re: What albums were hurt by poor mixing?

Posted by MaxxPain2

Member since Oct 2021

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Posted on 2/1/22 at 10:48 am to TheTideMustRoll

Metallica - St Anger

Black Sabbath - Born Again

Posted by Boring

Member since Feb 2019

3792 posts

Posted on 2/1/22 at 8:36 pm to wareaglepete

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It’s like they just took the bass fader and pulled it all the way down.

Funny, because that’s kinda what happened per Lars:

“No, it wasn't intentional. Justice… was the James and Lars show from beginning to end, but it wasn’t, ‘frick this guy – let’s turn his bass down.’ It was more like, ‘We're mixing, so let's pat ourselves on the back and turn the rhythms and the drums up.’ But we basically kept turning everything else up until the bass disappeared.”

Apparently, they (James and Lars) made records that way from the beginning.

Posted by TFTC

Chicago, Il

Member since May 2010

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Posted on 2/1/22 at 8:43 pm to Boring

The Replacements - Don't Tell a Soul

Chris Lord-Alge really fricked up the mix... Paul hated it..

The Matt Wallace mixes, from Dead Man's Pop box set, are how they should be heard... Wallace produced the record..

Posted by tilco

Spanish Fort, AL

Member since Nov 2013

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Posted on 2/1/22 at 9:05 pm to Jester

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I also have to add Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury. It may be a decent album, but I absolutely cannot listen to it. I swear they found a way to mix nails on a chalkboard into it.

I love that album but I get it. There’s only one way to listen to that album for it to make sense ………loud as frick.

Posted by Barbellthor

Columbia

Member since Aug 2015

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Posted on 2/3/22 at 6:59 am to TheTideMustRoll

Stoner/space/desert metal is wonderful. The Sword is a GOAT.

NB4 ...And Justice for All

Posted by 88Wildcat

Topeka, Ks

Member since Jul 2017

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Posted on 2/23/22 at 8:11 am to Barbellthor

I'm probably going to start a separate thread on this song because of the Rick Beato video I just watched otherwise it never would have crossed my mind but whoever mixed the Christopher Cross guitar solo at the end of Ride Like the Wind should have their tongue plugged into an amplifier. You literally can't hear more than five percent of the entire solo due to the horns and Michael MacDonald's back up vocals drowning everything else out but if you listen only the guitar track it is amazing.

Posted by TheFolker

Member since Aug 2011

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Posted on 2/23/22 at 1:00 pm to TheTideMustRoll

Bruce Springsteen’s Magic

Posted by prplhze2000

Parts Unknown

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Posted on 2/24/22 at 6:34 am to TheTideMustRoll

Half of Dream Theaters albums. Let's the drums overpower everything else

Posted by AlxTgr

Kyre Banorg

Member since Oct 2003

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Posted on 2/24/22 at 9:55 am to TFTC

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The Replacements - Don't Tell a Soul

Another one I never noticed, and I listen to two of those songs pretty regularly.