GREAT CD Joe!! I love it.

One thing that bugs me though.. whoever mastered it killed all the dynamic range dude!! WTF!?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/Pluvious/sigh2.jpg

Your music shouldn't be messed with like this. Too late for this CD but maybe next time you can look into this problem that is going on with pretty much EVERY CD getting released nowadays.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about .. everyone should check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

repost for importance: (Thanks for noticing Stu)

GREAT CD Joe!! I love it. Can't wait for the tour.. I'm in San Fran area

One thing that bugs me though.. whoever mastered it killed all the dynamic range dude!!

Picture of blown out track

Your music shouldn't be messed with like this. Too late for this CD but maybe next time you can look into this problem that is going on with pretty much EVERY CD getting released nowadays.

Regarding the loudness wars stuff.. thanks MARITIME for the links. Good read. It's a shame the artists are not in more control of what is done to their music. I would have assumed they would want the mastering engineer to make it sound the best. I suppose we can blame MP3's.

I also want to say I agree with STU, this CD still sounds great and I probably wouldn't have even noticed if I hadn't accidentally clicked the edit track button and saw that blown out wave.

JOE if you see this.. please tell your engineers to take it easy with the loudness next time, since it blows out the dynamic range too much. I miss the PUNCH. :( Any comment about this topic would be appreciated.