Highly distorted tracks as a stylistic claim.
Highly distorted tracks as a stylistic claim. Posted on: 30.01.2010 by Al Henger alright guys, a good friend of mine recently turned me on to the track. Upon first listen, I was like, damn the person encoding this needs to check their freaking levels, cause this is clipping like a mofo. However, this was apparently done by the artists, as they come from a noise background. How do you guys feel about this? I personally... cant make a judgement. I will however say, that this track came out of the speaker a shit ton louder than everything else the other evening
, and I thought my body was being liquified.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8ppcFGPlY | |
| Al Henger 30.01.2010 | alright guys, a good friend of mine recently turned me on to the track. Upon first listen, I was like, damn the person encoding this needs to check their freaking levels, cause this is clipping like a mofo. However, this was apparently done by the artists, as they come from a noise background. How do you guys feel about this? I personally... cant make a judgement. I will however say, that this track came out of the speaker a shit ton louder than everything else the other evening
, and I thought my body was being liquified. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8ppcFGPlY |
| Many Atia 01.02.2010 |
I retorted by saying, "keeping your gain knobs checked to keep the mixer from being perpetually redlined is just a smart thing to do, especially when you are recording the track"
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| Al Henger 31.01.2010 | hahahaha. Like I said guys, I cant really make myself take a stand for this tune. I'm not saying this is "Good". Its wierd, and I kinda wish that I could hear it clean. However, this is how the artists intended it to be heard (was that a smart decision? fuck if I know, but they obviously dont care). As my friend who showed me this said, the Dj'ing field seems to be dominated by audiophiles. We are missing the point of just totally trashing shit. I retorted by saying, "keeping your gain knobs checked to keep the mixer from being perpetually redlined is just a smart thing to do, especially when you are recording the track" EDIT Alright, I will say, I absolutely love what the distortion did to their crash cymbal. that is like, the crunchiest cymbal I've ever heard. The vocals are bearable, when the horn line is not playing, but at the loudest part of the song, it makes my ears bleed. If they had applied distortion to each part individually, to keep it at an equally distorted level, throughout the song, I believe this would have worked a lot better. |
| Ashirumatic DJ 31.01.2010 | +1 on thats just awful. |
| Matt Kane 31.01.2010 | i totally dig this tune! great use of pure dirt and awsome vocals. thanks for posting |
| ma7md hany 31.01.2010 | That is just horrible. I don't give a crap if it supposed to be art, it just sounds awful. |
| Laraine Arceo 31.01.2010 | Props for trying something different, haha the tracks at their myspace sound like someone recorded them with a camcorder at a concert I guess this is taking the loudness debate a step further |
| Al Henger 31.01.2010 | wow... actually looks like i'll be going to see these guys. They are supporting Major Lazer and Rusko at a local even in march. This should be interesting. |
| Al Henger 30.01.2010 | I mean, its heavy as all get out. |
| 30.01.2010 | i love it just way it is! |
| Al Henger 30.01.2010 | yeah, I mean, the track, If I can imagine what it would sound like without the clipping, Is pretty damn good. Its just clipping like a mofo. Like I said, they used to be a noise band. which means, well, they were just noise. |
| juan garcia 30.01.2010 | i liked the track....personally i thought the stylistic experimenting took away from the track, sounded like they went a little overboard with the compressor |
| Al Henger 30.01.2010 | I KNOW! the part with vocals and no high horn line is great, the distorted vocals sound okay. However, with the horn line playing, it makes your ears bleed. |
| Many Atia 30.01.2010 | I was okay with it until the vocals came in--they sound terrible clipped like that and would probably make you wince and cover your ears in a loud environment. Although I leave traktor's auto gain on nowadays and so the loudness advantage is negated and all you would notice would be the distortion... which is nasty |
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