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Death Magnetic Retail vs Guitar Hero 3

Metalfan7577 · demo · Watch on YouTube

Audio & video engineeringMusic performance & songs

What it is

A short comparison of the retail release of Metallica's Death Magnetic against the Guitar Hero 3 version of the same song. It switches between the two so you can hear and see the heavy clipping in the retail master.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as the go-to demonstration of the loudness war and what over-compressed mastering does to music.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “A comparison between these two versions was the eye opener for me.”

    Eye-opening comparison of over-compressed versus properly mastered versions

    theshrike79, 2019-02 · Recommendation · in “They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: audio mastering, dynamic range, clipping, metallica, brickwalling

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