Hybrid Theory differences
- Papercut - No difference
- One Step Closer - No difference. Intro guitar looped? It was before, but more obvious now
- With You - No difference
- Points of Authority - Synth during chorus more prominent, VERY minor difference
- Crawling - "ping pong" percussion in bridges quieter, with less reverb
- Runaway - No difference
- By Myself - Synth during chorus is more prominent, but again very minor difference
- In The End - More limiting. Effects on Mike's vocals sound "worse"
- A Place For My Head - No difference
- Forgotten - No difference
- Cure For The Itch - More limiting, clipping during the last "chorus" section. Sounds nasty.
- Pushing Me Away - Mike's vocal double sounds louder? "space invader" style percussion is MUCH quieter. Bass sounds a fair bit louder to me, too.
Overall... Master is louder, definitely limited more, but somehow clearer. Most differences can be put down to either compression (file / audio) and limiting. I have compared with a few other mixes of the album, and this is definitely the original album mix.
Meteora has almost no difference, but I am 99% sure this master is the same one that HDTracks used for their 24bit release of Meteora last year. Louder, limited. Less dynamic range. Session suffers the most with this, in my opinion.
The only differences I could here were...
Breaking The Habit:
"high pitched" noise could be heard on every bar. In this version, it is lowered a LOT, to the point where I can no longer hear it without listening on high quality headphones.
Lying From You:
"Space Invaders" sample is slightly lower