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cursors · Post by **cursors** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:49 pm

I don't know if it is the worst mastering but..... Orbital - Snivilisation - Quality Seconds.... probably the worst, it hurts

mgcollins21 · Post by **mgcollins21** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:54 pm

My vote goes for the new Ministry Album "House of the Mole" the songs are great but it seems too compressed. I was listening to the mp3's for a while and was dissapointed when I bought the album and it sounded EXACTLY the same!! Even the previous album "Animositsma"(sp?) sounded so much better. I love the snare sound.

ktelj · Post by **ktelj** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:14 pm

Peel wrote: The second (I think) printing of Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies has a *skip* on one track. I don't know if they ever fixed that; they might still be printing them that way.

OMG I love that version of that song, I was pretty unhappy when I got it later on a compilation and it didn't do that anymore, it was more a restart of the entire track.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:16 pm

I had no idea Joe Cocker ever covered Phil Collins until this thread appeared

poorly mastered fine albums:
They Might Be Giants: Lincoln. great lo-fi sound, perhaps the point, but one wonders how it might have come out produced with, say Bockfish or Torben's Classics availiable at the time..

I've wondered the same about a lot of Al Green's stuff, too: but that may just be a sign of the times.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:23 pm

Dunbar wrote:
Hink wrote:I don't know if it's mentioned yet, but the original zepplin 2 on vinyl was the worst mastered great album imo...cool songs, great music....but I think it souned horrid...
Are you mad.... one of the best recordings ever.

Anyway, can't believe nobody's nominated:

Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power.

What a fuking mess

no I'm not, but I could ask the same of you...you think it's one of the best? Please, floyd, queen. tull, and yes all produced albums that were far better produced and mastered imo..

XDVarenkor · Post by **XDVarenkor** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:32 pm

emdot_ambient wrote:You guys will probably kill me but I think the worst mastered great album was . . .

Mike Oldfield's original Tubular Bells.

I used to think it was amazing, and most of the music still is . . . but the recording is utter crap!

Exactly what I was going to say - you can hear mains hum in the background through the entire recording! But musically and instrumentally it's still a masterwork, and that's a point that gets missed in so many discussions about sample rates and bit depths. Audiophiles used to get worked up over signal-to-noise ratios; Now they're less relevant it's all about 'sound quality' and 'analogue warmth' but still rarely about the music...

KHC · Post by **KHC** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:00 am

My vote goes to Shaman by Santana. The compression makes the album very hard to listen to. It always seems to be too loud.

cron · Post by **cron** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:11 am

ericj23 wrote:the aphex twins ambient works volume one was recorded on a home tape recorder

On a tape which was subsequently mangled by a cat.

It does sound pretty nasty mind. In places (I remember the first track being terrible for it, haven't listened in a while though) you get all those periodic high end dropouts you hear on, well, seriously mangled tape.

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:31 am

Emotional Technology.

crimsontider · Post by **crimsontider** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:55 am

jeffn1 wrote:I am surprised no one mentioned Rush's Vapor Trails. Maybe your not to hot on the album, regardless of the production.

jeffn1

Vapor Trails is a nasty production. It stays in the red
most of the time. I heard that someone ruined it late in the process with no back-up.

Rush lost it in the early 90's imo.

SWTrex · Post by **SWTrex** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:09 am

My vinly copy of Yes' "Fragile" was so bad, I wonder if I got a bad pressing or something. A couple of years ago I recorded it to wav, ran it through all kinds of noise reduction, and burned it to CD - ten times better than the original.

peter01 · Post by **peter01** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:31 am

Beck Bogert Appice (lp or cd). Divine playing, mastered in hell.

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:01 am

adamatic wrote:
MickGael wrote:***Hey, I'm still waiting for the Beatles stuff remastered at 24-bits and - hello! - the early stuff in stereo!
the early stuff should stay the way it was recorded and meant to be listened, glorious mono.

Ah, but glorious stereo mixes were done at the time, as well. I've heard them - have 'em on vinyl.

FaX · Post by **FaX** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:44 am

ericj23 wrote:yeah but the remix ruled

the aphex twins ambient works volume one was recorded on a home tape recorder

and it's awash with cloudy hiss that just totally fits the music - actually since he's started going pro he sounds worse

I'd tend to agree .
Selected Ambient works Volume 1 has ALOT of charm for all it's uber lo-fi qualities.
Anything post "ON" Aphex Twin pretty much sucks dogs balls in my opinion though .

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Sat May 14, 2005 4:02 am

Hink wrote: Please, floyd, queen. tull, and yes all produced albums that were far better produced and mastered imo..

Yes: Relayer

One of the most beautifully produced albums ever.

That big ol' plate reverb.

Worst-Mastered Great Albums