Did some full mix analyzing using SPAN and noticed an interesting thing. one of the first songs I checked was Chevelle’s “Face to the Floor”. On the hi end there was a hard cutoff at 10k. The horizontal line went straight down lol.
So i checked a few others. here was VH Poundcake. hard cutoff at 11.7k
Did you mean lossy?
I always thought that Van Halen album had crap production. The drums sound good, but the bass is boomy and the midrange is missing. If it’s MP3 yeah, it limits the highest highs to compress the sound.
The highs are naturally gonna start to trail off the further up you get because there is less musical information up there (just hi-hats and sibilant vocal consonants). The roll off is totally natural, but the dead cutoff before the half way point at 22,050Hz if you’re using CD audio is not unless it’s a lossy signal. Love you.
Edit: I’ve noticed Alex Van Halen’s kit cuts off earlier than most drums though, because of the way he plays the cymbals. He has a wishy washy sound, where other more brittle and metallic sounding hi-hats tend to extend further up in the frequency range.
I love the song “Drop Dead Legs” from 1984, but fuck’s sake the cymbals are RIDICULOUS in that song. Especially during the “You know that you want it” part. Listen to that song again.
wowzers, they really hammered on that LPF. That’s pretty surprising to see in CD. I gave away all my CDs, but now I’m wishing I could go check some of them to see if the old tape->CD albums were all like this. Do you have Ride the Lightning? That one sounds like it’s pretty low passed.
I have it. Deleted the other two because the graph in this one is better. Used Audacity to analyze, it’s an original Australian pressing, this one. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/112940
This is a sample from “Trapped Under Ice”. @CPF has the American CD, I don’t think it’s much different.
No, I have the Vertigo pressings of the first two, the Kill 'Em All does have the two bonus tracks, but they’re not listed. I have the American retail Elektra pressings of Master of Puppets and the Black album, and the $9.98 CD EP, and I have the BMG …Justice for All on CD. It’s confusing, I know. I also bought the new one on opening night and got all the cool shit with it last year. Damn, it’s been a year already.
