Quote from: SenAM on Sep 27, 2025, 05:09 PMIt's definitely not just those two, the whole album suffers from this. Fuck, I've even heard distorting ride cymbals on Departing the Body, which is super bizarre. I've never heard clipping ride cymbals in any other rock adjacent album in my life, which is telling. Like some other user said around here, the songs are mad fatiguing to listen to, especially in one sitting despite how concise the album is.

Did Nick really produce this? Did fucking Rich Costey, of all people, really mix this? He was in charge of mixing instructions for Koi, so that's definitely a disappointment. Howie Weinberg mastered it, and so did he on Gore and Ohms too, so the mastering is probably not at fault. I wish this fucking trend went away. It makes everything sound toothless.

Long time lurker here, just created an account to reply to this because I felt obliged. There is no clipping on the ride in departing the body. That is a sequencer/drum machine overlay. If you have decent headphones or speakers you should be able to tell. It's even panned differently, the ride is centre right and the sequencer is centre left.
I agree that (as is the case with most of Nick's records), there is too much compression, but I also think the actual mixing and sonics/tones on this album are the best of the three Nick albums. 

Dude just released a new version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK-cjUMJ4Ck

Thanks for the reply, and thank you for posting the video.

Please let us know if you end up making a remaster of it.  I would love to hear it.

Hey, the link that you posted is actually my video and I am currently working on a better remaster of that tape. Yes, I have the original FLAC files but they are pretty much the same quality as the versions on Youtube. To hear the demo in better quality, someone either has to digitize the original tape, or I have to do the best I can to restore most of the original audio quality. Hope this helps!

Would you DM me a download link for the MP3?  When I try to DM you, it says your mailbox is currently full.  I really appreciate it. 

Also, thank you for making the remastered version of the Bob Ezrin demos.  I have been listening to those a lot lately.

This is true for another record or two as well, but I really wish Frank was louder in the mix, especially Ecdysis. His keyboard playing an atmosphere would make the songs a lot better if it were louder and it's really my only gripe

A Dome light is all that remains...

Seriously a top 5 album in the Catalog for me.

Frank and Abe own the record. Beautifully produced by Nick. Steph sets the groove.

It was during the Gore era because I remember Chino talking about the Elvis cover and how he was liking that old timey reverb vocal effect, which you hear a lot on Gore.

Idk if they could pull off Elvis but I'm damn curious to find out! We know Chino has the range.

Quote from: Dawnofwar2010 on Sep 27, 2025, 08:36 PM

Quote from: Penicks on Sep 27, 2025, 04:35 AMthat 12-year old who was responsible for half of the posts in this thread has been awful quiet, ya think him discovering deftones six months ago was just a phase

Im 15, and i discovered deftones 3 years ago, do NOT diss me like that,

He missed you 

Nice top 3 btw. Poltergeist is underrated. I remember seeing Deftones open with Rats! and it was amazing, underrated song as well.

My current PM favorites are
1 MMIAM
2 Locked Club
3 MOTM

MOTM really grew on me but it is the stand out track on the album fs

Quote from: endstand on Apr 22, 2025, 05:04 PMPlease reupload leaked White Pony version.

https://archive.org/details/deftones-09-passenger-feat.-maynard-james-keenan

good source for Deftones unreleased in general:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16wzspV6U33C0DZ1Q-jwBl4onRU_7E6aMl5_MhfVKqAs/edit?usp=sharing