At least as far as Metallica's new album "Death Magnetic" is concerned, that is. There'd been some comments recently that the audio quality on the CD was overly compressed, and that in fact the audio quality of the songs in Guitar Hero (where the tracks were released day-and-date alongside the album) was considerably better.
Now there appears to be some objective data backing up those claims. Kotaku linked to an article claiming that the sound engineer has disavowed the mastering on the CD. The same article links to a YouTube video where someone had ripped the CD and compared it to the Guitar Hero audio. Looks pretty clear that the CD is waaaaay overcompressed (as in dynamic range, not as in MP3 compression). The waveforms look like the ones I end up with, but I work with science lectures and no one cares if there's no dynamic range.
Should be interesting how Metallica responds to this. And no, I'm not a big metalhead... in fact, it was Metallica's damned "Enter Sandman" that kept me from getting to the last group of songs in Rock Band/Guitar/Hard difficulty.
Engineer Disowns Metallica's "Death Magnetic"
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