Brandon Boyd solo album... worse master than DM?

[arv_foh]

You be the judge

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-wild-trapeze/id379270849?cid=WWW-NAUS-HTNWS-FEATURED-PROMO

 

[drew_drummer]

That sounds fucking AWFUL.

 

[ratsapprentice]

uke:

 

[spioraid]

I could eat a bowl of Alphabet soup and crap a better master than that.

 

[joelplagues]

this is completely terrible.
Does anyone know if its just a terrible itunes rip?

if someone has a copy please let us know.

 

[ahjteam]

atleast the version on Spotify sounds like shit, like each drumhit is distorting. Also:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/508263-brandon-boyd-album-may-worst-master-ever.html

 

[::XeS::]

Terrible

 

[SocialNumb]

Holy fuck nuts! Dam Christians . . .

 

[updog]

oh my...

 

[JayB]

holy shit

 

[Ashgarth]

 

[jarenare]

From the Brandon Boyd Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/brandonboydofficial

Hi everyone. I have read a bunch of your comments about the "distortion" in the music and wanted to let you know that it was highly intended on my part. I wanted the music to be the antithesis of that "faux clarity" we've gotten so accustomed to in popular music. Filling spaces with beautiful distortion and fuzz as opp...osed to other, more obvious things...

My favorite albums growing up (and currently) never sounded perfect. In fact the most lasting ones were flawed in the most poetic ways. All that being said, there shouldn't be any clipping going on in the sound. Just distortion and a pinch of chaos. How loud are you guys listening? Maybe ya'lls speakers can't handle... muh steez! I can't believe I just typed that.

uke:

 

[TheDriller]

^ reads like furious back-peddling to me.

 

[LydonB]

what a horrible response. You can do lo-fi without it sounding like absolute shit.

 

[drew_drummer]

The guy sounds like a fucking tool.

 

[Harry Hughes]

The guy sounds like a fucking tool.

Pretty much.

 

[professorlamp]

lol that excuse reminds me of me when i was like 12

 

[DanLights]

lol what a loser, response probably worse than the album itself

 

[neverpurify]

I've noticed that a lot of the pop records these days sound distorted or lo fi. It's one thing when it's just the way your music is, but striving to create that because it's the new thing in pop is ghey.

 

[The Unavoidable]

With the current trend of this kind of mastering I might just open up my own mastering studio, specializing in this kind of sound.

(It will just be one instance of Camel Crusher on the masterbuss)