Lana songs with poor mastering/engineering?

[Eternal Sunshine]

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My answer: Kintsugi and half of AKA tbh

[Waimea Bay]

American....

[Dark Angel]

many songs off of blue banisters  thunder having remnants of the demo still audible is just criminal

[DeadSeaOfMercury]

None.

[Nightcall]

1 minute ago, Waimea Bay said:

American....

Good answer. Can you expand on this one? I love that song but it definitely sounds muffled or something, but I find it charming.

[motel six]

sweet with that sweeping sound sorry idk if that’s mastering/ engineering but i need a space to share that

[Dark Angel]

2 minutes ago, Bluelake said:

Good answer. Can you expand on this one? I love that song but it definitely sounds muffled or something, but I find it charming.

 

@Lindsay Lohan has actually pointed it out before that they used some sort of high-pass filter on her voice, which makes it sound "crispy"

 

i can honestly hear it, but it doesn't take away my enjoyment of the song, personally

[Waimea Bay]

2 minutes ago, Bluelake said:

Good answer. Can you expand on this one? I love that song but it definitely sounds muffled or something, but I find it charming.

Whoever did the mixing put some sort of crazy high pass on her vocals and they sound really.....sharp?

The high pass again muffles the vocals since it cuts out the local frequencies so her vocals are basically just one flat frequency it sound robotic and muffled

And the vocals are also so much louder than the instrumental that the crazy amount of reverb they put on her vocals is really prominent

The chorus isn't awful but something about the first verses is actually horrendous I can't believe it was released in this state

 

[Charlottexseax]

11 minutes ago, White Hot 4Ever said:

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My answer: Kintsugi and half of AKA tbh

what’s wrong with Kintsugi… 

[Super Movie]

Has it been long enough for me to admit that the drums on Wildflower Wildfire actually drive me nuts 

[Dark Angel]

1 minute ago, Super Movie said:

Has it been long enough for me to admit that the drums on Wildflower Wildfire actually drive me nuts 

 

what bothers me about wildflower wildfire is that the piano is obviously synthesized/from a program, not a real piano, and it honestly sounds like it came from garageband  still one of my favorites off of blue banisters though

[Crimson and Clover]

Not really a mastering issue but TNBAR still having the “fame, fame, fame, fame…” echoes in the pre-chorus   not sure if it’s an overlook or an Easter egg but it sends me either way 

[The Grants]

fishtail omg laura sisk you will be dealt with

[Waimea Bay]

5 minutes ago, Super Movie said:

Has it been long enough for me to admit that the drums on Wildflower Wildfire actually drive me nuts 

The first three or so minutes of Wildflower is one of the best songs on Blue Banisters....and it would've been the best if they just used like normal drums.... It's so unnecessary it dosent add anything to the song...I don't see the vision....when I first listened to the album I thought my headphones were broken...and then I thought it was a production error that would get fixed....I Guess Not

[Glitter Boy]

Arcadia, Text Book and Kintsugi. I love all three songs, but let me put in words what I mean.

Arcadia - it has a terrible compression in the chorus (the vocals clash horribly it even distorts), and the overall mixing is very weird, even at such a simple instrumentation.

Text Book - some parts are so off tempo that it sounds improvised. Couldn't she had done another take with more rehearsals? Btw this also applies for Candy Necklace's second chorus, the part where Jon starts playing faster but Lana hadn't finished singing so he had to slow down and she hurries up? It's too noticeable to ignore.

Kintsugi - sounds like a voice memo placed over an instrumental - or worse, an instrumental created around a voice memo, which I'm certain it is. Again, she should've rehearsed the song based on the voice memo and then have a professional, in-studio recording for it, instead of using the first thing she recorded on her phone. @Charlottexseax at least that's what I find wrong with Kintsugi, but idk if they would mention something different.

[motel six]

notice how no one’s complaining about any ultraviolence songs 

[Ice Cream]

Sorry but I love “Heroin” so much by the way it’s my top streamed song among all of Lana’s tracks however the song has a very annoying issue which is the mic wind noise when Lana sings if you notice when you turn up the volume you can hear the wind noise and it’s very irritating to me otherwise the rest of the song is a 10/10

[rancidgirl]

BLACK BATHING SUIT .. i love the roughness of it but it would eat harder if it was professionally mixed n stuff

[Slutto]

1 hour ago, Waimea Bay said:

Whoever did the mixing put some sort of crazy high pass on her vocals and they sound really.....sharp?

The high pass again muffles the vocals since it cuts out the local frequencies so her vocals are basically just one flat frequency it sound robotic and muffled

And the vocals are also so much louder than the instrumental that the crazy amount of reverb they put on her vocals is really prominent

The chorus isn't awful but something about the first verses is actually horrendous I can't believe it was released in this state

 

I always thought there was something weird about the "you were like tall tan" bit... I'm pretty sure this is it now that you've pointed it out

[Waimea Bay]

1 minute ago, Slutto said:

I always thought there was something weird about the "you were like tall tan..." bit... I'm pretty sure this is it now that you've pointed it out

That's the part it's definitely the most severe

You Were like, tall, tan, driving round the city ??