Chess,

Now that you’ve had a chance to listen to the recordings, is your opinion that they are poorly mastered…..in general?

The ones I sent you are in my opinion, not mastered poorly, but yet still have the sibilant traits on some tracks. But on other tracks, they sounded pretty darn good to me.

That’s the argument that I was looking to get another opinion on, and why I sent them to you. Argument being, that just because a track has sibilance present, doesn’t necessarily mean that it was poorly mastered. And, that not all hard rock/metal/alt recordings should be lumped into a category and labeled as “inferior” from a recording perspective.