Quote Originally Posted by Rantz Rantz Revolution View Post
I came in here expecting a grandpa rant about how tasteless modern music is, and instead found myself slightly more learned than I was before. Cheers!
This.

I've heard of this stuff being done but wasn't sure about the extent of it, and I remember clearly the whole Death Magnetic/Guitar Hero fiasco.
A friend of mine studied something akin to music technology/audio engineering/tonmeister, so i also learned a few bits and bobs off him.

I don't understand why this is still being done? There are absolutely NO advantages to this anymore, and shouldn't have been a thing in the first place.
Arguably the only genre where this sort of thing actually works is in Lo-Fi indie music, which is characterized by intentional garage band low quality sounding audio, which to me sort of seems like they are just trying to be cool and ironic and all indie (I do like the band Yuck though), and even then I don't think clipping is really the method they use.