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  1. Not for the faint of heart
  2. To me, Born in the USA and Tunnel of Love are head and shoulders above Born to Run sonically. Bob>>>>>>Jimmy
  3. I lol'd. I will say that even though PF is one of my top 4, I would not have steered it that way. Edit: And going back to the premise of the thread I don't think Born to Run is a top example of a well mixed album, even among Bruce albums. FWIW
  4. By far my favorite bit from Dark Side is how they got the loop for Money correct. They had to setup 4 machines in a circle, and move them while cutting tape until it was the right length lol.
  5. Well, time for my daily check on r/leopardsatemyface
  6. M49. Dave Jerden just passed btw, was a great dude.
  7. Actually no. Digital has given us tools to mangle sound in easier ways, and different storage media (vinyl did have physical limitations) but as Paul alluded to, this has roots in terrestrial radio. Specifically in New York in the 70s. Multiband compression, which was invented by a guy named Mike Dorrough, allowed stations to really compress the sound without pumping, which is an artifact of heavy compression. Without getting to in the weeds, different frequencies have different energies, low frequency carrying more, so dividing the frequency band into smaller slices you can compression them more even and achieve a higher average level. So why this is important is people perceive louder as better, for a time, due to Fletcher Munson. Like Paul said, a band will come back and cry if their song isn't as loud as the next guy because they perceive it as worse. Also why commercials are so loud. other side of the coin is its ultimately fatiguing. The real start of this is by a guy named Larry Berger who was a program director at a NY station back in the day. He was the first to apply multiband compression to broadcast radio because he knew being louder would get listeners. And it just spiraled from there. The RHCP album Californication is really recognized as album that went over the top, and Death Magnetic as the loudest ever. As I said though in the second post of the thread people have backed off it quite a bit, it's been pretty well recognized as not good. Not that its great now by any stretch, but at least the problem has been recognized. I honestly wasn't 100% sure where ztejas was going with this, but I suspected the brickwall limiting may have been it, which is why I brought that up initially.
  8. G650

    Led Zeppelin

    Motorhead is playing the Superbowl?
  9. Yeah I'm good now
  10. Desktop is good, mobile borked for me.
  11. The problem with that view, and I know plenty of people who espouse it, is it's empirically incorrect. Under Obama, the government and society functioned as it was supposed to, even if you didn't agree with it. Under Trump the government cannot even provide basic services correctly.
  12. It's funny, because this actually raises a point that is always in the back of my mind when these discussion invariably arise, that of what is pleasing to the ear. Fidelity has increased measurably, but that isn't what makes something pleasing necessarily. The way in which a lot of old gear distorted the sound was actually what made it so appealing (I realize you know this, this is just talking to the group), old Neve saturation, how tape knocked of the highs, etc.. I find delicious irony in the proliferation of saturation plugins to mimic the shortcomings of old gear. Of course the ease of working digital is a big selling point, but I still get a chuckle when I think about it.
  13. I was actually having this conversation a few weeks ago, maybe on Gear Page, maybe gearspace, can't remember, but either way, it used to be you recorded with "the" console. Which to me gives a unified sound. I am sympathetic to the argument that you can use different flavors for different things, but it's just not my preferred way of working. That said, I do have a few 1073s, 4 Daking, 4 API 512s myself, so I guess I'm not immune. IIRC Paul had a rack of outboard 1073s? Anyhoo, you forgot the greatest, the Trident A Range.
  14. G650

    Led Zeppelin

    Anyone know when it's gonna hit the streams?
  15. I'm not sure where you are getting that from, mixing is at a higher level now than it's ever been. You are probably talking more about stylistic choices, though I believe that the peak loudness war has probably passed. Just off the top of my head, go listen to the latest Chris Stapleton album. Vance Powell did an amazing job.
  16. Very rapidly, it seems.
  17. G650

    Pink Floyd

    I think Guy has played more Pink Floyd on bass than Roger at this point.
  18. Eh. Breed was a decent song. The only thing that would have made In Utero decent was leaving the Albini mix
  19. Cobain was done done before In Utero even came out. I'm not sure I've ever been more disappointed in a release than that album.
  20. Clearly the latter
  21. The weirdest thing about this argument you guys are having is it's predicated on the assumption that Twitter is relevant to, well, anything, anymore.
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