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From: RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Much appreciated Spidey mate. Read inside.
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 22:15:51 -0700
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On 5/11/2016 6:31 PM, Spidey wrote:
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> I have always found the Time/Life work to be very high quality. When
> record companies produce compilations, they usually go to great
> lengths to obtain access to the original master tapes, and I never met
> an audio engineer that didn't think that he could do a better mixing
> job than was done originally. So, there is a strong temptation to
> "fix" things in the re-mix. However, this produces a fundamentally
> different product, which is not what we buy compilations for. The most
> common sin is adding reverb where there originally wasn't any. Drives
> me nuts!
Did catch them once in a screw-up...I had the cassette version of Sounds
of the Seventies, and their software or whatever it was had picked up
the complete stop in the middle of Elton John's "Take Me to the Pilot"
and identified it as the end of a track, inserting extra space into the
tape to make the padding consistent....r
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