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Pretty sure that first MGMT album clips all over the place. And yeah I agree. That first SOAD album is an impressive piece of mastering though.
by boomskats 12y ago
Pretty sure that first MGMT album clips all over the place. And yeah I agree.
That first SOAD album is an impressive piece of mastering though.
- morganvachon 12y ago> Pretty sure that first MGMT album clips all over the place. I haven't heard their first album but I'm surprised at this. In my experience, most indie acts have greater creative control over mastering and just about every indie act I listen to (with the exception of some of the heavier stuff) is very light on the "loudness". By contrast, some of the more "pop" stuff I like, even songs that should be clean and distortion free, are unnecessarily jacked up way past the redline. A great example is John Mayer's "Heavier Things" album, with clipping and distortion on the lightest, cleanest tracks, and it gets worse with each of his albums after. It's frustrating because I know he's a brilliant musician who knows better, but I imagine it's the label who has the final creative control over what sound is heard on the CD.
- rev_null 12y agoIt was produced by Dave Fridmann, who is pretty notorious for mastering albums way too loud.