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Adele cd...bad mix/recording

Anyone heard this new release from Adele..The track Chasing pavements sounds great through my car radio,bought the cd and played it through a better than good system and it sucks.Took to my main system and tried it,even worse.The mix is all wrong,guitars are recorded with distortion and IMO the backing band is unnatural sounding like computer generated tracks.Drums are totally recorded wrong..Columbia records sure did get this one wrong from a promissing young artist
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bjbcab
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Vinyl or CD it doesn't matter on Adele recordings. Her voice is processed on some songs yielding a very bright, harsh, thin sound. Same thing for some of the instruments. On other tracks little to no processing. It is so sad because her voice is money and they are just F'ing it up.

So Vinylmeister and Cyclonicman you are both wrong.
bjbcab
131 posts
 
The really sad thing is that this "hot" sound may be at Adele's request or approval thinking that it enhances the track. Perhaps she just doesn't know any better.
bjbcab
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Joekras,

No its not. Particularly on Adele recordings. Some of the songs sound fine. Some of the songs sound fine and then all of a sudden get this shrilly compressed sound. Her voice is the instrument. Why screw it up? Makes no sense except they are going for a sound that I just don't get.
bjbcab
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Dalecrommie, It could be part and parcel of "Loudness War" but this, to me, is almost more for effect and not just for louder play on the radio.
bjbcab
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04-22-12: Ths364
Somebody at the record company had to sign off on this. I'm guessing that they had no idea this would take off the way it has. I'm certain it was recorded without the budget or attention a Norah Jones record would get, so it sounds that way. Her next record WILL get that kind of budget and attention. Hopefully she'll have material that will stand the scrutiny.

I doubt it. She won two grammy's with her first album 19.
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