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| From | "Frank Padellaro" <kingradio@pumpingstation.com> |
| Subject | Re: Let it be. busted |
| Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:44:12 -0600 |
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Sorry Mark. I work as a salesman selling studio quality monitors and recording equipment. I have a recording and mastering studio in my house, where I auditioned the recordings. The cymbals are hashy, and sound to me like cymbals sound when they are over-compressed and then compressed again in mastering. My biggest beef, as outlined in the original post, is the use of Antares Auto-Tune on the vocals. It is especially audible at points and it really bothers me. I had no problem with the little bit of out of tuneness of the original recording. I wish they hadn't tried to fix it. To me the mixes sound lifeless and harsh. Even though there is a lot to be desired from some of the Glynn Johns' mixes as far as the quality of the mastering, I far prefer that version of "naked" without auto-tune, bad digital reverb and lousy over-limited cymbals.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu>
Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:27:46 -0500
>>From: "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca>
>>We must have gotten two different versions of the CD...mine is a HUGE
>>improvement over the previous release and boots..
>
>I would be curious how you 2 listen to the CD. I.e., with speakers,
>good headphones, or portable CD headphones? The difference in
>listening experience has to be different. Considering that many
>people listen to music like I do, which is to do so using a portable
>CD player, with your basic inexpensive headphones, I've often
>wondered if producers test how their mix will sound with a portable,
>especially when new digital techniques are used to try and increase
>the quality of older recordings. It might make the music sound
>brighter, but at the same time, you lose the some of the smoothness
>of the original analog recordings. This is especially true of the
>drum and cymbal sound, which Frank complained of. If you listen to
>music with portable CD headphones, the music is right up on your
>ears, and something like overloud or annoying drum or cymbal sounds
>might be more noticable than if you listened with speakers (and
>especially since portable CD players have no controls that allow you
>to correct the sound, except for "extra bass" and "lots of extra
>bass")
>
>P.s. if you have the time, in some cases, you can correct the problem
>with the cymbals by applying a high pass (or notch) filter. The
>drums is another story. I've actually taken the time to use audio
>editing software to manually smooth out the start of each drum hit.
>Although you have to be crazy like myself to spend the amount of time
>necessarily to do this, without being paid for it!
>
>
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