BOC: Some Remastered Evening & spectres news.

[Albert Bouchard]

The sound was not deliberately dark but we did have some major  
problems in the mixing room. It was a new fancy space in the New York  
Record Plant with and pyramid skylight that played havoc with the  
sound. Agents was mixed in studio C and was much easier IMHO. We  
ended up redoing several mixes with disappointing results. Also  
having a whole bunch of different engineers also didn't help getting  
a consistent sound. I find the remaster to be vastly superior to the  
vinyl. Nosferatu was ruined by inner groove distortion on most record  
players.
Al
On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Stephen Swann wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:51:24PM -0500, blackblade at BHALLIGAN.COM  
> wrote:
>> So what does everyone think of the remasters? I really enjoyed the  
>> DVD with
>> Some Enchanted Evening, even though the video and sound were not  
>> exactly
>> HD quality. The concert itself was much better than the show on  
>> the Live
>> 1976 video. I just wish I could've experiened the laser show in  
>> person.
>
> I haven't had a chance to listen to SEE yet, but the
> remaster of Spectres is a little bit of a disappointment to
> me, since I was expecting something that sounded markedly
> different than the original (most specifically, I think I
> was expecting much more boost in the high end).  I think
> what it shows is that the sound of the album that we're
> familiar with must be inherent in master tapes, not laxity
> in the original CD mastering.  I only owned the vinyl
> briefly, since I was already almost exclusively buying CDs
> by the time I got heavily into BOC, so I can't make any kind
> of reasonable comparison there...
>
> Al, was sound of Spectres deliberately kept dark/muted?
>
> Steve
>