HW: Re: Voiceprint

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 13 Dec 2009, at 09:46 , Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> 	I never saw the post that this one seems to be replying to, but I feel both sides of it, having just recently bought the Reading 1992 2CD. Actually a lot of my annoyance here was caused by Amazon, who had it described as an Atomhenge release, which made me think it would be soundboard and decently done. Actually, of course, it's Voiceprint, it's off what sounds like audience tape albeit with very little audience noise, it's about as good as I remember the tape of that show being but no better, and the tracklisting doesn't match the actual CD press. So, a fairly typical Voiceprint job, which I probably wouldn't have bought if it had been properly described. That would have been a pity, as it was still an excellent show and the recording doesn't lose that, but all the same, argh. They will keep doing three-quarters of a good job.

Releasing an audience-quality recording without any mention of those limitations and with the wrong track list is "three-quarters of a good job"?  Heaven forbid we should get any releases that are even "half of a good job" then! And I shudder to think of what "one-quarter of a good job" might look like .... an unlabeled CDRW of tape noise? ;)  I am not sure we need to be so generous with descriptions of what might constitute a "good job" ....

Cheers,
Carl

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