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| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation Quite a range of comments in this discussion. I would just note that many of those objecting to the sound of modern pop music sound remarkably like their parents did in the 1950s and 60s--many of the complaints are in fact virtually identical ( t... | |
| ... thoughts on Taylor Swift's REPUTATION CD... Unless she was playing in your living room, I'm pretty sure you've actually never heard Taylor Swift's voice without some degree of compression. It's on all of her albums and live performances. For example, if you go on YouTube, you'll find a wo... | |
| ... thoughts on Taylor Swift's REPUTATION CD... Sure. They're PMC twotwo.6's. The brand was recommended to me by Glenn Meadows, a well-known mastering engineer in Nashville who mastered my daughter, Merritt Gibson's first album on some enormous PMCs in his studio. (Played me some Steely Dan, ... | |
| ... thoughts on Taylor Swift's REPUTATION CD... Reputation is state of the art modern pop production. Complaining about DR and compression in modern pop is like complaining that rock and roll has too much drumming--it comes with the territory and to varying degrees always has. We love it, par... | |
| Paul is Done Cheer up, fellas, I think he just said he was going to stop touring, not stop wring songs and making records. And it's easy to imagine him doing the residency performance thing in the future. | |
| Tidal does not post the cost to buy a song or an album on their site Good Lord, man, get with the program. It isn't that hard. Trolling, on the other hand, is easy. On a broader level: You never really owned the music. The writer and publisher own the composition. The label owns the master. You never have mo... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Among the old guys, Charlie Watts deserves more attention. The Stones secret ingredient was Charlie's rock-solid snare. And one of the coolest dudes ever.Among current drummers, one of the most interesting and imaginative is Bryan Devendorf with... | |
| Best female vocal recording on CD? How about these two amazing voices:Neko CaseKaren Carpenter | |
| Class D Technology Good for you, mate! I should have mentioned that those NAD's are driving Paradigm S-8's. Great sound, and they really tame the beryllium tweeters. Someone had an earlier post re "large" studio speakers. The monitors I was referring to are smal... | |
| Class D Technology Recently acquired the NAD 12, which uses the NCore technology, along with M22. Best sound I've ever heard. Clean, focused, powerful, clear as a bell. As an aside, I use some powered PMC monitors for recording and read somewhere that they use si... |