The worst examples are his 2005-2010 work on Rascal Flatts albums ( Me and My Gang through Unstoppable), where the strings and screaming guitars are so thick that Gary LeVox, who already has an extremely high-pitched nasal voice, has to resort to an ear-splitting, melismatic squeal just to be heard over all the noise.He loves to turn all the guitars Up to Eleven in spots where they don't need to be (often played by Huff himself), and then sometimes throw a blaring string section on top of that. Dann Huff is notorious for his overblown production in country music.Things also have a habit of ducking out of the mix for split seconds all over the place, much like the music ducks out when a voice speaks during a radio commercial, due to Nakata's ongoing quest to make every second of a song hit 0 dB. His 2011 albums, capsule's WORLD OF FANTASY and Perfume's JPN, hit Californication levels of distortion, to the point where melody lines that are supposed to be dead centre are wobbling around the stereo field from all of the other instruments momentarily hogging frequency range. Nakata's production has steadily been pushing the limits of what compression can do with every successive release he's worked on. Anything produced by Yasutaka Nakata: technopop group Perfume, capsule, MEG, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, etc.Everything mixed by Howie Weinberg since 1999, including some New Zealand albums (sadly).The people who mastered Tame Impala's and Wolfmother's CDs need to be brought before a war crimes tribunal. Australian artists are among the worst offenders.
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