petitionThere is a lot of complaining about the mastering, but in this case mastering is probably not to blame. The respected Ted Jensen did the mastering, and he has said in an e-mail posted on the Metallica forumthat "the mixes were already brick walled before they arrived at my place. Suffice it to say I would never be pushed to overdrive things as far as they are here. Believe me Im not proud to be associated with this one, and we can only hope that some good will come from this in some form of backlash against volume above all else." So the bad guy here is possibly mixing engineer Greg Fidelman. With James and Lars cheering him on, maybe"
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