Does HTDAAB's production hurt your ears?

[LemonMelon]

U2 albums have become progressivly louder... its definetly not a good thing. At least they haven't hit Oasis levels yet... whats the story morning glory is the loudest mainstream album ever

False.

Hello has more headroom, and is much, much quieter. However, notice how it lacks dynamics; Morning Glory isn't loud...it was just horribly produced.

 

[waynetravis]

Too loud and noisy? Oh... poor rock and roll. Or poor us for being a bunch of crotchety old bastards.

i like Crumbs, the chimes are sweet


the All Because of You into on the other hand

 

[Salome]

I can't say it hurts my ears, no

I think the loud production was partly an attempt to increase the distance between How to dismantle ... and All that you can't leave ...

IMO the differance created by All that you can't .... being 20 times more interesting to me is already enough

 

[randy5554]

Listen to ATYCLB and HTDAAB back to back. The differences in loudness aren't huge; ATYCLB is almost as loud, but it's not as "jarring" to me for some reason.

 

[iloveedge]

I don't think it's that loud...I guess it's because I'm almost deaf in one ear!

 

[kingofsorrow]

Too loud and noisy? Oh... poor rock and roll. Or poor us for being a bunch of crotchety old bastards.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Oddly the beginning of SYCMIOYO bothers me a lot more than the beginning of beginning of ABOY

And while we're comparing waveforms:

Miracle Drug (album version) :

Miracle Drug (Redanka remix) :

 

[kingofsorrow]

ok can somebody explain the difference in the waveforms and what they represent. is the larger the wave representative of loudnest?

 

[tomtom]

Yeah, I wasn't talking about loudness or being too noisy, rather, this "jarring and crunching" feeling referred to. In almost all songs, the bass guitar has this horrible buzzing noise accompanying every note, and the last chorus of Vertigo sounds SO awful. Ow ow ow. Pearl Jam's new album is way noisier, but that doesn't bother me at all. In fact, the crunchiness is quite delicious there

 

[greenlight7-11]

Petty gripes? Nah, I think it's a legitimate beef with the record industry. They are trying to sell more upfront and are sacrifcing the quality for the short term. After all, you know they'll just remaster it and sell it to the audiophiles years later.

Exactly. This is an industry-wide epidemic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

 

[LemonMelon]

ok can somebody explain the difference in the waveforms and what they represent. is the larger the wave representative of loudnest?

Indeed it is. The fewer ups and downs there are, the less dynamics there are in the volume, and the higher the waveform goes, the louder it is.