What are your favorite "sounding" albums?

[dstroud]

I'm working on mixing my cd and so I was going through all my cd's getting my ears "tuned in" to mix. Man, one cd that sounded better than any other was UFO Walk On Water. Drums, guitar, bass, vox - everything was perfect. Some cd's had bigger drums, bigger guitars, but it seems you usually sacrafice one thing for another, but that UFO cd was on all around. You guy's got any favorite sounding cd's?

 

[degenaro]

I'm working on mixing my cd and so I was going through all my cd's getting my ears "tuned in" to mix. Man, one cd that sounded better than any other was UFO Walk On Water. Drums, guitar, bass, vox - everything was perfect. Some cd's had bigger drums, bigger guitars, but it seems you usually sacrafice one thing for another, but that UFO cd was on all around. You guy's got any favorite sounding cd's?

Prince - 3121

 

[jaybird]

Rush - Moving Pictures
ACDC - Back in Black

 

[CaseyCor]

Rush - Signals (mostly Subdivisons), what an AWESOME drum sound! That china cymbal in the opening
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

vinyl press of Fair Warning and 25 and 6 to 4 on 45.

 

[Meathead]

Rush - Moving Pictures
ACDC - Back in Black

Back In Black is a very fine tuned sound...drums and guitars sound great to me.

My faves are Zeppelin 2 and 4 and Stone Temple Pilots 'Purple'.
I like natural sounding albums, stuff today seems so over-squashed with limiting, no life.
I have a hard time listening to newer stuff for sound quality.

 

[CaseyCor]

Rush - Moving Pictures
ACDC - Back in Black

Back In Black is a very fine tuned sound...drums and guitars sound great to me.

My faves are Zeppelin 2 and 4 and Stone Temple Pilots 'Purple'.
I like natural sounding albums, stuff today seems so over-squashed with limiting, no life.

Purple does sound fuckin' awesome! Tiny Music is good too, but Purple just sounds "bigger"

 

[SQUAREHEAD]

"sounding"- Tool - 10000 Years.

The best mixed / production of any cd I've ever heard! Not much into their music but wow! What an amazingly produced piece of work!

Keith

Favorite alltime album- Fair Warning- Van Halen 1981...

 

[Digital Jams]

For a power guitar and drum sound The Cult had some killer mixes with HUGE sounding guitars.

Newer Floyd has some outstanding production going on as well, very open sounding.

80s stuff check out Accept's Balls to the Wall.....HUGE Marshall tone happening and very open sounding unlike today's generic metal quad tracked sound.

 

[Juggernaut]

OK I'll say it first.......

Metallica - Black Album

Testament - The Gathering
Tool - Lateralus
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Pantera - VDOP


There are more, but those come to mind first..........

 

[CaseyCor]

Weird Al's records always has a great sound

 

[bunghole]

KD-Abigail
MF-In The Shadows
GWAR -AMBD
Overkill - years of decay
Behemoth - apostasy

 

[Digital Jams]

One more guitar wise........Whitesnake 87 is the tone of the gods imo for that time.

 

[CaseyCor]

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake. Awesome drum sound, very interesting guitar tone.
System of a Down - Toxicity - A brick wall of sound!

 

[dstroud]

Rush - Moving Pictures
ACDC - Back in Black

Yeah, I gotta dig out Back in Black - I'm sure that sounds awesome! Moving Pictures is by far my fave Rush cd, love the solo to Limelight!

 

[j666]

i hate the album but godsmack "awake" sounds awesome. here's a few more i dig.

lamb of god - as the palaces burn (i know alot of people hate it but it's soooo raw...very in your face)
fight - war of words (huuuuge bass sound without the mud)
job for a cowboy - genesis (very warm/round sounding for a death metal album...very "big" tho.)
pink floyd - wish you were here (excellent production for the time)

again...i hate the album but korn "follow the leader" has a pretty nice sound to it too...altho not as nice as the godsmack lp.

 

[dstroud]

For a power guitar and drum sound The Cult had some killer mixes with HUGE sounding guitars.

Newer Floyd has some outstanding production going on as well, very open sounding.

80s stuff check out Accept's Balls to the Wall.....HUGE Marshall tone happening and very open sounding unlike today's generic metal quad tracked sound.

I'll have to pick up the Cult (probably the one with Fire Woman) and that Accept - I loved Balls to the Wall when that came out!

 

[dstroud]

"sounding"- Tool - 10000 Years.

The best mixed / production of any cd I've ever heard! Not much into their music but wow! What an amazingly produced piece of work!

Keith

Favorite alltime album- Fair Warning- Van Halen 1981...

yeah, I have that - I didn't dig the tunes and haven't listened to it since it came out - I'll have to throw it on for a sonic reference, thanks!

 

[mrp5150]

Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Iron Maiden - Brave New World & Dance Of Death
Caliban - The Opposite From Within
Carcass - Heartwork
Ratt - Dancing Undercover
Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Eric Johnson - Venus Isle
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
In Flames - The Jester Race
The Absence - Riders Of The Plague

 

[j666]

Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Iron Maiden - Brave New World & Dance Of Death
Caliban - The Opposite From Within
Carcass - Heartwork
Ratt - Dancing Undercover
Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Eric Johnson - Venus Isle
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
In Flames - The Jester Race
The Absence - Riders Of The Plague