since the first batch of 2007 genesis remixes have been released, and while the new mixes are very good, it hurts your ears. many of us fans are concerned about the sound of the CDs- it seems to have completely squished the dynamics and hurts your ears to listen to, and then i looked at the wave-forms and figured out why:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...g?t=1183313296
the music has been boosted to the maximum volume on the CDs, and then compressed so that they fit to the limit. if you look at the wave-forms close up, those waves go all the way from the bottom to the top in loudness- and the variation and subtleness in the genesis songs that we've grown to love are ruined, not because of the new producer, but because of the mastering engineer.
and genesis are not alone.
apparantly, it's an increasing trend in the past ten years to make albums louder and louder, and more compressed- i was not aware because most of the music that i buy nowadays is older or very obscure. here's an article someone posted on the genesis forums that explains it very well:
http://www.austin360.com/music/conte...9/28cover.html
my point in all of this, is that i hope when underworld masters their new album, they don't follow into this new trend of loud and over-compressed music. but since underworld has never followed the main-stream i'm sure they'll consider this- i thought genesis would be more aware to things like this, but apparently, when they were doing the mixes with the producer, they heard the 'untreated' versions only, and don't know anything or haven't acknowledged anything about the mastering on these new editions. i just hope underworld won't make the same mistake.