I was reading a thread down the board, where someone mentioned that some of the songs on rearviewmirror were remastered not remixed. That nowadays people who mix albums tend to bring all the levels up.

I'd also been thinking about this, and why newer albums don't seem sound as good. Is it because there aren't lower lows and higher highs? If they crank everything as loud as you can mix it with cd technology, how do you differentiate quite from loud parts?

Some of my favorote mixing is brendan o'brien's stuff. Vs/Vitalogy/Yield

STP's purple sounds great, even Springsteens last album didn't sound too bad.

Why do producers feel the need to crank up the volume on the recording? It's not like we don't have volume control. Its kinda nice when stuff isn't mixed so everything is cranked. I think newer mixing techniques sound a little blander.

could just be me.. I'm not saying it was a bad idea to remix the songs from ten, they sound pretty good on RVM. I was just thinking of albums in general.

amen

dynamic range is totally underrated

those songs were re-mixed. overall re-mastering would have taken place for most tracks due to the age they were made, some would be too quiet in comparison.

the problem with modern recordings is compression, everything is compressed to buggery so the quite parts are equally loud as the loud parts, its gay and you lose all dynamics. pj arent too bad for this though, even riot act isnt as loud as most rock records these days.

double post