What album, in you opinion has the best production value? Mixing, mastering and total sound quality.

Here's a comment I had posted on a similar thread about a month ago, but I'll still add some more stuff

I'm big into audio mixing/mastering/producing, so here's a list of some of my favorite producers and artists with specific music examples. All bands/albums have a YouTube link so you can hear for yourself. Anything from Brian Hood: ERRA's Impulse/Augment/Moments of Clarity, Invent Animate's Everchanger, To Release's Lapse Some of Will Putney's stuff: Reflections' The Color Clear, Silent Planet's Everything Was Sound, and the Fit For An Autopsy albums Polaris' The Guilt & The Grief Outland's Grave Mind: The producer did an excellent job on this release, shame the band has went under the radar. Thick and clear guitars, super punchy bass that has it's own space in the mix, and good use of saturation on the vocals. Stuff by Julian Rodriguez (Elitist, Sean Hall, Circle of Contempt), though Structures for Creation by COC could use a bit more body/fullness. Volumes' Feels Good. Such a great mix. Diego (guitarist of Volumes/producer) also has done a bunch of work with Pouya and Fat Nick which is sick as well. Buster Odeholm's work: Humanity's Last Breath, Born Of Osiris, Beyond Cure, and Heartaches Cameron Mizell at Chango Studios: Might be a bit generic, but you can't tell me that his releases don't sound great. Slaves, for example. Nick Sampson: I have a love-hate relationship with his mixes. On one side, I adore what he has done with Polyphia. The mixes on Muse and Renaissance fit their music perfectly. On the other hand, I hate his mix on ERRA's Drift. That is one of the main reasons why I dislike that album. EDIT: Randy LeBouf: Invent, Animate's Stillworld And most of all: Roman Kharyukov. Most of you have never heard of him, but his work with Change Of Loyalty/ChocoSlayc, Wildways, Sarah Where Is My Tea (who coincidentally became Wildways), Shredding Brazzers, and general Russian metalcore is insane. Give some of those artists a listen, I'm sure you won't be disappointed with the mixes or music. Punchy drums, audible but balanced bass, clear but full guitars, and and perfectly processed vocals.

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