blog.wired.com - 9/16/2008
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Picture_19 According to mastering engineer Ian Sheperd, Metallica's new Death Magnetic album has a serious sonic problem: it has been compressed (in the audio sense of the word, not the file size sense) just about as much as it's possible to compress audio. Part of the "loudness war," this type ...
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Metallica's Death Magnetic Sounds Better In Guitar Hero
Stereogum —
... version because it has way more dynamic range. Read the story at Wired and imagine the dynamic range of Lars weeping. Posted at 4:39 PM Tags: ...
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Metallica’s Death Magnetic better on Guitar Hero
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[image] MusicRadar guitar editor Chris Vinnecombe used Audacity (a music editing program) to analyze Metallica s Death Magnetic , and the results are (moderately) revealing: the audio is better on the Guitar Hero version of the album than on the CD due to over compression. Basically, if you want your copy to have dynamic range, stay away from anything that you can t use a plastic guitar to play along. I m not going to pretend like I can adequately explain this, so go over to Wired to read the whole story.
Fans Complain After “Death Magnetic” Sounds Better On “Guitar Hero” Than CD
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily —
... With last Friday’s release of Death Magnetic, Metallica fans knew that the band’s new album would be playable that day for Guitar Hero 3. What fans didn’t know was that the video game version of the album would actually sound better than the CD counterpart. That’s what mastering engineer Ian Shepherd discovered when, on a tip from a Metallica forum, he compared the compression rates between the CD and the GH versions. Shepherd discovered that the CD is boosted as much as compressively possible, making it ten decibels ...
Loudness War Rages On
Coolfer —
... Smith did not mention that the "Guitar Hero" version of the album presents an alternate version by which to judge the CD/download version. The existence of a second version helps bolster the case made by critics of Death Magnetic's loudness. (Check out Listening Post's analysis of the two versions of Death Magnetic.) ...
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