Heard it for the first time on my headphones today. First I thought I had clipping issues, but I don’t think so… what’s up with the distortion? If it’s on purpose, it sounds horrible to me.
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Most of Imagine Dragons music is intentionally compressed with “artistic intent”. Much the same way as some jazz singers will use microphones from the 1930s to get a specific tone.
Yeah it sounds horrible. It was the sound they were going for.
I’m sorry but why are you posting about this garbage band on /r/audiophile lol
They haven’t made one song that deserve to be talked about here.
Rock for people who don’t even like rock. Dubstep for people who don’t know what dubstep is.
Trash band all around
They must be well liked within certain audiophile circles. I remember seeing a story post on SVS’s instagram account from an audio show. The rep has their demo equipment set up and is all psyched up saying something like, “yeah, we got everything set up, about to jam out to some imagine dragons!”
Thats a lil sad when you consider any good masters available to test a sound system, why go with generic bullcrap!
One of my favorite albums of the 2000’s is Back to Black. When I finally got good equipment, I bought it on vinyl. I cannot tell you my disappointment when I discovered how terrible the mastering was. They tried to do a stylized recreation of the sound of 60’s recordings without understanding what made them sound the way they did, and the whole thing was distorted and interfered with the music rather than enhancing it. It was like a bad color correction on a movie. When it’s great, it’s seamless and disappears. When it’s terrible, it’s all you think about.
Hot take here, but I keep turning back to Sade or Norah’s debut album every time I need to judge the ‘musicality’ of any new equipment. I know there are more revealing tracks out there for this purpose, but these are my cohesive, immersive go-tos for judging the ‘stuff’.
Come Away With Me is my benchmark album. Such a lovely sound, everything sounds just right. Either that or some, cliche I know, Diana Krall.
Which sucks, because Frank is pretty hifi
That’s the artiste intent… They think everyone will be listening on momo phone speakers so won’t notice but people are suffering with badly mixed and mastered music… All in the name of making shit loud
I don’t know this specific example, but I had a couple songs in my library where there’s clipping on vocal and symbols. For years I thought it was my equipment, then I finally upgraded to proper gear and it’s still there. It’s on the damn recording.
Honestly I can’t understand how engineers allow stuff to get to release with clipping on the high end.
This entire comment thread is case after case of “tell me you know little about music production without telling me you know little about music production” 😂
this is fucking bait innit
Welcome to most pop music on a decent setup. I’m still upset Metallica was recorded so poorly
I downloaded a version during the wap mp3 days and that was version I heard and the drumming was good, then I found out that it was a drum cover version haha, the original drums sound so muted, a real drum fits it so well