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Nothing by Metallica, apparently.
I heard a great podcast once, about sound and music quality and one episode they had the guy who mastered some of the Metallica albums and he was properly ranting about them.
He was trying to explain to them that "just making it louder" ruins the balance, and if people want it louder they can turn it up on their devices, but James was insistent that he turned all the dials up to 11, because louderer is betterer and only Metallica had the balls to make an album at 11 louds. And subsequently all the albums are clipped to hell and sound like ass.
Not music, but if youre into "sound" take a listen to these: https://www.20k.org/
The Metallica one is "Loudness Wars", but they are all good. I found the Netflix one (i think its called (Ta-dum) really interesting. In fact, they are all good, and all worth headphones.
Nothing by Metallica, apparently.
I'll try Nothing Else Matters and Turn The Page later
But not on YouTube
@Olly - a book I’ve referenced a few times, Perfecting Sound Forever, goes into the Loudness Wars in forensic detail, and is an essential read if you have any real interest in recorded music and it’s history. The very worst example of what you’re talking about is a Red Hot Chilli Peppers album, where there is no dynamic range at all, it’s just LOUD all the way through, purely to enable it to be heard through shitty little phone speakers.
Prepared to try a recommendation of a Sting track from this thread though, just to not be blinkered
Dream Of The Blue Turtles, Stings first solo album, is as good a place to start, it’s a great recording, the title track is really just a sort of instrumental jam, hence the laughing at the end
The Impressions - People Get Ready
Amazing how good some fairly old recordings sound, not sure if they've been remastered.
^ Thats due to using a combination of tape and non solid state equipment in the engineering/mastering process as there was a ceiling on db levels due to how poorly such equipment can handle being pushed beyond its limits.
Nice thread
I'm (hopefully) getting some reasonable new headphones at Christmas so will look forward to setting up a few trials via the Tidal.
What I love to hear on good equipment is the extra level of bass that every now and then seems to slide in from somewhere different to the what you think at the time is the deepest bass..
Also tracks that only start the deep bass quite a bit late in the track, such as
Sundays Can't be sure
Red hot chili peppers Hey
Going to post a few of my tunes as they've all been mixed through headphones, and that's how I prefer to listen and chill.
So always mix in some audio 'Easter eggs' that will only really be audible in cans.
Here's a sample, but there's 30+ tunes on my SoundCloud...
Listen to Music For Carports by Chien Andalou on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/u3nHN
Listen to Isolation 8 by Chien Andalou on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/7Xjws
Listen to Cassini Division by Chien Andalou on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/wushg
Listen to Isolation 15 pt.2 by Chien Andalou on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/LjN8n