Be Not Nobody was mixed during the "Loudness War" peak. Engineers were compressing the life out of CDs to make them louder on boomboxes. However, the master tapes contain subtle dynamics that only a FLAC rip can reveal. If you find a FLAC sourced from the original 2002 A&M Records CD pressing (not the later remasters), you are hearing the truest version of Vanessa Carlton’s vision.
Be Not Nobody was mixed during the "Loudness War" peak. Engineers were compressing the life out of CDs to make them louder on boomboxes. However, the master tapes contain subtle dynamics that only a FLAC rip can reveal. If you find a FLAC sourced from the original 2002 A&M Records CD pressing (not the later remasters), you are hearing the truest version of Vanessa Carlton’s vision.