On 2015-11-09 15:24:56 +0000, philw said:
> I finally had a chance to listen to "On the Border" and "One of These
> Nights" in a full surround setting this past weekend. They certainly
> sound like studio quad mixes, with discrete information in the back
> channels. Several of the songs have the vocals washed out wide to all
> four channels. These songs are the ones with Randy Meisner singing the
> lead vocals. The songs with Glenn Frey or Don Henley on lead vocals
> sound just fine, with the lead voice present mainly in the front
> channels and centered between them. Meisner had the weakest voice of
> the 3, so it's entirely possible that super producer Bill Szymczyk
> mixed those songs to deliberately hide his voice. The backing vocals
> on those tracks sound OK. It's also possible that they sound a little
> better on truly balanced quad systems, with all four speakers being
> equal size.
> One of the fun parts about collecting & listening to these quad albums
> is hearing different mixes of songs you've heard for decades. For
> albums created in the early 70's, there were often different versions
> created for stereo and quad, with the band and/or their producer being
> directly involved. This is why the quad versions of Steely Dan records
> are so cool: there are different guitar parts used on some of the
> songs. The gold standard of this kind of deviation is "Nilsson
> Schmilsson", which has a very different mix of "Jump Into the Fire",
> among others. Those kinds of discoveries make dealing with completely
> inaccurate CUE files worth the effort.
> Regards,
> PhilW
Hi Phil, so sorry for the late reply, I didn't see your message. I'm
glad to know I wasn't botching it on my end :)
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