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According to one audio engineer, the best listening experience for Metallica’s new Death Magnetic album may be the one you create for yourself … in Guitar Hero III. Engineer Ian Shepherd compared the two on his blog, and said that the version from the game has a lot less clipping and more dynamic range.
What’s the culprit? Shepherd blames the “Loudness Wars,” which have engineers sacrificing audio quality in favor of a louder-sounding final product. We blame our mad Guitar Hero skills have somehow, through years of digital instrument manipulation, made us better than Metallica. It’s a proud day.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I must say that I (along with many others as far as I can read on the web) is extremely disappointed about the sound on the album! What ever happened to that suond from Master of Puppets and The Black Album??? That was some of the best-sounding albums ever! I have to give it to the people from Guitar Hero - GOOD JOB! But that still doesnt change the fact that the new album is not worthy as Metallica material! The songs as such is a definite 5 out of 5 stars, but the mastering is somewhere between 1 and 2:-(
Maybe Metallica can be convinced to release a better-sounding lossless audio version for download for the people who has already purchased the album???
Still, Metallica rocks!
Steffen, Denmark
September 24th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I agree that the GH version is far superior. When my copy of DM arrived I immediatley started noticing the clipping. So annoying! It soils an amazing record in a less than dazzling mastering job. Like others I hope that Metallica gets the message and endorses a remastered version of the album. After all, its kind of strange that so many of us are now playing the GH version on our stereos, rather than the actual audio CD.
September 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Just download a GH torrent, if you’re so upset. Yeah it’d be great if they remastered it. It’d be great if they went back to …And Justice and cranked up the bass. Have they? No. So who knows if they will. The CD still kicks ass. and Steffen, you say you’re complaining about the material…but the material are the written songs, not the mastering.
Fuck their Engineers, I always thought that Mixer dude on the videos was a tool.
I bought the album to have, and to collect, and to support one of my fav bands. I got the GH version to listen to. It’s all good.