Maroon 5 - "Maps" quite possible the worst soundin
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Maroon 5 - "Maps" quite possible the worst soundin
Now I listen to a lot of music I would normally not listen to because I stream a lot on apple itunes radio while futzing around with my studio setup. But this song stood out to me as being either horribly mixed or destroyed during mastering. Anybody heard it on a CD feel the same way? I think I even hear spots where the console power supply on the console they used is gasping for current. Gee, I hope it is not my console doing that. hmmmmm.....
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Yep that is horrible irony.
You know I had to look it up and of course ID uses Sterling Sound to master. I had a hunch. Now these guys obviously put out way more work than I do, but everything I have heard out of them I have been consistently...unimpressed by. I feel like I have earned the right to say that because my band's release on Sony a few years back was mastered by them. That is to say, they were paid an embarrassing amount of money (not by me personally, thankfully) and then I re-mastered the mixes, in my very modest not technically very great setup, and with my inexperience in mastering.
You know I had to look it up and of course ID uses Sterling Sound to master. I had a hunch. Now these guys obviously put out way more work than I do, but everything I have heard out of them I have been consistently...unimpressed by. I feel like I have earned the right to say that because my band's release on Sony a few years back was mastered by them. That is to say, they were paid an embarrassing amount of money (not by me personally, thankfully) and then I re-mastered the mixes, in my very modest not technically very great setup, and with my inexperience in mastering.
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I have used Sterling Sound on a few releases. Specifically we used Greg Calbi, who is very very very good. I was happy with their work.kslight wrote:Yep that is horrible irony.
You know I had to look it up and of course ID uses Sterling Sound to master. I had a hunch. Now these guys obviously put out way more work than I do, but everything I have heard out of them I have been consistently...unimpressed by. I feel like I have earned the right to say that because my band's release on Sony a few years back was mastered by them. That is to say, they were paid an embarrassing amount of money (not by me personally, thankfully) and then I re-mastered the mixes, in my very modest not technically very great setup, and with my inexperience in mastering.
But then again, we did not ask them to squish the shit out of the mixes.
So I would suspect someone else in the decision chain forcing this horrific lack of dynamics upon the fans, but not Sterling Sound.
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