Californication Vinyl Mastering

The 1999 red hot chili peppers album californication received criticism upon release for excessive compression and distortion in its digital mastering.

Californication vinyl mastering.

As it is since i prefer the mastering of the vinyl release the only way for me to hear this version is to buy a record deck or download an illegal rip of the vinyl. 180 gram audiophile vinyl double lp. Everything is pushed to the red and it can be a fatiguing listen. It s extremely unlikely a difference this great will occur with the same mastering.

The rip of the 99 vinyl is in this range the rip of the cb vinyl scores 7db higher. Frusciante s return was credited with. Anyway my resurgent interest in the band has coincided with getting a nascent vinyl collection going. Finally there existed a retail version of the album that actually sounded good.

It was labeled by stylus magazine as a victim of the loudness war to an extent that even non audiophile consumers complained about it quot. Here s a look at the waveforms for the three versions of scar tissue we have all from lossless sources. 1 official wb cd dr4 2 unmastered unsequenced dr7 and 3. Production was excellent the mastering was horrid.

2x vinyl lp album limited edition reissue 180g country. As of 2002 the album had sold over 4 million copies in europe. Californication marked the return of john frusciante who had previously appeared on mother s milk and blood sugar sex magik to replace dave navarro as the band s guitarist. In 2012 californication was reissued on vinyl cut from a new master by chris bellman and bernie grundman.

Californication is the chili peppers most commercially successful studio release with over 16 million copies sold worldwide and more than 5 million in the u s. Not as bad as californication but another casualty of the loudness wars. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2012 180g vinyl release of californication on discogs. Vinyl cut by bernie grundman.

The practice of focusing on loudness in audio mastering can be traced back to the introduction of the compact disc but also existed to some extent when the vinyl phonograph record was the primary released recording medium and when 7 inch singles were played on jukebox machines in clubs and bars. But surprise surprise it contained several different mixes of tracks mostly in the forms that they appeared in on the rough mixes. Records 47386 1 format. Jukeboxes became popular in the 1940s and were often set to a predetermined level by the.

Californication has always sounded a bit too compressed for me anyway but this takes it to a new level. Not saying it s a bad song album just saying the production in it was really poor quality. Alternative rock funk metal. To be fair the original is pretty horribly produced.

Californication helped kick start the loudness war in the first place and producer rick rubin is a serial offender mistakenly believing that people always prefer a. Californication is the seventh studio album by american rock band red hot chili peppers it was released on june 8 1999 on warner bros. Listen free to red hot chili peppers californication unmastered.