[OCRA-0033 - Mega Man X: Maverick Rising]

I've listened to this song a number of times, both during and after completion. While I agree it is somewhat loud, you're right in that there is no clipping. However, it matches volume with the majority of other tracks on the album that are "loud". Calling it "ugly" and "shit" notwithstanding, I'm not hearing any significant volume pumping as a result of overcompression.

You are supposed to hear the drums and snares pumping, but overcompression removes all of the impacts and makes a flat noise out of it. That track has a dynamic range of 5! FIVE! And this is not a hardcore techno song, even some of those have dynamic ranges of about 8. This is a heavy metal song, but it sounds completely bland, like a bag with shit smashed with a hammer...

Why would you spend weeks in creating a nice song and during the so-called "mastering" remove any kind of impact by simply turning up the volume and putting a hard limiter on top? If I wanna have it loud, I turn up the volume of my stereo. ocremix should not allow these kind of songs to get through the judging process...

I waited so long for this album and anyone had been given months to perfect their tracks and now some are overcompressed and some are even clipped. It's more like "42 tracks and about 20 pieces of noise!" instead of the actual description. I'm feeling like this:

[OCRA-0033 - Mega Man X: Maverick Rising]

Listened through the first disc and I'm impressed! This album is very good so far, except one thing:

1-11 Tuck 'n Roll [MMX - Armored Armadillo Stage] (The OverClocked Plaid Muffins)

That track is an ugly piece of overcompressed shit. There is no need to play the loudness war, but at least it's not clipped.