The WAV files ripped using iTunes clip. However, my friend ripped WAV files using Audiograbber, and they peaked at 0, but were still totally over compressed and limited.Quoting Yxklyx (view post)
Still shouldn't be anywhere close to 0db except for loudest and loudest parts.
Is clipping bad? I use it all the time to limit peaks in video production audio but that is speaking voices that pop higher that about 0db, not music.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
That sounds more like limiting/compressing to me - you're limiting your ceiling, and compressing the audio to squash transients. I'm sure for human voice - especially speaking, and especially for video production - you will want to do this. With digital mixing/mastering, as soon as the audio hits 0db, there will be digital clipping, and at this point frequencies are actually cut off, and, depending on how extreme it is, you might here distortion and pops/cracks. With analog, you can push the transients to the zero and beyond.
Been continuing to let Arctic Sleep's Arbors get spins. The explosion of noise and delayed feedback in "Valley of Poison" might be the best "metal" moment I hear all year. That melody is just crushing. Further, this album is one of the few releases that continues to get stronger the deeper you get into it. The last few tracks all are given space and time to shine.
All that to say, I find myself drawn more and more to Hum's expert blend of space and crunch and melody. So incredibly underrated. Still working to understand the transitions in You'd Prefer an Astronaut (recently a full album purchase, rather than just the "Stars" single, as before) at the same elemental level that I vibe with Downward is Heavenward, but the band is fast-tracking their way onto my favorites list these last few months.
As with some others this year, I ended up sampling the Flower Travelin' Band's Satori. That's just madcap fun and 70s goodness. Rather amazed to hear some very similar Slayer riffage there, too.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Looking for opinions on the following acts:
Mudhoney
Mother Love Bone
Screaming Trees
Big Black
Melvins
Hit me with your musical knowledge, MC.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
I didn't appreciate the Melvins until I saw them live, and they blew me away. One of the tightest bands I've ever seen.
Never really got into Mudhoney, but I respect the hell out of those guys. Still together, all original members (I think the only grunge group to have all surviving original members - no deaths!), and they're still putting out new music and playing.
Never liked MLB or Pearl Jam, and haven't listened to enough Big Black to have an opinion.
So much good stuff coming out tuesday:
Feathers (debut)
new Major Lazer
new Yeah Yeah Yeahs
new Ghostface
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remember seeing these girls open up for another band in a tiny venue in manhattan. they were pretty good, although they obviously seemed like they were going for indie dance stardom
Manoman, Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is a-mah-zing. The title track is just killer.
Dug the first listen through of the Harold Budd/Guthrie/Bernocchi Winter Garden as well. So tranquil.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Had you somehow not heard it before? Electric Miles in general is more or less the best thing. "Right Off" from Jack Johnson blows me away every. single. time.
It definitely has its moments, title track included, though On the Corner is his late period masterpiece for me. Jack Johnson is incredible as well.
Duly noted. My jazz collection is rather limited. A Bird best-of, Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Coltrane's Very Best of..., and Vijay Iyer's Reimagining. Largely have the heavyweights, but lack much depth and range of them. Trying to slowly (and cheaply) rectify that.
I'd just grabbed Kind of Blue last week, so I'm gonna let these two battle back and forth. That said, On the Corner reads like it should be magnificent.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Yeah, I binge on jazz a couple times a year. I spent a June a couple years back catching up on the Miles I hadn't heard. I prefer Mingus (get The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady post haste if you haven't already...best jazz album, period) but Miles' career progression is one of the most fascinating in all of music. Kind of Blue deserves every bit of its rep, so you're in for a treat there.
When it comes to Miles, I gotta say my favorite would be Panthalassa - it's so smooth, trippy and relaxing, ambient even. Davis, I bet you in particular would love it.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
I've never heard that, B. I'll check it out.
****
Marconi Union, live. Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=riIOzofFvT0
And a great interview.
http://igloomag.com/profiles/sonic-e...-marconi-union
As much as I love Miles' electric period, I think the Second Great Quintet (with Shorter, Hancock, Carter and Williams) might be the best jazz band ever assembled. When it comes to 20th century artists, Miles really is right up there with Picasso. It's kind of mind blowing how well he lives up to the overwhelming hype that surrounds him.
I'm partial to Mile's earlier fusion stuff rather than the later, mind-blowing virtuoso offerings. In A Silent Way is probably my favourite, especially because it showcases John McLaughlin's more atmospheric side.
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
Definitely a brilliant album. My favorite after Spain.
Tony Williams... That fuckin' guy. His drumming on Miles Smiles in particular just kills me every time. Dude is so beastly and creative.
I saw the Tony Williams Lifetime Tribute band play a couple of years ago. It was just Cindy Blackman, Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, and John Medeski playing the best music I had ever heard in my life.
I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I admit MLB weren't that great (other than "Chloe Dancer" which is on the Singles soundtrack which is awesome).
Screaming Trees are the best of the bands you listed and arguably the most underrated of the og Seattle grunge bands.
I'm in the minority but I never liked The Melvins much.
Mudhoney had the most punk cred of the Seattle grunge bands, but I always thought they were a bit overrated (time seems to agree with me since they don't have that many fans anymore...at least compared to peers like The Pixies or Sonic Youth). Superfuzz Bigmuff is pretty solid, even though you may as well buy an old Stooges album (which if you haven't...get on that shit).
I was never a huge Big Black fan either. They are one of those bands where I feel like I'm being scolded for something when I listen to them (see also: Henry Rollins at times) but like The Melvins that is probably a minority opinion.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
something i've always wondered, mainly because grunge music has never appealed to me: did you have to grow up with it or have an older sibling/person you looked up to get you into it to appreciate it?
The Wipers > every grunge band combined.
I'm reading up on them. They sound interesting. Do you recommend Youth of America or Is This Real? to get into first?
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
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