Garrett H wrote on Thu, 07 April 2005 09:14 |
The next day Marcussen called the producer. He was gushing with excitement about the prospect of mastering an album vs. crushing it. Needless to say, Marcussen's team got the CD and did a nice job.
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Korn "Issues" and Rage "Battle ..." were produced and mastered by the same team ... and they sound very similar. Was the producer or ME resposible?
With Audioslave, Meller was chosen over a host of others by Mr. Rubin ... so is it Vlados fault that the choruses are over the top? Did he know what was needed to win the job or just go overboard on his own and it was liked?
The ACDC Back in BLack remaster by Marino ... who made the call to make it so dark and so limited?
Bowie 'Reality' and Chili Peppers 'Californication' ... who ordered these up, when these ESTABLISHED artists did not need RMS to get anyones attention?
Is fear in charge of everything?
After spinning this around I have no idea who is most afraid, but I do know that fear is not an energy that sells anything except horror flicks. Yet on the big stage the loudness fear is real. It's technically naive, commercially counterproductive and musically sad but a serious reality where reasonable men assume that big money is riding on the levels being -7, not -9, or heaven forbid -11 rms.
Does anyone REALLY mind turning up a knob by 1/32nd enough to justify trashing the hard work of talented players and engineers. Are most of the A+R folks really that way? Do they want to sell records or play power games?
Maybe it's all the digital volume buttons that are responsible? A knob turn is fine ... but pushing the UP button is hard work