It's actually pretty good imo

LOOOOL stfu kiddo

ye wanted it that way, he wanted the wall of sound that a lot of top chart songs had around that time bc that’s the music he was trying to compete with

iirc there's a bunch on Monster, especially the hook. It's been declipped on the "unmastered" version but I prefer the original because the EQ sounds better balanced there, kind sucks that those clicks are still present tho.

I would probably try and get rid of them but I rarely listen to MBDTF and when I do, the poor mastering doesn't get in the way of my enjoyment.

ya we know
still listen to the vinyl rip tbh

I don't remember if it was 808s or MBDTF but Kanye said a remaster was on the way and it never came out.

Understandable, he took it the more extreme direction tbh

Why does the guy getting interviewed sound butt hurt as s***.

cant tell if hes being sarcastic the whole time or not

What's the controversy here? That it was done in a bedroom and not by "pros"? I've not listened to the album through headphones so Idk about the mastering but from what I've heard so far I think the production and mixing is very nice, creative and worthy of acclaim.

I actually have this feeling by listening gorgeous

All you need to do to prove OP right is listen to that God awful crackling with each piano note on the opening to Runaway. For everyone claiming it’s stylistic to compress the s*** out of your album, listen to that part which is obviously supposed to be a dramatic break from all the maximalism of the rest of the album and ask yourself: why the f*** is it still so loud it sounds like there’s something wrong with my headphones?

do you know what compression is lol

Yes and that's why there's God awful crackling on the Runaway intro. The compression on the track made the single piano note loud as f*** and there's clipping on the entire track, but it's so damn obvious in the intro because it's just a single instrument.

I can post pictures of the waveform if it would please you

So the compression is applied in the whole song uniformly? That sounds like lazy mixing and I’m not sure that’s the case entirely. You could be right but it’s possible that the intro just was EQ’d harshly.

Either way the team that mixed it said it was intentionally done that way.

Wasn't it mastered by Vlado though? The man who's hated by fans from several genres for mastering way too loud

Yea, but tbh some of the albums that Vlado mastered sounded fantastic like C3 and Graduation

Jesus Christ, this bullshit again

Wtf am I looking at lol

you can look up any album and it'll tell you how "well" engineered it is in terms of dynamic range. red bad green good

for reference one of the best engineered albums ever

dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/83301

and one of the worst ones

dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/83434

and this is mbdtf CD

dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/162078

I wouldn't say they are fantasticly mastered, they could do with more dynamics and air or headroom, they suit the music tho I guess. MBDTF isn't the first high profile album he s*** on, Oasis' What's the story morning glory too

Letting DR determine wether something is engineered right is like diagnosing a patiant only by their temperature. DR values can be misleading, I'm sure some think the MBDTF vinyl is mastered better than the CD because its DR is higher but it's cut from the same file the CD was pressed with. In that case, vinyl shows better DR because it's not only the music file that's being tested, it's also the needle running over grooves.

There's been times where I've chosen a CD with a lower DR over a CD with a higher DR. If I had've just went by DR I'd have gone with a CD with less favorable EQ or less optimal tape source.

He should post a sample of his work so we know what good mastering is

Late Registration has the best mixing and mastering

It still sounds really fresh