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Black Sabbath - The Black Box - The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Black Sabbath - The Black Box - The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978
Thursday, January 15, 2009
I love these old albums. I'm not a 'heavy metal' fan as such - never have been, and have always considered the term rather juvenile. I like quality music by talented musicians. Black Sabbath are seriously gifted musicians, and I love this music.
Unfortunately for me, the producers of these remasters have succumbed like everybody else to the current trend of mastering everything as hot as it will go, and like the vast majority of rock and pop releases since at least the year 2000, these recordings are compressed to f***, with the previously heard dynamics and punch all but gone.
Make no mistake, there is nothing 'superior' about the remastering of these albums. The number one goal has been to make these recordings play back as loudly as possible, and that has to be at the cost of dynamics. EQ has also been set to sound very bright (optimum sound for little computer speakers) with Geezer's bass lines sounding thin and struggling to get through.
Exactly the same thing happened with the Genesis box sets. Over-compressed and over-bright.
Here's a great little link on the subject:
http://funl.blogspot.com/2007/06/loudness-war.html
And this article:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity?source=music_news_rssfeed
To be fair, there are worse examples of over-zealous compression than the Sabbath ones - but not much.
3/10
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