Top 5 Worst Recorded/Engineered CD's of 2002

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Weezer - Maladroit

I love some of the songs, but it seems like they put no effort whatsoever into the production.
 
RHCP - BTW (I think enough has been said that I don't need to bother).

Audioslave - (Amazing songs, amazing playing, God like singing, but the mix SUCKS BALLS).

That is all the ones I know.

Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
Light said:


Audioslave - (Amazing songs, amazing playing, God like singing, but the mix SUCKS BALLS).
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I disgree with that, I like the Audioslave mixes!! They sound warm and analog with the right punch. The voice is really overcompressed, but it is done quite good and it was obviously an intentional choice. The weren't afraid to go back to the analog sound: Warm compression, even some hiss now and then but a very punchy record.

I agree with RHCP. Although over here they got excellent reviews, I crave for their BSSM period...
 
BrettB said:
I disgree with that, I like the Audioslave mixes!! They sound warm and analog with the right punch. The voice is really overcompressed, but it is done quite good and it was obviously an intentional choice. The weren't afraid to go back to the analog sound: Warm compression, even some hiss now and then but a very punchy record.

I agree with RHCP. Although over here they got excellent reviews, I crave for their BSSM period...
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I love the record, but the thread was about the mix. The whole damn thing is seriously over compressed to my ear. Good Analog does NOT hiss, by the way. That is just Morello's guitar.

Both the RHCP and Audioslave have the same problem, Rick Rubin. He actually seems to LIKE the over compressed shit. He did not always do this, but oh well.

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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
Light said:
I love the record, but the thread was about the mix.
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Well, I said I liked the mix. But we can talk for hours about it and eventually it is just a matter of taste.

The record is idd a little overcompressed, but it doesn't really bother me. I even think the use of Chris' his voice needs this kind of compression to be on top of the music.

When I meant warmth and hiss in this compression, I was really referring to the vocals. Assumin g, you have the vocals, just use the song 'Exploder' as an example. At the end when you here Chris sing/scat 'dattinidawadattinidawa' (or something like that) you have this compressed block where even a small swallow from him is picked up in this compressed block, but it sounds really warm and ok for that music.

Btw, I'm a hughe Morello fan so I am familiar with his guitar work:rolleyes: .

On the other hand, on BTW the overcompression really bothers me.

As Rubin being the producer, I wonder how much he interferes in the mixing stadium though.
 
My best guess would be that Rubin is starting to lose his hearing, just based on comparing his recordings over time.
 
come on

Guys, seriously, some of the albums you mention are world class.

The n'sync record is a huge production. We'd be so lucky to record an album like that.

A great album is PUMP from Aerosmith.

Any Filter album rocks.

Everybody knocks Lenny Kravitz production but the bass drum craps out, etc... but he's got balls and has guts to try stuff that's different!

If you want shit production listen to my stuff!!
 
Yeah, I'd love to work on an 'NSync album. I really would. That doesn't mean it sounds like crap. It's all the processes they do in Alsihad that do it. They have to make everything, timing, tune, everything exactly on the dot for some reason. So they correct the living fuck out of it. And then they compress the shit out of it, and who knows what else. That doesn't mean I wouldn't kill to work on a big album like that.
 
Anything I heard by Creed sounded hella bad. Scretching highs.

I'm not a big fan of compression (tho' I use it a LOT myself. :D ). It's all over the radio tho'.
 
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