[Music] Ah ... that would explain some of it.

[dancefloorlandmine]

Well, that's one reason why Metallica's latest album sounded so drab. Have a look at the clipping shown by the graphs on this link (from September, but I'd not followed to it before). Far far too much compression. Ouch. Maybe with a re-mixing, it might sound less average. Although I (obviously) think that they should have let Mr Trujillo put his own bass approach to work ...

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[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I suspect that "a bit stupid" could be a contender for "Great Understatements". [sigh]

[billyabbott.livejournal.com]

There was a bunch of talk on a variety of forums about how the Guitar Hero mix of the album was significantly better because it was a lot less clipped, including comments from the sound engineer to that effect.

I thought it was my generally awesome headphones not handling the Awesome Bass Phatness(tm), but it seems that was not the case.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Heh. Like the icon!

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

The music industry has been heading this way for years. The problem is that most of the public don't notice the compression unless it's ridiculous, and a lot of recent music doesn't have a great dynamic range anyway. So people have developed a louder=better attitude at the expense of the dynamics, and equipment manufacturers (at the cheaper end of the market) follow suit. Why make a hi-fi that can handle a large dynamic range if none of the music has it...