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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...

"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?

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

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

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