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Originally Posted by kingofkings
hey Doby, why do they even bother doing albums this way? like why do they go in wanting to compress it so much, and just not do it the more natural breathable way? I'm surprised about this because Rob Evans was in on the mixing, and all his live mixing he does for the band is not overly compressed correct? this goes with our conversation we had before about that. it seems all the early LT are extra loud, and Evans mixed LT are more breathable; no hissing on Dave's S's, not as loud, you can turn it up past what you would normally have it on. surprises me CT was done this way. do they just say to themselves we want this to sound loud, and then overly compress it?
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I believe it's one of the following:
1) They (Dave / Flohr) think people like it this way despite no-one ever petitioning the music industry to do so
2) They like it this way
3) They think it will make their album stand out more on the radio (it does the opposite)
It's not the exact same team when it comes to the LT releases and that team has been more receptive to feedback and has reached IMO an acceptable compromise (short of offering two masterings) between loud and dynamic; most LTs are usually scoring between DR8-10 on the TT meter whereas the last three studio albums have been 6 (CT) and 7 (BWGK/AFTW).
As for Evans' involvement, without having access to the unmastered version of CT we can't say for certain how much of this is the mixing teams fault and how much is the mastering engineer's fault. In my experience, from the few examples we have from artists where a mix has gotten out there, it's almost always the mastering engineer which for this album is Brad Blackwood @ Euphonic Masters.
I don't think Dave has much of a clue about this stuff and if he wants it slammed, they slam it.