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wormwood
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The Black Crowes - 2026 - A Pound of Feathers

They may have buried the hatchet, but they are still cudgelling their releases through overzealous mastering compression.


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wormwood
wormwood
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@srv48 See PM

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Shaida
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FILEFACTORY

Does anyone know what's going on with FF? I personally have a lifetime account and I'm worried about it.

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Shaida
Shaida
Aug 15, 2025
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It's true, FF is working, at least for me.

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wormwood
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The Black Keys - 2025 - No Rain, No Flowers DR5



I can't say I was surprised.


The wave forms are so sausage-shaped they should call themselves The Black Puddings.


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Toxxy
Toxxy
Aug 08, 2025
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😖😖

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wormwood
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Wet Leg - 2025 - moisturizer DR4



The compressors were NOT set to stun.


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Lou Okkerman
Lou Okkerman
Jul 13, 2025
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Too much compression
Too much compression

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wormwood
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Lorde - 2025 - Virgin (DR4)



Mastering choice no. 1 Take the already not very dynamic recording (all the drums/percussion are programmed) and throw the full weight of a digital compressor at it. Job done.


  • Chris Gehringer (main mastering engineer)

  • Will Quinnell (assistant mastering engineer)


It took two. One to squash the music into the can and the other to get the lid on. Nice work if you can get it.


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Lou Okkerman
Lou Okkerman
Jul 02, 2025
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That's not mastering, it's being mastered - a pair of cloth ears. Call themselves engineers; they will be redundant shortly when Ozone introduces an AI mastering suite.

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wormwood
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Liam Finn - 2025 - Hyperverse (DR5)



Remember when Crowded House's Woodface was one of the best sounding CDs you owned? Maybe it still is? Well, the voice is familiar (one generation apart) and so is the sound and quirky songwriting—maybe more akin to Together Alone and later albums—but what happened to the audio?


It is truly atrocious.


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thehague
thehague
Jun 24, 2025
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wormwood
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Garbage - 2025 - Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (DR5)



Ooof.

Yet another garbage mastering.


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raggedglory
raggedglory
Jun 22, 2025
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And the folks at Qobuz and elsewhere have the cheek to actually sell this as hi-res


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wormwood
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Haim - 2025 - I quit (DR5)



This is pretty shocking. Just... WHY?


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wormwood
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Miley Cyrus - 2025 - Something Beautiful



When an artist puts a lot of thought and effort into what they hope might be their magnum opus only for it to be made unlistenable by those in charge of the mastering. Even after stripping away the applied 5dB mastering compression, the album is still relatively loud enough by today's standards, so why completely obliterated the dynamics?


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ManWhoCan't
ManWhoCan't
May 29, 2025
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It is a disgrace, but it seems like the industry, even audio engineers, don't see/hear the problem. No musical morals, nor integrity, in the modern music scene. But then I don't listen to Cyrus anyway & that's only partly because of the earbleeding insult to my appreciation of music. Whenever I hear this sort of thing I immediately turn it off & go elsewhere.

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