitar, and sizzling crap for the rest of it. I turned the bass up to mellow it a bit but it still sounded like hell. After about three songs, I can't take it anymore. I flip to the classic rock station and some Zep is playing and GOD DID IT SOUND GOOD. I noticed my body instantly relaxing and my ears were in heaven. Long gone was the tinny cymbals, and low and behold I could hear the guitar and the vocals crystal clear. It sounded pure and sweet. I flip back to the other station...crap....back to classic....bliss. And it's not like I didn't like the band playing on the radio, I own their CD.
Why do records have to be "loud"? Isn't that what the volume knob is for? I don't need someone to do it for me. When will this end? Will the trend ever reverse? Will engineers ever stand up and say enough is enough? Will someone stop the madness!!??
Is this just me? I'm almost sorry I have gotten into recording because now I listen for this stuff so carefully when I record that now I can't not listen for it in other music I hear. I'm starting to think ignorance was bliss.
I don't know, maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, but now I'm worried everytime I get in and listen I'm going to freaking hate it. Maybe I need to invest in a 15 band equalizer and set the shape in the reverse of the usual smile to try to counteract their "ear terrorism", my new "contemporary" phrase for what they are doing to todays music. But even an equalizer can't counteract all that compression
"Ear Terrorism" and "Sizzletracks" are now trademarked by Bass Master "K"