"Smile" de Brian Wilson

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Esto ha llevado a que Bob Ludwig, el ingeniero de masterizacion del album, le contestara lo siguiente el 12 de octubre pasado:

"I'm sorry your tastes in mastering run contrary to mine and my clients. I am a musician and hold a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music so sound is very important to me. Not everyone hears things the same. The internet has the ability to highlight your negative opinion of my work for all to see and that is fine. I would humbly point out to you that of the 5 albums up for the 2005 Grammy Awards "Best Engineered Album" I mastered two of them, "The Bad Plus" and "Smile". While "Smile" was nominated (by many many people) for "Best Engineered Album", it lost to Ray Charles (as every category did that year!). So, somehow, amongst the literally thousands of records released in 2004, enough people seemed to forgive my "very muddy bottom end and just an overall iffy eq" and vote it into the top 5 list of "Best Engineered" albums. By the way, the previous year my client WON the "Best Engineered Album" award for "Hail to the Thief" by Radiohead. Rolling Stone magazine gave "Smile" 5 stars. Tower Records.com gives it 5 full stars. Other engineer friends of mine tell me they calibrate their systems with it. Thank goodness the vast majority of people seem to like my work. I'm delighted Brian and Mark chose me to work on it, I'm a big Brian Wilson fan (having engineered several of his previous solo albums and growing up with his music). For the sound and dynamic range of the "Smile" mastering, only TWO opinions counted for evaluating my work, Brian Wilson and, to an extent, Mark Linett. If a SINGLE NOTE was not satisfactory to either of them they would have changed it. (and they did!). As to "homogenizing levels" I can only point you to "Wind Chimes" which goes from very soft to very loud within the same song. If you want more dynamic range than that I'm sorry, Brian and Mark thought it was just right (I had previously given them versions less dynamic and MORE dynamic from which to choose). What you don't like, Brian did, and I think that is important. Best wishes. Bob Ludwig President Gateway Mastering & DVD Portland, ME"

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