Doubt it's his intention to put out a bad sounding disc. You know some of these guys get old, they don't know any better. A producer telling them it's got to be loud, tells them they need to sound like this or that or their album will slide off the face of the earth along with their careers (think of Tom Petty's last album), then they pretty much get talked into releasing this dreck.
I've been pretty disappointed by some of these classic artists releasing stuff sounding like this. I bought the lastest Pual Weller - 22 dreams - and it's heavily compressed and boosted. Metallic I expect this stuff but not some of these artists that previously exercised a little more subtlety. I bought the Amy Winehouse disc - Fade to Black. I have to say it's the most compressed super-boosted album I've ever seen. The low level for the VU meters is 0! The only way to think of it when listening is as if it's a really old mono album. Her style of music lends itself to that interpretation. Still just embarassing for the artist to not know any better. In her case, as a kind of wasted Ing'enue, yeah, I understand. But still it's not the way one hopes SOTA production is going.
I've been pretty disappointed by some of these classic artists releasing stuff sounding like this. I bought the lastest Pual Weller - 22 dreams - and it's heavily compressed and boosted. Metallic I expect this stuff but not some of these artists that previously exercised a little more subtlety. I bought the Amy Winehouse disc - Fade to Black. I have to say it's the most compressed super-boosted album I've ever seen. The low level for the VU meters is 0! The only way to think of it when listening is as if it's a really old mono album. Her style of music lends itself to that interpretation. Still just embarassing for the artist to not know any better. In her case, as a kind of wasted Ing'enue, yeah, I understand. But still it's not the way one hopes SOTA production is going.