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Ted Jensen who mastered "Death Magnetic" answered as follows to a guy who asked him about the painful digital distortion heard on the record :
"Thanks for writing.
I’m certainly sympathetic to your reaction, I get to slam my head against that brick wall every day. In this case the mixes were already brick walled before they arrived at my place. Suffice it to say I would never be pushed to overdrive things as far as they are here. Believe me I’m not proud to be associated with this one, and we can only hope that some good will come from this in some form of backlash against volume above all else.
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/327786-death-magnetic.html
Death Magnetic is a fantastic effort from Metallica, however many of us are disappointed by the poor audio quality present on the album. Having heard samples from Guitar Hero 3, it is clear that something can be done to redeem this album. The album sounds 100x better on a video game than it does on CD or vinyl!Please sign this petition so that we can hopefully either get it remastered, or re-mixed, depending on where the problems occurred at some point, or to ensure that the next Metallica album does not suffer from the same issues, or get caught up in the loudness war that is ruining modern music.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/re-mix-or-remaster-death-magnetic/sign.html
Så vad säger om det här?
Jag förstår att folk blir brydda över att ljudet peakar lite nu och då. Själv så har jag varit ganska audiofilnördig i mina dagar (fråga Kristoffer). Den breda massan lär dock inte bry sig så hårt. Jag menar, lyssnar folk på dåligt komprimerade mp3'or så lär det ju knappast vara något problem. Hemligheten är att blåsa på stereon till minst 110dB. Då tänker man inte lika mycket på den ofrivilliga distorsionen som existerar. :)
SvaraRaderaHåller med David. "Man" är van, och själv tycker jag att det går bra, men ibland stör jag mig faktiskt mycket på det. Skärpan i många riff och andra prylar går bort lite grann i all digital distortion som uppstår.
SvaraRadera