Rich Chycki (Rush - Snakes & Arrows) will mix the new DT album?

[ZeppelinDT]

Let's not forget that Rich Chycki played guitar with James Labrie in Winter Rose.

[tri.ad]

SDOIT could use a bit of reworking on the mix or mastering or something. Something about it does beg for a bit reworking. It does sound good, but not as good as it could be.

The mix is mostly fine, but it's too loud - you can hear clipping on several spots on the album (particularly the breakdown before the scratch-scratch part in The Glass Prison). I don't think that we'll get a good remaster of SDOIT, though.

[theusualmadness]

Repost.

We read it the first time you posted it.

That was supposed to be an edit, on another post. Is there a way to delete a post?

[KevShmev]

S&A sounded really good, especially by modern standards (in other words, not as good as stuff like PT or newer Opeth, but much better than your averaged compressed-to-death CD), so this is probably a good thing.

Overall, 6DOIT sounds good (easily the best "sounding" CD of the Rudess era), with the only drawback being that the heavy songs/parts sound a bit too much muddy, but considering what compressed messes the next few CDs sounded like, I'll take it.

[emindead]

SDOIT sounds bad but due to many factors... It also is easily the worst album for JLB, it's just poor vocal delivery.

[ZirconBlue]

SDOIT sounds bad but due to many factors... It also is easily the worst album for JLB, it's just poor vocal delivery.

I think I disagree with every word of this post.  Except maybe "the".

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

SDOIT sounds bad but due to many factors... It also is easily the worst album for JLB, it's just poor vocal delivery.

This is so wrong in many levels.

[LCArenas]

SDOIT sounds bad but due to many factors... It also is easily the worst album for JLB, it's just poor vocal delivery.

I think I disagree with every word of this post.  Except maybe "the".

That.

[EstyMaJ]

I always thought the sound of S+A was great BUT always found that the highhats and cymbles in Far cry sound funny
I don't know who did labries Static impulse but i love the sound on that !

[jonny108]

Jens Bogren did Static Impulse, I think he did the Mixing on that??

[The Curious Orange]

It's good, but it sounds awful. A remix might just push it in a better direction.

Listening to it right now, sounds great. A remix might make it better though.

The mix is perfectly fine, if a little harsh, but that's apparantly the sound the band wanted. The MASTERING is f*cking awful, thanks to the dumb-ass record companiy and their stupid "loudness wars". The thing's damn near unlistenable - Good news if we're getting a better version, because it's some of the best music Rush have made (One Little Victory, Secret Touch), and deserves to be heard as it was intended to be.

[tri.ad]

If I remember correctly, Rush said that the problems with the sound already occurred during the recording, not during the mastering (I don't have an exact source on that, but I remember reading this). As far as I know, the album already sounded substandard to them before the mastering, and the mastering itself made it even worse.

[King Postwhore]

tri.ad is correct.  I'd still like to listen to another mix.

I do like that S & A had a modern sound but still have an organic sound to it.  There was separation to the instruments and they were able to breath.  A big sticking point to me of late.

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

I always thought the sound of S+A was great BUT always found that the highhats and cymbles in Far cry sound funny
I don't know who did labries Static impulse but i love the sound on that !

I hear you. I love the mix of Static Impulse. The drums sound powerful and boomy, the guitars have a hell-lot presence and the vocals sound in your face. It sounds powerful but not over-compressed like most modern metal releases.