2022 Grammy Award Show?

gpgr4blu: I think your answer is the answer i expected from most here.  I work in professional and hi fi circles so I know many of the people behind these records, even a few at the Academy.  I used to ask how could Katy Perry win a grammy for Firework?  Its mixed awful, sounds awful- at least on a high rez system etc.  I was told the "pop" committee felt the recording affected more people than any other, so that's why it won.  Make sense, I think that's right.  You could turn on the radio without hearing it for years.     

The record I was curious about was Doja Cat.  There is a major MAJOR money invested in that one, they hired some top people to mix some of those songs.   It sounds good, has a tons of bottom end in it.  Compressed and a bit sweet, the recording is the heart of the pop "sound" right now.  Some good songs, not sure I love the arrangements in all cases but its a very impressive body of work. 

Chris Stapleton got record of the year in Country, that record sounds very good.  George Massenburg won in multichannel/surround mixes for Alicia Keys.  He's a master, did Famous Blue Raincoat so long ago and Joshua Judges Ruth- both great "audiophile" records.

Brad 

If you dive into the grammy site, you can fidn th3e best of the best from the last year in every category you can think of:

 2022 GRAMMYs Awards Show: Complete Winners & Nominations List

Look under "General Field"

Wow 2chFreak:

That was a dark, cynical post: if I don’t like it, its worthless junk? I am not sure what American Idol or the Voice has to do with the Recording Academy (the entity behind the Grammy Awards). The Academy’s mission is to elevate quality standards and recognize achievement (in the recording industry not the music industry). When you are hired to track, mix or master a record, you aren’t arguing with the artist you are recording as what the songs are or should be. Your job is to make it sound as good as you can. The Grammy’s judge that process, not the music itself.

Brad

Larsman

Wow you are right about 10 years ago! 20 years ago it was different yet again. The tour used to be the marketing for the record sales; now its completely flipped: the money is in the tour, not the record. So many artists self fund records now to sell tickets for a tour. I wonder if most people know the big artists often rent the arena and operate "the show" themselves? From posts in this forum, I can see many people are under the illusion that its like it 30 years ago when Record Companies where in control of everything, including the tour, the record, the songs on the record, the mix engineer, the mastering etc. That was a long long time ago. While most people in the business are happy those times are gone, the development money for new artists is gone too. So now only the top sellers have cash.  Rick Rubin is still out there funding new artists.  He has found some good ones and made some some sounding records I think.

Brad