Regina Spektor: What we saw from the cheap seats

[noddin0ff]

Got my CD the other day and was really enjoying it in the background. It's a really nice album.




But then I sat down and gave it a solid listen on my headphones and OUCH. I'm not the best expert on these things, but the mastering sounds terrible. This should be a liquidy and dynamic album but instead parts sound like grinding fine glass in the background.

I pulled out Audacity and took a look. Yep. they blew it out. Pretty much ruined much of the album. Not everything, the quieter parts fare OK. But enough to drop the enjoyment quotient.

Sad.