The whole production is horribly compressed on that album. Just completely brick walled and zero dynamic range. The same can mostly be said for and Bon Jovi album after Crush so it's not just a John Shanks thing.

There have been several topics regarding the loudness war (which is what WAN and most CD's from the last 15 years suffer from) but the mixing of this album in particular was discussed not long ago...

http://www.drycounty.com/jovitalk/sh...light=Loudness