The TesseracT Concealing Fate EP

[JakeAC5253]

Does anyone else think that this EP was really poorly done? I have TesseracT's demo recordings, and they have a great vibe, technical but emotionally encompassing too, really affective. Then they go and get signed and have a major release and all the vibe and emotion is gone, and instead of seeming technical, the weird things just seem disjointed and random. I also think the mix makes no sense too, it's worse than the demo IMO, very boxy and not ambient at all. It seems that this is happening a lot with new underground bands these days once they get signed... just pretty disappointing.

 

[RedDog]

Acle and Amos run 4d, where the album was mixed and mastered. They did all of their own recording and all that business. Everything you heard from the album was a direct result and decision of their own.

 

[JeffTD]

They're just suffering from self-production syndrome. It's rare that a band can self-produce and really do it well.

 

[JakeAC5253]

Interesting. Who produced their demo content then? Because that stuff is well done.

 

[Trevoire520]

I always felt the mix on the album was a bit tame tbh, I prefer the sound of the live DVD.

 

[egan.]

They're just suffering from self-production syndrome. It's rare that a band can self-produce and really do it well.

I'll add to this that you get this a lot in the djent genre. You have these promising demos and then you have the same amateur engineer record the same songs after they're a couple of years old and the results are consistently disappointing. I guess the expectation is that once it's on a label you do it "for real" but now you're tired of the songs and the chance your're leagues better as an engineer are pretty low.

 

[P-E]

The old demos had such an amazing bass sound. So gooooood.