radi6404 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 So I listened to many albums from today and I don´t love the mastering a lot. For example the new shpongle, the tracks are really respectable and the album is on per with all other albums. Some tracks have close connection to Shpongle I, but the mastering is not that great in my opinion. The songs are indeed high quality and the sound is very transparent, but the mastering somehow makes me uneasy when listening to the album. It tries to sound too great and clean and makes the sound a bit heavy for me. Because of the too clean sound somehow the music looses a bit of the focus because my ears try to catch all the details in that song instead of aktually listening to the beautiful music. The las album was different, the mastering was perfect in my opinion and not too heavy. Innefable mysteries sounded really incredible. The latest Ott album Mir sounds a bit heavy for my taste, aswell, but by far not as heavy as Shpongle VI. I love Mir by Ott and I like the new Shpongle but thiis album makes listening a bit uneasy because of the mastering. The mastering of Twisted Records is generally very high quality but the latest Shpongle sounds a bit exaggerated. What do you think about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 So I listened to many albums from today and I don´t love the mastering a lot. For example the new shpongle, the tracks are really respectable and the album is on per with all other albums. Some tracks have close connection to Shpongle I, but the mastering is not that great in my opinion. The songs are indeed high quality and the sound is very transparent, but the mastering somehow makes me uneasy when listening to the album. It tries to sound too great and clean and makes the sound a bit heavy for me. Because of the too clean sound somehow the music looses a bit of the focus because my ears try to catch all the details in that song instead of aktually listening to the beautiful music. The las album was different, the mastering was perfect in my opinion and not too heavy. Innefable mysteries sounded really incredible. The latest Ott album Mir sounds a bit heavy for my taste, aswell, but by far not as heavy as Shpongle VI. I love Mir by Ott and I like the new Shpongle but thiis album makes listening a bit uneasy because of the mastering. The mastering of Twisted Records is generally very high quality but the latest Shpongle sounds a bit exaggerated. What do you think about it? and the mastering on any suntrip, dat, anjuna etc? i bet you can not fault anything from tim schuldt twisted have been questionable over the years. that is small fry compared to most of the quality coming out these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radi6404 Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 What do you mean Technosoomy? I am not planning to attack newschool artists or anything with this thread, lately I enjoy that genre mroe than before. It is mainly about this specific album and some others, the mastering of the latest shpongle is a bit too heavy for me, earlier albums where better in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 well you gave shpongle and ott as an example, what others are you talking about, i mentioned the above especially schuldty as he masters all the masters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radi6404 Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Well for sure some of the newschool, aswell. Some newschool albums have heavy mastering aswell, but mostly it is fine, but the new Shpongle is not fine in my opinion. It must be way different to sound very good, the tracks should get a mstering like earlier because they are really woth it, incredible work. The newscholl Filteria tracks that got linked in threads lately did not touch me when it comes to mastering but they were fine, again sounded a bit analytical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpongled247 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I think part of what you might be referring to with the new Shpongle Radi is actually the mixing, not the mastering. The fact that Simon now uses a lot more digital gear perhaps, well, definitely has an effect on the overall sound. I don't notice Shpongle to be particularly squished or heavy to my ears though, they are one of few groups who always allow stuff to breathe in my ears at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radi6404 Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Well, anyone percepts thigns differently. For me it sounds a bit heavy and I thin it is the mastering since they get different stuff for mastering aswell, different limiters, different compressors and so on, the sound is a bit different as on the previous album, but ithe album itself is very high quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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