LA_MERC_Cowboy_From_Hell
September 15th, 2008, 09:58 PM
Ok, now that the album is "officially" released some things have been pointed in ALOT of diffrent places.
****IF YOU HAVE THE CD AND ARE COMPLETELY HAPPY WITH IT DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER!!!*****
If you listened to the leaked version you may or may not have heard some distortion and clipping in some of the songs. The big violators being The Day That Never Comes and The Judas Kiss.
When I first heard the leak CD I loved the songs! I was so happy to have new GOOD Metallica. After several listens I started hearing things that didn't seem right to me. Couldn't put my finger on it but something was amiss.
Reading the Metallica boards ( http://www.metallicabb.com/index.php ), other people heard the same things I did and discussions popped up. There was the group that said it's just a crappy rip of the CD and that was the problem. Others said no, it was a production issue and detailed how using any wave form tool you could see the songs were bricks instead of whatyou would expect to see.
Now that the "real" CD is out people are going apenutz about the production. The engineer who mastered it is distancing himself (alledgedly) from the CD saying the masters he got CAME to him brickwalled and he wasn't happy.
There are petitions flying around the internet ( http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/re-mix-or-remaster-death-magnetic.html ) and legitimate professional sound engineers are speaking up and posting about it ( http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/2008/09/metallica-death-magnetic-clipping.html ). This thing is really gathering steam. I didn't realize it but reading about this issue with Dbs pegged it not new. I guess its been going on for years and has gotten progressively worse as time has passed. Death Magnetic aparently is one of the worst offenders to date.
Me personally, the CD gives me a headache when I listen to it too long. That's a HORRIBLE shame because it's AWESOME musically. If you guys want to sign the petition, great. If not thats cool too but this "sound war" that is going on is ruining ALL music, not just metal. I guess Rick Rubin produced a Neil Diamond album recently that had this problem and the album was recalled. Interestingly enough, Rick Rubin produced this CD as well. His name has repeatedly popped up as being involved with several albums that have this issue.
just thought I'd share and see if any of you noticed this with the retail release.
****IF YOU HAVE THE CD AND ARE COMPLETELY HAPPY WITH IT DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER!!!*****
If you listened to the leaked version you may or may not have heard some distortion and clipping in some of the songs. The big violators being The Day That Never Comes and The Judas Kiss.
When I first heard the leak CD I loved the songs! I was so happy to have new GOOD Metallica. After several listens I started hearing things that didn't seem right to me. Couldn't put my finger on it but something was amiss.
Reading the Metallica boards ( http://www.metallicabb.com/index.php ), other people heard the same things I did and discussions popped up. There was the group that said it's just a crappy rip of the CD and that was the problem. Others said no, it was a production issue and detailed how using any wave form tool you could see the songs were bricks instead of whatyou would expect to see.
Now that the "real" CD is out people are going apenutz about the production. The engineer who mastered it is distancing himself (alledgedly) from the CD saying the masters he got CAME to him brickwalled and he wasn't happy.
There are petitions flying around the internet ( http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/re-mix-or-remaster-death-magnetic.html ) and legitimate professional sound engineers are speaking up and posting about it ( http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/2008/09/metallica-death-magnetic-clipping.html ). This thing is really gathering steam. I didn't realize it but reading about this issue with Dbs pegged it not new. I guess its been going on for years and has gotten progressively worse as time has passed. Death Magnetic aparently is one of the worst offenders to date.
Me personally, the CD gives me a headache when I listen to it too long. That's a HORRIBLE shame because it's AWESOME musically. If you guys want to sign the petition, great. If not thats cool too but this "sound war" that is going on is ruining ALL music, not just metal. I guess Rick Rubin produced a Neil Diamond album recently that had this problem and the album was recalled. Interestingly enough, Rick Rubin produced this CD as well. His name has repeatedly popped up as being involved with several albums that have this issue.
just thought I'd share and see if any of you noticed this with the retail release.