timetravelist

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A Let's Play of this might be one of the best things ever. I hope this happens.

Holy SHIT you mean. Samsung Heavy Industries Turbine.

wouldn't it be nice to hold a letter of marque in your personal collection though?

give it time.

It sure sounds clean and pretty but there's a sense of artificiality I can't shake.

I think you're describing the "loudness war".

Also, if you listen to some older recordings made back when stereophonic sound was still a novelty, a LOT of albums were mixed quite differently compared to today. It wasn't uncommon to hear things panned hard left and hard right. So all the vocals might be in the right, while all the drums were on the left. I don't think this is necessarily what you're talking about, but it's something you might run into eventually, and when you do you may find it irritating, since you're essentially using headphones instead of speakers, which makes the hard mixing very tiring to a lot of listeners. To fix this, you'll want to look into crossfeed. (There's a winamp plugin that will do this for you.)

Anyway, there are still some bands out there that record on old analog equipment and have much greater dynamic range than newer recording methods. Most vinyl is also mastered differently, long story short, the "loudness war" mastering style and vinyl are not very compatible. You might find you're a fan of vinyl. Come check out /r/vinyl