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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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vinylmeister
68 posts
 
Hi Cyclonicman,
Yeah you are wrong I switched from vinyl to mainly CD/SACD and I was listening to the digital version of Adele 19 with fantastic chicken-skin vocals and great music
gotog
75 posts
 
I purchased a version of the Adele 19 cd that came with a bonus cd containing 5 live tracks. The bonus cd is actually recorded quite well and worth the extra couple bucks. I too find the regular cd a little harsh and hardly ever play it, since I find the bonus cd much more enjoyable.
bjbcab
131 posts
 
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.
mike60
275 posts
 
If your system is exposing the poor recording quality of this otherwise great CD then you have a quality set up. It is just plain wrong in so many areas that i can only enjoy it at low volume and even then it is apparent. It is immediately obvious in the first few seconds, and i think it is inexcusable for a decent artist. I have often felt this way. Brandi Carlile comes to mind...many others. I hope for an acoustic version someday recorded better.
jdsher
6 posts
 
I have Adele 21 on vinyl and it is a very poor recording as well. Such a shame to waste her voice like that.
Jon
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