Is it just me or...

Southwest_Statistic · Post by **Southwest_Statistic** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:00 pm

I spent some time today listening to some of my favorite Cd's from "back in the day". Like 1999.

In my mind commercial production hasn't really changed sence 1999. Then I started listening to them again. Listen to how bad the production gets on some of these huge commercial songs:

<a href="http://www.brusscom.com/misc/bad_production_0.mp3" target="_blank">SES - Every Sunday</a>
<a href="http://www.brusscom.com/misc/bad_production_1.mp3" target="_blank">Blink 182 - Adams Song</a>
<a href="http://www.brusscom.com/misc/bad_production_2.mp3" target="_blank">Tupac - Ambitions as a Rider</a>
<a href="http://www.brusscom.com/misc/bad_production_3.mp3" target="_blank">Incubus - Pardon Me</a>

On a couple of these, it sounds like typical SongFight production. What the hell.

EDIT: Upon thinking about it, alot of this seems to be a result of the loudness-race not having good enough software/hardware a few years ago...

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:55 am

"production" is not a specific, tangible thing you can explicitly listen for, like "vocals" or "drums" or "panning" ... what point exactly are you trying to make about these songs?

Southwest_Statistic · Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:05 pm

It sounds like the mix on every one of those songs was intentionally distorted during final mastering.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:22 pm

Southwest_Statistic wrote:It sounds like the mix on every one of those songs was intentionally distorted during final mastering.

The trappings of compressor/limiters