HW: RE: calvert question

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:57:56 -0400, Stephan Forstner <stemfors at PIPELINE.COM>
wrote:
>Are you sure about this? The Hype versions definitely sound way better, but
>I think thats just the difference between a professional mastering job from
>master tapes vs. copying tracks onto a CD from old scratchy vinyl. I've
>spent an hour listening to these tracks back-to-back and side-by-side, and
>it's not just the rhythm that's the same, the vocal tracks are the same
too,
>and I can't pinpoint any synth swoosh or burble that doesn't appear on both
>the Connection and the Hype versions - could you point me at some of the
>differences you hear? Help! What am I missing!?

Hi Stephan,

Upon further listening of the HC version (been too lazy to pull out
the 'Hype' vinyl for a strict A/B, so you're better-informed than I
anyway ... it's a great album that I *really* need to pick up on CD), I
think that you're correct and I was wrong.  Sorry that my first impression
wound up being misleading.  Seems kind of pointless to include the exact
same versions on a boot, but there are far more glaring incosistencies on
the "official" releases!

>P.S. Any word on when we can expect the next Lexicon Devil F/i reissues?

No idea yet.  Brian Wensing says that he's been remastering all the old
albums for those, so I hope it's soon.  I haven't communicated with Dave of
Lexicon Devil recently, so I don't know what he's up to ...

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com