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

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Mo-Kay said:
Dr Dre makes great mixes, has great engineers, too.The latest Eminem albums might have sound a little plastic....but stuff like The Marshall Mathers LP sounds excellent IMO.



Ok back on topic:

Common - Be

not fot mixing, but for mastering...classic album, but the sonic quality is way below par.
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Hey Mo.

Maybe it's just me, but I think Encore was supposed to sound plastic. Look at most of the songs on the album. Not Eminem's usual style, so I honestly thought this was done just to see if they could get away with it. I think Dre should go back to making productions like 2001 and the Marshall Mathers LP. Those two were great in my opinion. Did you notice that the plastic sound started about halfway through The Eminem Show?
 
Imo

I think sound is very important, but at the same time, good music is good music. i mean, pet sounds to me has a bad hiss the whole time and is not the greatest sounding album, but at the same time it is an amazing album.
many of the albums mentioned above maybe are not techincally great sounding records, but a lot of them are really good and i listen to them all the time (although not on my $10,000 hi fi system, just a car here).

what do some of you think are the greatest sounding rap albums of all time are ? i saw someone mentioned public enemy, who else do you all think???
 
tommy mas said:
I think sound is very important, but at the same time, good music is good music. i mean, pet sounds to me has a bad hiss the whole time and is not the greatest sounding album, but at the same time it is an amazing album.
many of the albums mentioned above maybe are not techincally great sounding records, but a lot of them are really good and i listen to them all the time (although not on my $10,000 hi fi system, just a car here).

what do some of you think are the greatest sounding rap albums of all time are ? i saw someone mentioned public enemy, who else do you all think???
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rap... i dunno. the only rap i like is underground hip hop/rap stuff... Dub narcotic Sound systems, Prefuse 73.. i dunno maybe people have heard of them.

I personally think pet sounds is one of the greatest sounding records out there... i dont know what the general opinion of it is, especially around here, but i love it.
 
Kasey said:
To me, something under-produced is more enjoyable than something over-produced. I'm a big fan of groups like The Microphones, Mirah, Xiu Xiu, Iron & Wine... etc. etc... All groups that make really awesome stuff using equipment that is on par with my own home studio. Theyre not all worried about using the latest and greatest, isolating every microphone, trying to get everything "balanced"... balanced... why should art have to be symmetrical? Sam Beam of Iron & Wine records on an analog four track, and his sound is just perfect, tape hiss and everything. it all adds in, and works perfectly for his voice and his music. I'll agree that bands that try to get an overproduced sound and fail end up with an absolutely terrible sound 99% of the time.

what was the question again?
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I whole heartedly agree.

Perfect example: Fat Possum Records' blues albums (haven't listened to much of their other artists so can't comment)

The albums aren't sonically the best (just turn up Easy Rider by Scott Dunbar and enjoy that hiss and listen to that foot stomping) but for what they lack in sonic quality they more than make up for in feeling and emotional content. Without Scott's foot tapping in that previous example the song would be completely different. Then again, I guess this sort of recording goes hand in hand with the blues. Especially that raw, dirty and gritty delta blues.

It's recordings like these that inspire me. Recording in an auto repair garage with an SM57 or equivalent and a borrowed spark plug socket to play slide with (Asie Payton) sure as shit beats sitting in some stuffy studio getting charged up the ying yang while some band of assholes (who you know is gonna make you pull out that Neumann) is waiting outside to get in to record their next big hit.

Newbie rant over. :)
 
Hi, Friends. My opinion:

-Some albums of Capercaillie (Pop- Celtic music): "To the moon", " beautiful wasteland", the drums, the bass, the acoustic instruments, the vocal... all are great!

- I agree with "blood sugar sex magic", by Red Hot Chilli Pippers.

- "Rock steady", No Doubt.... no comments.

- Prince, in general, over all i like "love symbol".

- Screaming Headless Torsos, the first album "screaming headless torsos", but they are great musicians, and that can help to the engineer. :)

- Alejandro Sanz " no es lo mismo", all except the drums, I think that can.... sound better?? different? For example, the bass drum sounds artificial, typical eq for bass drum, low-mids down and high´s with narrow Q (metal style). I think this can to be a compromise with the magic bass of Anthony Jackson, their Fodera´s sound is too big!! :)

Excuse my bad english.
 
The Used

There have been plenty of albums I haven't liked or with sub par mixes, but the only one I heard that was unlistenable was "The Used"'s first album. It was super super compressed, and thats coming from a fan of Thursday, AFI and Jimmy Eat World. Tons of top end fizz and harshness, no real body to the music. Very processed and not in a good way. Not a great band but any chance of sounding decent was ruined in the studio.
 
The re-mastered version of Operation:Mindcrime is actually painful to my ears. Listening fatigue after about one minute, then pain. The album was not like this.
 
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