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To lazy to post and image, still drinking my first coffee of the morning but I have a 1971 UK copy of Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn spinning now. Sounds as good now as it did when I first heard it for the first time in the mid 70s
 
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Vapor Trails Remixed

I'm speechless on this remixed presentation.
They could have easily called it 'Un-crushed, De-Muddled'.

If you found VT completely mastered in FAIL mode back in the day like I did, you will be shocked what came out in the remix.
VT defined the worst of what the "Loudness War" was all about over ten years ago.
They completed eliminated it from this recording!
Only one word - - Wow!

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Every Rush fan should give this one a serious listen..
 
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BlazeES said:
I'm speechless on this remixed presentation.
They could have easily called it 'Un-crushed, De-Muddled'.

If you found VT completely mastered in FAIL mode back in the day like I did, you will be shocked what came out in the remix.
VT defined the worst of what the "Loudness War" was all about over ten years ago.
They completed eliminated it from this recording!
Only one word - - Wow!

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Every Rush fan should give this one a serious listen..
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Hi Tony,

I hope we see more albums being remixed to acceptable listening standards. I have way too many CDs that are victims of the Loudness Wars.

I recently compared an old copy of Kill City by Iggy Pop & James Williamson with the restored edition and the difference is incredible.
 
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Uncle Sam - Heaven or Hollywood. Pretty good hardrock lp, this is the rarer "muff" cover version, decided I'd better not post the cover


 
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Dazen1 said:
Hi Tony,

I hope we see more albums being remixed to acceptable listening standards. I have way too many CDs that are victims of the Loudness Wars.

I recently compared an old copy of Kill City by Iggy Pop & James Williamson with the restored edition and the difference is incredible.
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Greetings Daren! :p

I agree.

Personally I can live with a little bit of loudness push because I get what the engineers are trying to accomplish with that but some albums are just way over the top.
With rock music, I find that it's been part of the deal for a few decades, and there are ways to compensate for it on the listening end. But with this particular Rush
album, it was beyond comprehension because it was so bad. As many a Rush fan will know, they've had a certain adherence to well engineered sound quality over the years and it
can probably be characterized as an essential aspect to their artistic genius - or at least their artistic goal - album to album. Vapor Trails (originally) had a
pseudo grunge presentation in its cranked character and one could have easily thought, well, that's what they wanted this time around. Admittedly though,
the band has explained it actually wasn't what they wanted and hence why they endeavored to redo the project. When you hear all the detail, the expansion and the layers of the remix,
nearly every song takes on a whole new life. I'm totally serious when I say that to my ears, the original VT sounds like it was recorded in a walk-in closet and the remix
sounds like it recorded in Abbey Road studios, with someone like Alan Parsons on the mix board. Since it's original release, I only liked a total of 4 tracks off the album and even then, I
found myself always cringing from the sibilance and crush. Today I find myself liking damn near the entire album because again, a big chunk of the songs sound completely different.
I'm a firm believer now that remastering can be good but a proper REMIX - artist sanctioned - is where it's at.

I'm sure many of us in the audiosphere have at least an album or two
we'd like to see get the Royal Remix treatment...and for me, albeit a long time coming, Vapor Trails delivers on that wish.
 
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I can tell when I am recording from source material, consisting of vinyl and CD onto MiniDisc, that quite often the CD sources have a constrained range in output level from lowest to highest peak levels, usually within 6dBs. Easy stuff to keep in line without oversaturating onto cassette tape when I make dubs from MD onto tape. But vinyl, is most times, harder to keep levels in check with a big swing in range from lowest to highest output levels.

Tony: Good to hear the remixed version of "Vapour Trails" doing that album justice.

Nando.
 
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Without a doubt Nando!
Taping from vinyl sources takes much more patience and skill.

Elite-ist said:
I can tell when I am recording from source material, consisting of vinyl and CD onto MiniDisc, that quite often the CD sources have a constrained range in output level from lowest to highest peak levels, usually within 6dBs. Easy stuff to keep in line without oversaturating onto cassette tape when I make dubs from MD onto tape. But vinyl, is most times, harder to keep levels in check with a big swing in range from lowest to highest output levels.

Tony: Good to hear the remixed version of "Vapour Trails" doing that album justice.

Nando.
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You're right and it's so rewarding, nothing sounds like vinyl to tape direct recording stuff :thumbright:
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Without a doubt Dracula.

Finding the right combo of vinyl material that compliments each other is a wonderful thing when recorded with care...and so rewarding when warmed up on tape in its completed form. :p
 
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Earlier:

The Steve Howe Album - Thorens TD 160 Super to PC 24/96



Now:

Nazareth - Close enough for Rock 'n' Roll - Thorens TD 160 Super to Cassette JVC TD-V661 (Sony Metal XR)/VHS Hi-Fi/PC 24/96




 
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Nazareth - No Mean City - Thorens TD 160 Super to Cassette JVC TD-V661 (TDK D90 Dolby B)/VHS Hi-Fi/PC 24/96




 
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