DUBCC - Tha Connection > West Coast Connection
COMPTON VS. MISSIONARY ... WHICH DO YOU PREFER?
The Predator:
How do you think the other two recent Dre projects performed on a mix/master point, GTA The Contract and Casablanco?
Sccit:
--- Quote from: The Predator on August 24, 2025, 12:17:55 AM ---How do you think the other two recent Dre projects performed on a mix/master point, GTA The Contract and Casablanco?
--- End quote ---
GTA was weak too .. i remember people thought that it was mixed/mastered poorly on purpose because of the video game concept being that these were demos or some other stupid shit lol
casablanco seemed ok ... sounded good enough .. but nothing mind blowing like your typical dre level mix/master
Jay_J:
--- Quote from: Sccit on August 23, 2025, 11:33:55 PM ---
naah i thought the mix and master on compton was excellent
just a different style .. more focus on vocal prominence, but the music still sounded big .. it just differed from the darker sound of 2001
but the mixing and mastering on missionary was way below the dre standard .. and my theory is that the divorce leading up to the aneurism affected him in a big way
--- End quote ---
Funny thing is focus who mixed compton with dre even said that he agrees with fans that mastering fucked it up and he even complain about it.
Jay_J:
--- Quote from: phatj on August 23, 2025, 07:54:46 PM ---Thank you is horrible, complete shit from the jump!.
Hard Knocks & Prssure sound more like an actual Snoop & Dre track.
Thank you should have been never made OR deleted after first listen in the studio.
--- End quote ---
To me thank you is the only hit song of the album. Its the only dr.dre production which sounds like a dre production in last 15 years.
Sccit:
--- Quote from: Jay_J on August 24, 2025, 01:13:12 AM ---Funny thing is focus who mixed compton with dre even said that he agrees with fans that mastering fucked it up and he even complain about it.
--- End quote ---
sounds to me like a typical insecure response
someone says your work isn't what they want to hear.. the person in question deflects blame.. "it wasn't us it was the mastering engineer! i even said so before we turned it in!!!"
but the same person who mastered compton also mastered 2001 and missionary (brian gardner)
and the mastering falls on the producers too.. because the producer guides the mastering engineer on how he wants the final master to sound...
compton was high on sibilance, no doubt .. to me, it sounded like a conscious decision from dre to focus on vocal clarity ala stadium music .. that vocal prominence that doesn't blend in with the beat is very popular in music today
u hear it in missionary too... but in missionary, it's not just vocal prominence with high sibilance, because to make matters worse the music sounds small on top of that
the issues with missionary went beyond mastering .. it was the mix, first n foremost
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version