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This has been something that has been pissing me off for the last few years.  Modern recording studios are recording at louder volumes thus making the music sound muddy as ****.  Even underground labels are doing this ****.  I think this may be the reason for the resurgence of vinyl within the last few years, even though a lot of the vinyl out there is not cut from master tapes, but cut from the digital format.  Wtf is happening?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

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I don't know much about recording gear and/or studio technology aside from how poorly or passable something sounds yet I will say that I do think that a lot of what you are ranting about most likely stems from the fact that recording studios and technology has gotten far too advanced and convenient for its own good. I mean, it just says A LOT when people, even youngsters are salivating over good ol' vinyl records and prefer them by far over CDs. That said, I do predict over all that "regression" is going to become the next big trend in popular music, as if the **** 60s and 70s never existed, right?

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Record companies are not making enough CD sales either, which could be part of the reason.  I dunno man, this whole thing stemmed from watching a documentary on the record industry and I was pissed, lol.

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I understand and honestly the only thing I can add here is that the music industry as we know it is pretty much already ****. I mean, I think it says something when most contemporary music these days is composed solely with studio trickery like auto tune, synthesized beats and keyboards (not to mention elementary school level lyrics to boot) when over 30 years ago people like Billy Joel, Elton John, the Beatles, etc., etc. were able to break the charts by writing, composing their own music, utilizing real instruments I might further add. Granted this might be further away from what your initial argument is about and I apologize but I figured I'd add something just to keep this thread going for ya, lol.. besides a little music industry discussion might stir things up a bit hopefully.

However, I think at some point we might experience a trend of people going all 'retro' where we might start seeing more and more artists opt for the 70's era way of doing things 'cause at some point I imagine that a whole generation of listeners are going to be burnt out on the whole Justin Bieber, Rebecca Black, Lady Gaga clones out there. I mean, there's only so much you can bombard audiences with before they grow tired of that sorta ****. Yeah, you'll always have dumb people listening to dumb music but sooner or later I think even the younger generations are gonna feel like they are being way too patronized to accept this garbage. In fact, I've been seeing it even now where like some 16, 17 year olds are now discovering their Dads'  Pink Floyd and David Bowie LPs and have not looked back since then. And who knows, a lot of these kids might even be influenced to become musicians later on in life and be influenced by those artists. So.. maybe there's still hope left.

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That shouldn't really be done while recording, maybe in the post mix, but generally what this does by doing it in the original recording, you then have to compress via compressors which makes it even sound more like ****, you loose the punch and crispiness of the snare, cymbals and a lot of good ****,

also if that was not enough the amps these days sound like crap, the trend started in the 90s with grunge, most the amp manufacturers wanted that sound, which was ****, after grunge died the sum bitches did not revert to the old schematics, that **** pissed me off too