Badly mixed "major" tracks / albums?

Sometimes you hear a track (or even an entire album) that's poorly mixed even though it's by a well-known producer... or it might even be a hiphop classic, but you still think you could have done some of it better.

Name some tracks or albums where you think the producer messed up (of course old demos and freestyles don't count).


I gotta say, I think almost all snares on Outkast's ATLiens album are WAY too loud...listening to that album with headphones is a pain in the ass (ears, actually), and it bothers me that Organised Noise keep using the same drums all over again.

Soul survivor......

CD release high end is dull as ever.....always gotta boost it

2pac strickly for my ******. maybe its just me but it seems the bass is way too loud on most of the songs. could be because im comparing it vs the latest technology.

there's a track on Gang Starr's Full Clip album called The Militia Pt II, Bumpy Knuckles' verse is distorted and clipped all to hell. I don't know how they allowed that to be released.

rickrock305 wrote:there's a track on Gang Starr's Full Clip album called The Militia Pt II, Bumpy Knuckles' verse is distorted and clipped all to hell. I don't know how they allowed that to be released.

i believe your referring to "Capture ( militia pt. 3 )" off of "The Ownerz" album... i dont recall distortion on "militia pt. 2" from "Full Clip" which was the track with WC and Rakim IIRC...

fobedafied wrote:

rickrock305 wrote:there's a track on Gang Starr's Full Clip album called The Militia Pt II, Bumpy Knuckles' verse is distorted and clipped all to hell. I don't know how they allowed that to be released.

i believe your referring to "Capture ( militia pt. 3 )" off of "The Ownerz" album... i dont recall distortion on "militia pt. 2" from "Full Clip" which was the track with WC and Rakim IIRC...

Its on the Full Clip album as well. disc one, track nine.

i believe that is "militia pt. 1" which features the same emcees...

i dunno, i don't have my CDs in front of me. but you know what i'm talking about.

yep,

that one popped in my head as soon as i saw this thread...

jeru the damaja-the sun rises in the east. that whole cd is quiet as h ell.

i've got the sun rises on vinyl and it sounds great.

legs mechanical wrote:i've got the sun rises on vinyl and it sounds great.

yea? the cd i bought back when the album drop'd sounds horrible. maaaad low

bicedidit wrote:that whole cd is quiet as h ell.

thats why they put volume knobs on stereos

^Served.

ODB's Return to the 36 Chambers and Dan The Automator's A Much Better Tommorow had terrible mixing. WAY too much bass. The ODB really needs a remixed/remastered re-release, cuz that's a top-10 album

rickrock305 wrote:

bicedidit wrote:that whole cd is quiet as h ell.

thats why they put volume knobs on stereos

no sh*t sherlock, but in comparison to the rest of my cd's, its mad quiet