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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Motown Goes Karaoke |
| Date | Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:43:09 -0500 |
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I have been having a lot of fun the last two days listening to the 6-CD
"Motown
Original
Artist Karaoke Collector's Set" - these are made for "The Singing Machine"
and uses the original master tapes and not cheap re-recordings.
They play fine on regular CD players, except theres a strange 15 second gap
before each song starts (proably for artist/title info on the screen)
Each CD has 6 songs with two remixes: a "split-track" mix with the
instrumental track on the left and the vocal track on the right, and the
other a complete stereo mix without the lead vocal. The sound quality
is amazing - right from the multi-tracks and so much better than the
super-compressed final mixes.
On the split-track mixes you can hear the vocalists moving
around, feet tapping, shuffling papers, licking lips - edits, stuff that was
buried in the
final mix. You can hear they really WORKED hard to make these records great.
And its fun to synch up 3-track stereo mixes with these mixes. I put
together a WIDE stereo mix of the "Velevettes "He Was Really Sayin'
Somethin'" (which I dont think has ever been issued in true stereo!) and I
hope
to synch-up a true stereo mix of Martha Reeves "Jimmy Mack" if I can digitally
re-create the original EQ, compresion and "bathroom reverb" settings
(right now it sounds too flat).
This is as close as a "Motown Sessions" box as we're going to get, I
hope the Singing Machine company releases more of them in the future. BTW it's
cheaper getting the 6-CD set instead of buying them separately.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001FZG94/qid%3D1076357652/sr%3D11-1
/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-6039656-7255320
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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