By James Pew

Due to the over the top distorted loudness treatment of Metallica’s new record, over 16,000 fans have signed an online petition to have Death Magnetic re-mixed and re-mastered. Here is a response from Ted Jensen (mastering engineer for Death Magnetic) of Sterling Sound.

“I get to slam my head against that brick wall every day. In this case, the mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived at my place. Suffice to say I would never be pushed to overdrive things as far as they are here. “Believe me I’m not proud to be associated with this one, and we can only hope that some good will come from this in some form of backlash against volume above all else.” – Ted Jensen

For more insight on the loudness wars check out Welcome to the Land of Loud, and listen to the BBC Radio 4 discussion of the Death Magnetic loudness issue below.

Check out this video made in response to Metallica’s co-manager, Cliff Burnstein, who said – “fans find the sound on Death Magnetic exciting, and are really responding to it.” This video aims to give Metallica’s back catalog the same Death Magnetic loudness treatment.

Metallica’s Death Magnetic – Another victim of the Loudness Wars by James Pew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

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