What's the worst professional mainstream mix you've heard

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DARKLANDS by Jesus And The Mary Chain

someone call the reverb police!
 
Wilco's Yankee Foxtrot Hotel..Man,thats a hard recording to listen to on so many levels!AudioSlave,the mastering appears to be the murderer..
 
This thread is in danger of becoming silly. It started out as a nice thread about bad mixes...etc etc.
 
I don't know if this'll piss anybody off, but a lot of Marylin Manson stuff is absolutely horrible sounding. I mean I enjoy about half his music, but either way, it's EXTREMELY compressed with no dynamics...sounds likes it's constantly on the verge of clipping, and it doesn't feel as though it was mixed to give room for any one instrument. You just here a wall of crappy sound that never ever changes. That and Rob Zombie...another example of how you can make digital music a bit to fake sounding. I liked white zombie...but not Rob Zombie's latest stuff.
 
Hubbawho said:
I don't know if this'll piss anybody off, but a lot of Marylin Manson stuff is absolutely horrible sounding. ......... I liked white zombie...but not Rob Zombie's latest stuff.
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I think we can all pretty much agree on this.
Yes, I speak for everyone.
 
Did I answer this post before? Yes, I think so.

I remember, in the late-70's, or about 1980-81, I spent a long time and returned many albums for exchange, trying to find a copy of David Bowie's "Lodger" album that did not have this horrendous tape-hiss on side B. That's the album with the song "DJ", a minor radio hit, if you remember (?)

Anyway, after about 5 or 6 exchanges of that album, I decided that they all had the hiss. This was a vinyl 12", 33-1/3 LP album, an RCA Records release at the time. I believe the subsequent releases of "Lodger" on RCA CD, and later Rykodisc, had resolved the "hiss" problem that the vinyl album had earlier.

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Also, for one of the most classic albums of all time, Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" is swimming in audible tape hiss, both on LP and CD. However, the "Aqualung" album stands as a classic on it's own merits, as some of the strongest and deepest songwriting and recording of the decade, and of decades since.

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Did I post these comments previously?

;)
 
I'd say Manson's Antichrist Superstar. His later two albums (Mechanical Animals and Holywood) both had far superior mixing and mastering treatment. ACSS just sounds muddy the whole time. He released a greatest hits recently that has two tracks off ACSS that apparently have been remastered and just shows how great that album should have sounded.
 
lykwydchykyn said:
Living Colour's first album sounds pretty bad in retrospect. Digital reverb city. The guitar sound reminds me of someone beating a galvanized trash can. Cool band, though...
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Are you deaf? That album sounds great.

tim
 
White Stripes

Their latest "Get behind me Satan" is pretty bad as far as sounds go.

I love the one with 7 Nation Army on it - "Elephant" I think.

tim
 
Ryan Adams -Rock n Roll.
The guitar sound makes me want to cover my ears.
 
Black Sabbath:

The first few Black Sabbath albums released to Cd are decidedly lofi, including:
-Black Sabbath
-Master of Reality
-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
-Paranoid
-Sabotage

It's some awesomely great music, some of my favorite music, but they're very lofi recordings in comparison to other hifi examples of Cd fidelity.
 
Any pre-1990s Eric Clapton album. Clapton may be God, but whoever his producers were were agents of the devil sent to spread midrange hell on this mortal sphere. I swear that stuff was EQd to sound good only on AM radio.

G.
 
Cloneboy Studio said:
Heh. To each their own.

The bass lines aren't indistinguishable--there ARE NO BASSLINES on the album at all! Hetfield and Ulrich muted them to spite Newsted because of Cliff dying. They have gone on record about this. Single stupidest act of self-sabotage a band has ever committed.
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The bass lines aren't muted lol.
Sure they are VERY QUIET...but they are there.
 
i agree that the new white stripes sounds like ass. wierd mix, out of time sections. i also dont care for the over production of the first mars volta band. good band, good songs, way over produced. vox effect changes for ever line.
 
d(-_-)b-Phones said:
The worst is Acid Bath, When the kite string pops.

hands down.
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how dare you say such things?
i have to go cry now. :(
 
I just wanted to chime in and say that ...and Justice For All might be poorly recorded and all that...but the songs are top shit. Those are metal symphonies of high qulaity. After that I think they did the black album which I hated. A lot of people thought Metallica sold out with Justice, but they didn't really do that until the black stuff. But by that stage they could sell whatever they wanted. Shit, Justice is an album full of 7, 8 and 9 minute songs...I don't know what middle of the road market they were supposed to have sold out to back in '88

I know the thread is about recording quality, but I don't think recording quality is a measure of substance. But true, it's good to talk about, because we're all at least interested in virtuoso recording and mastering.

Anyway, rock on Metallica, rock on like it was 1988 all over again
 
Anything Dr Dre produces is pure sonic quality at it's best.
He's rap's most talented producer.

So FUCK what your talkin about, the fuck you know anyways, you've got hearing loss, and only record bullshit indie bands with names like Zipper Fly and Random **** Hair.

Fuck you.
 
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