music_man
Headphoneus Supremus
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i once in a while listen to rage against the machines first cd. what always impressed me was how clean and pristine the signal was. well, finally i ran it through wave lab. it does not clip one single time in the entire cd! btw, the vinyl is freaking sweet!
all i am saying is this is not the norm for this genre of music! there are metal and rap albums that i will not listen to on my good systems for fear of damage. you can crank this to the limit of your amps without any caution.
someone who was involved with this project was obviously into hi-fidelity recording. for all the guitar and bass distortion, there is not one instance of clipping. i really wish all metal and rap cd's paid so much attention to what they were recording. you just don't find this kind of attention to the recording in most of this music.
it does not end at the lack of clipping either. this cd employees the most cutting edge recording techniques that i can see in the waveforms. the sound quality is awesome. people that say they cannot stand metal or rap may likely be due to all the lousy boomy distorted recordings! this is totally listenable and superb through headphones! i do not know if it was by accident that they got such engineering on their project or if it was planned. knowing what i know about zach de la rocha it was probably planned. he accepts nothing but the best. not to mention tom morello graduated with a ba from harvard. i guess all this was well thought out given these peoples backgrounds.
i love this music. even if you do not like angry laden metal and rap lyrics put to hard music you might want to give this a listen. not to mention he does have a message to convey. if you agree with him or not. it is good stuff i say!
music_man
all i am saying is this is not the norm for this genre of music! there are metal and rap albums that i will not listen to on my good systems for fear of damage. you can crank this to the limit of your amps without any caution.
someone who was involved with this project was obviously into hi-fidelity recording. for all the guitar and bass distortion, there is not one instance of clipping. i really wish all metal and rap cd's paid so much attention to what they were recording. you just don't find this kind of attention to the recording in most of this music.
it does not end at the lack of clipping either. this cd employees the most cutting edge recording techniques that i can see in the waveforms. the sound quality is awesome. people that say they cannot stand metal or rap may likely be due to all the lousy boomy distorted recordings! this is totally listenable and superb through headphones! i do not know if it was by accident that they got such engineering on their project or if it was planned. knowing what i know about zach de la rocha it was probably planned. he accepts nothing but the best. not to mention tom morello graduated with a ba from harvard. i guess all this was well thought out given these peoples backgrounds.
i love this music. even if you do not like angry laden metal and rap lyrics put to hard music you might want to give this a listen. not to mention he does have a message to convey. if you agree with him or not. it is good stuff i say!
music_man
