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| At last, those once dynamic mixes are now iPod friendly! | |
|  | It was about time that Genesis got with the modern times, and realised that not everyone has audiophile equipment. Most people listen on MP3 players either through small earphones, or in a car, and have to hear the music above the car engine or the noise of traffic.
So at last we have the more compressed, narrower mixes that allow us to hear even the quietest parts relatively loud and upfront. This is the way music is going. Everyone is doing it, so why shouldn't Genesis? Now you can play a Genesis track followed by, say, an Oasis song, and they both sound very similar in terms of the sound - equally loud and compressed - a bit like a radio broadcast. It's so cool.
Another good thing: all the different albums sound much more uniform, less individual or 'of their time' (how dated and uncool they were before). You can set your iPod nano to random play mode, and play something from 'And Then There Were Three' followed by something from 'Abacab', followed by something from 'We Can't Dance', and they could all be from the same album. Surely this has to be a good thing?
This collection of mixes is a 'great leveller'. Whether listening on expensive sound equipment or a cheap midi system, or indeed an iPod, it will sound the same, very nicely flattened out, and not over-punchy or too full of life like before. They're also good if you want 'background music' turned down quiet. The once-quiet bits never get lost now, and the louder bits no longer have too much energy.
I think these new compressed, refreshingly less dynamic stereo mixes are just wonderful. Thank you Nick Davis and Tony Cousins. Thank you very very very very very much. Sincerely.
| | | Genesis have done it again. This box set has ton's of unseen Genesis video from the last part of the Phil Collin's period and the one CD they did with a new singer. The sound on the DVD's is amazing. Very little has been done to these records in way of sound (as they say in the interveiw "very little had to be changed"). I am not going to bother telling you why this box set was not "EQ wrong" or that it's "too loud". If you like the way the cd's sounded when they came out then you will love them now. If you don't like the way modern records are made then stick to your analog, egg cartons stuck to the wall 50's music.
| | Another box of ear fatigue... | |
| | I don't understand how these remixes are getting such good reviews. Nick Davis used to do such amazing recordings. What happened? When did he become such a fan of over EQing everything? Can't everyone hear how overly EQ'd these mixes are? They simply aren't enjoyable to listen to. They're harsh and thin with a boomy low end and hollowed out midrange and clearly have inferior musical balances than the originals. I guess it's a case where people buy into believing remastered always means better even without volume matched comparisons. Remember, louder doesn't mean better.
I can take about ten minutes of these discs before my ears just start ringing and I have to shut it off. They've lost a lot of the punch and power the original mixes had. The sound of the SSL console EQ Nick used has a distinct tone. They will ring when overused. You can hear it all over this set. It should be annoying even to those whose ears haven't been trained. There's a lot of poorly chosen EQ that adds a nasal quality to the instruments. The cymbals are harsh and Phil's vocals are nasally and sound like a they're coming through a megaphone. Things sound small and jammed together.
I won't even go into detail about how much better Hugh Padgham's mixes are. Hugh is obviously a better engineer as he made Genesis sound powerful and important. Nick Davis has made them sound like a small transistor radio, albeit a very loud transistor radio.
And what's with all the compression? These heavy mixes are ridiculously inappropriate for this beautiful, emotionally dynamic music. These songs used to have dynamics, loud and soft orchestrations that built the music. Now everything is LOUD! The LOUD! parts are LOUD! and the soft parts are LOUD! That's not detail you're hearing, it's just compression.
It makes me sick to my stomach that these loud, overly EQd, overly compressed remixes are going to replace the dynamic, fuller and more artful original mixes.
Welcome to the MP3 generation where sound quality just doesn't matter as long as it's loud. I guess I should get a cheap stereo that makes everything sound bad. That way these Genesis remixes won't upset me so much.
Genesis... the George Lucas of the music world. ICK!
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