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Come Love Come by Rhiannon Giddens from the album Freedom Highway - Video by Harvey K. Robinson

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Laurie Anderson - Big Science (1982)

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Puscifer - Horizons 

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Metal-Fi interviewed Bob Ludwig to talk about his mastering work on Avenged Sevenfold’s The Stage next to Andy Wallace:

MFi: The Stage is not only a fantastic record in its own right, but production wise, superb. And a big part of that fact has to be its clear focus on dynamics. But this isn’t A7X‘s first foray into creating dynamic metal. In fact, their last one, 2013’s Hail to the King, was also quite dynamic as well, and was the first record where you took over mastering duties. Can you give some background on how you got involved with A7X and who brought up the idea of bringing back dynamics in the first place? Was the band even aware of the Loudness War?

Bob: Much as I liked Hail To The King, I think The Stage is their tour de force with such excellent musicianship. I bet there aren’t many bands in the world who could even copy a few bars of their music, it’s so fast and precise.

The band was well aware of the Loudness War and it was part of the conversation from the get-go. A few years ago M. Shadows wrote me, “We have always been anti-loud. We need to feel the dynamics, gloss, and overall hugeness without losing the tones we worked so hard for.”

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I Gave You All by Mumford & Sons from the album Sigh No More

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Pony & The Kid by Korey Dane from the album Youngblood

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Oblivion by Mastodon - Directed by Robert Schober

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The Smoke by The Smile - A film by Mark Jenkin