Icepick - that’s extremely common these days. Some folks decided to crank the CD loudness, because apparently, turning up the volume is too hard(?). Unfortantually, it gives people a headache, due to fatigue pretty quickly. Just another reason why the current music regime needs to die.
Sho 'nuff. I think a lot of people these days confuse digital sound quality with ZOMG CRANK IT TO ELEVEN111!!
There’s a difference between richer sound and boosted levels.
so this clipping issue is the mixers fault and not part of rick rubins plan or something
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“The End Of The Line”
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get the guitar hero III rip, it sounds amazing compared to cd and vinyls.
[reply]Check this out!
“The End Of The Line”
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compression. shitloads of it. just like ministry.
yeah but it’s actually not so bad on ministry records 1999 onwards. i thought animositisomina was the most compressed record. but it sounds amazing compared to death magnetic. you can actually hear clipping on that one.
oh if anybody on here thinks the songs are too long and repetative, look onlne for the “cutted” version of the album… so guy shortened all the songs to like 5 minutes and cut out the unnneccesary (in his view) repetitions and whatnot…
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Yeah, I like it for how easy it is to manipulate waves with this software. I think Merzbow uses it too, coincidentally!
I use it 8-10 hours a day! It’s the only thing if you need to do really detailed waveform editing.
Icepick - that’s extremely common these days. Some folks decided to crank the CD loudness, because apparently, turning up the volume is too hard(?). Unfortantually, it gives people a headache, due to fatigue pretty quickly. Just another reason why the current music regime needs to die.
I know most music out there is mastered unnecessarily loud, but I think this takes the cake as far as noticeably audible distortion and clipping.
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I’ve been holding a glimmer of hope that the GH tracks wouldn’t have been mastered as shitty as the CD. I might actually download them tonight to check out.
[hr][font “Verdana,Arial,Helvetica”][size 1]In Reply To[/size][/font][hr]Sho 'nuff. I think a lot of people these days confuse digital sound quality with ZOMG CRANK IT TO ELEVEN111!!
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I don’t understand why they have to master everything so fucking loud. I mean, do they think we don’t have volume knobs on our stereos?
I had no idea the album was out already. So yay or no? Did they pull an Al and try too hard for a Master of Puppets II (many years later) and miserably fail?
More like …And Justice For All II. I don’t think they could go as far back in time, mindset-wise, as MoP.
The consensus opinion is that it’s the best thing they’ve done since '92 or whenever the self-titled one came out. There’s a few “Blarrgghh, this is shittier than St. Anger!!!” types out there, but not too many. I suspect those types were predisposed to hate anything with the Metallica name on it anyway.
Not an attitude anyone on THIS board would be familiar with, of course…[sly]
Aside from a few weak tracks, so-so lyrics, and a been-there-done-that single, I’m on the ‘best album since Justice’ train. Hard to compare it to the Black album. Enter Sandman was a way stronger lead-off single, that’s for sure.
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Over at Demonoid there’s a version of Death Magnetic ripped from the Guitar Hero III download, mastered at the proper volume. Just listening to the first song, I already hear basslines that I hadn’t noticed before, and you can definitely hear the difference the moment the drums kick in. Do yourself a favor and download this now, then never listen to the CD again.
I grabbed this myself today thinking the same thing… I wonder how the break in Suicide & Redemption will sound, I just skimmed the first couple tracks earlier.
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Over at Demonoid there’s a version of Death Magnetic ripped from the Guitar Hero III download, mastered at the proper volume. Just listening to the first song, I already hear basslines that I hadn’t noticed before, and you can definitely hear the difference the moment the drums kick in. Do yourself a favor and download this now, then never listen to the CD again.
Pity Demonoid hates me. [laugh]
I’ll give it a shot.
Hunter was it just me or was both the JH/KH suicide tracks the same? I didn’t notice any difference on a cursory listen…
both gh3 suicides differ in ONE solo that is closer to the end, while JH’s being far superior than KH’s same old noisy wah-wah wankery.
thepiratebay has great 48khz flac rip that was recorded from xbox360’s digital output with NO mistakes at all…
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4399611/Metallica_-Death_Magnetic(perfect_FLAC_recordings_from_GH3)
yes, but I don’t need two versions of that one song is all 