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Originally Posted by ayu-michan
I’m no expert on musical technical stuffs but is it just me or the quality of her newer music’s mixing went downhill compare to back in the 00s? For example step by step sounds really noisy, like the instrumentals don’t have any layers and they just throw it all together. But her old music has a ton of different instumentals, but they don’t sound “noisy”. Am i the only one in this??? Nowadays every time I listen to her newer albums (like Trouble for instance), I have to lower the volume because whenever she sings high notes, the background music would pierce my ears. It feels like 128kbps in comparison to 320kbps LOL
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Yea, as far as I'm concerned the decline in the mixing/mastering (I'm no expert, either) in Ayu's albums started with "Love songs" (the .WAV version of "MOON" from USB is the only one with a bearable guitar instrumental during the chorus, while the CD versions all show similar distortions (single/album likewise).
At some point of her career Ayu must have lost some important people that were responsible for processes in the studio production. You can definitely tell her music has been lacking that "polished" feel for a couple of years by now.
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Originally Posted by attractive nausea
Every song released in 2009 loool
A lot of people here feel like this, I do feel like this also. I thought A ONE's mixing was an improvement, but songs like We are the QUEENS are really painful to listen to because of this
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The digital version of "We are the QUEENS" that was initially released - yes! Ever since we got hold of the CD version everything sounds decent to me, though
