Just listening in Sol Republic "Master Tracks" headphones, and the "before" guitars sound like the Circus Maximus sounds I listen to a lot in these, the after is missing something in the lows or something. The after is airy, but sounds like the noise you were referring to. I thought maybe you mislabeled them, but you were going for the drum sounds but the whole thing is different. So I listened again and the drums are better in the after, yeah. There was a boxy frequency going on or something, but the guitars were nice & thick too so put that back lol They guitars are really sounding great, I'm hoping to get those kind of sounds myself with a similar setup.