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Post by petea on May 8, 2019 9:05:35 GMT
I'm sure like me there are some albums that you really love, but that have something in them / about them that is slightly irritating. One recent album that falls into that category for me is "The Ash and the Clay" by The Milk Carton Kids. Fantastic songs, great playing and super voice harmonies. However, if you have ever seen them performing, even if only on YouTube, you will know what Kenneth's guitar work sounds like. Now on the album in many places the engineer has placed Kenneth's voice slightly to to the right of centre but, rather irritatingly, his guitar is slightly to the left of Joey's. It is not glaring, but when you know where they should be it is slightly irritating: or is it just me?!
Do you have any similar examples?
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Post by MartinT on May 8, 2019 10:42:39 GMT
Not exactly like your example, but I saw the Clarke Tracey Quartet back in the late 1980s (at the long closed Bass Clef) and they were mesmerising as a live act. They later became the Clarke Tracey Quintet. This gives as good as any an idea of their performance. It's not a subgenre of jazz that I normally like, but they do it so well.
I bought Suddenly Last Tuesday on vinyl, their only album at the time. It's well enough recorded, but captures nothing of their live feel. As dry as a biscuit, lifeless, no soul and not something I ever want to play again.
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Post by petea on May 8, 2019 12:03:15 GMT
I had a similar experience (although 'live' as in a video) with Andrew Bird. The Tiny Desk performance is fabulous, but the album that the songs are taken from is just plain dull I think.
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Post by Pinch on May 8, 2019 13:33:03 GMT
A big one for me on The Doors first album. Light My Fire is mastered at the incorrect speed (3.5% slow), which was not discovered until 2006. This has been corrected on some recent reissues, but it's slow on my preferred vinyl version. And after hearing it at the correct speed (alongside various live takes), the slow version just sounds off to me.
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Post by MartinT on May 8, 2019 15:53:59 GMT
There was something similar with Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, I seem to remember.
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Post by MartinT on May 8, 2019 15:56:44 GMT
The version of Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman on Qobuz appears to be mastered from a dodgy tape or player. There are a couple of subtle pitch variations which are annoying now I know they are there.
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Post by petea on May 8, 2019 16:06:36 GMT
"Abraxis" by Santana was accidentally released with the channels reversed and apparently this only came to light when the MOFI 180g pressing was made from the masters a coupe of years ago. I have my original copy and this re-master and I think I prefer the back to front version!
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Post by Pinch on May 8, 2019 16:29:42 GMT
There was something similar with Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, I seem to remember. Yes, the tracks which make up side A were recorded a little slow. I don't know to what extent the recorder was off, but I can't say I notice it listening to these tracks, whereas the pitch on Light My Fire had always sounded a bit odd to me. |
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Post by MartinT on May 8, 2019 16:37:47 GMT
"Abraxis" by Santana was accidentally released with the channels reversed and apparently this only came to light when the MOFI 180g pressing was made from the masters a coupe of years ago. Listening to the Qobuz 24/88 stream now and you're right, it's been reversed back and sounds a little odd. |
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