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Or the original recording sucks and they couldn't even set the correct gain on the preamps while recording

This guy claims that the vinyl picture from GnR France is fake and that someone had it pressed by a Czech manufacturer. I mean, who prints just one unit.. You can't do that lol. Especially with all the Guns copyrights slapped on it. Anyway, I was skeptical too, saying it didn't sound like Slash playing, because the mix didn't feel recent. Turns out, it's even worse—they took the old mix and recorded some guitars and bass over it. I really can't understand why they released such a poorly produced song. The drums are a disaster, clipping all over the place. Just give it a spin at 1:00, and you'll hear two kick drums out of sync—it's clearly a mistake because the next pre-chorus has just one. The whole orchestration is like -40dB, and the choruses are basically copy-paste.. Come on, this could've been an awesome song, but after 20 years, we get a demo version. I'm happy if most fans dig it, but personally, it's a letdown. I still love the lyrics and think this is a powerful song.

Of course. But I don't have Apple Music on my New Zealand account, so I had to listened to it through iTunes, and it's not lossless there. It's still better than the leak which was around 128Kbs if I remember Edit : It was 320Kbs, so actually good quality.

Just listened to it, and it does clip. Specially during the drums fill like the leak. I mean, the leak is the same as the official release.

If it's only a matter of few dBs, no. But a different mix involve reverb, delay, EQs, and effects. These are audio processing that will be directly noticeable.

The only reason I said that is because I find it really hard to understand how finished versions from 2 years ago have already leaked out to hoarders. I mean, the last leaks from CD sessions surfaced in 2019, nearly 20 years after they were recorded, and we would have some final versions from 2 years or less? Anyway we will have our answer very soon, and I'm looking forward to hear it lossless. I don't want to mess with the fans, as long as the song is good I don't really care who's playing on it

The "new leaks" are bullshit.. Perhaps is not even on the same sample rate than the 2 others. And it's totally normal because the original leaks for The General - Monsters were at 48KHz.. like the new leaks.. So for those hearing a new mix and don't know anything about compression, I'm glad you guys don't work as mixing engineers

This is the exact same version as the leak. Only radio compression makes certain elements sound louder

It was mastered by Bob Ludwig trust me the vinyl mastering was perfect from the start

Well to be honest I didn't try to recognize Slash playing. I was saying it's not him because they re-recorded the Chinese songs in 2020 and I highly doubt a so recent recording could leak. I agree to say some parts remind me of Slash it was more about theorising on the recording date As for the cell phone clip, of course it sounds far. But the differences are very notable, the chorus has not the same feeling at all, I just enjoy it more, as well as the solo (don't care who play it, I just like it you know)

Just buy yourself a pair of ears dude everything will be fine

So what do you think about the future release? We will get "The General" as we have it now without Monsters? Or both songs as a 9 minutes track?

But it has been confirmed yesterday Soul Monster is Monsters

You mean Me & My Elvis?

Did I say Slash ruined the song? I prefer the instrumental from back then, I have a vocal removed version of that clip so I don't hear any people but the song.