Voodoochild

Really? Can you tell me more about it? What was wrong and did they actually fixed everything?

Or maybe because of Axl voice in that bridge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is the reason why they did that. But it’s not an excuse to have that clipping as a feature

I don’t think those songs are in the same level as Estranged. But that’s just my opinion. And I do love TWAT and SOD/The Blues. And I agree that they are incompetent with mastering and releasing it, but I don’t see it as a leftover.

Sorry man, I went back as far as page 208 and couldn’t find it. My bad.

Agree with you. Also, the guitars on this one sounds very tamed and boring.

Although there were several people warning that the leak was the final mix. I know the educated guess from people like me couldn't be taken as gospel, but still... I think there is a lot of overreaction to this track. I knew for sure that it would be divisive, but it seems that the negativity is way out of proportion. I saw some popular Brazilian twitter account saying this was the worst thing ever, and to me this is obviously not true. And I get, regular non-fan people won't compare this to CD or things like Shotgun Blues and Reckless Life/Anything Goes (I like all of those songs, I just think the overall opinion on them are not so great), they will compare with their peak. Which is fair in a way, but it's also delusional because they will never write a new WTTJ or Estranged. I mean, if you don't like it, it's fine. But it's not the end of the world nor the band.

Not very familiar with SRV, but he's more bluesy. The only thing I can relate to that is Robin's 2007 solo spot (which I love).

It could be a track that we already have, but Axl mentioned that Robin did a Stevie Ray Vaughan type of solo in an unreleased song.

Lol It’s just a song.

I really wish they would release a rocker instead of Atlas.

I don't think I had much to add, but like I've said before when it leaked: I like the song, I even prefer it to Monsters because of Slash's solo at the ending and because I really think the lyrics are powerful. This doesn't mean I like the mastering, of course.

I don’t get what people are talking about the ending. Sounds absolutely normal to me.

Did he sing anything on live performance? Maybe that could indicate something.

I agree with what Lethalis explained here:

Song shouldn't look like a brick there. It should've been more dynamic, with less of this blue stuff. This below is the song Evidence, by Faith no More. It's a slow song and clean song, but it's good to show how a more dynamic track should look like. Keep in mind, this song was ripped from YouTube, that apply compressing on its own - the track on a CD should look better than this. BTW, this song was produced by Andy Wallace. So yeah, my ears didn't tricky me. I believe that audio file I have was also ripped from YouTube. You know when you put any song in the maximum volume on your earphones or speakers and it starts to distort? That's like clipping. The frequency shouldn't be cut (in that blue waveform you can see where it's quieter). With a good pair of headphones or speakers, you can actually hear the drums distorting, like a crunchy blip.

I didn't have a better quality version of Perhaps here, but you can see that at least it's not clipping all the time (the dark blue part is not hitting the ceiling as much). It does look compressed and loud, but to my ears it's a lot better.

Absolutely. This is one of the worse things I've seen and heard in the last few years. I bought a pair of semi-professional speakers recently and oh boy, it's clipping fest. Hahahaha now I definitely need to watch it.

LOL Yeah, there's no defense for Caram on this one. Hahaha, YouTube algorithm recommended it to me, but I've never watched it. Didn't know he said all that, now I guess I'll watch if for shit and giggles.

And where's Buckethead and Robin Finck there?

Yeah, that's what I thought. He said the sitar pedal effect would be used live (and it did), but I don't think he said anything about studio.

I can't seem to identify what he did on that. Maybe the sitar was his playing? Or that strange dissonance during the chorus on Slash's side? I don't know, I see no other part where he could've been. And before people start with conspiracy theory: no, it's not his solo for gods sake. Then again, I don't see the need for three keyboardists credited there. And you're right, Caram's presence there implies that this song was mixed quite some time ago. Now people can blame him for that.

Who the fuck is Marc Haggard on guitars?

To me it sounds good, but guess that's subjective. The problem is about the quality of the audio, because the mp3 had clipping issues unlike any other release, including Hard School. So I guess this will be solved in the official release.

Don't know, there's not too much for me to say. I do think that Porto Alegre jam reminded me a bit of how SMKC's Anastasia builds up.

Oh, that's for sure. But was talking about the overall producing and mix.