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Derek: I used to love drawing and it took a few days to draw that album cover after I bought the album when it was first released. I bet my mom has it stored away in a trunk at their house with the rest of my drawings. And a good album to boot. How does the pre-recorded cassette sound?
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Wasn't the greatest sounding, either recorded too fast at the end of a duplication run or was played in a magnetized deck. I still enjoyed the album. George donated that pioneer CT-330 deck to me, was very nice of him. I had it restored with some belts within hours of receiving it. I used to use the same model deck at my uncles when I was 6 years old, it was top of the line then and the first serious deck I experienced.
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Greetings Daren! 
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.
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.
Man I remember Vapor Trails too when it first came out. BIG disappointment! Sounded like total shit to me. I'll have to go seeking for this one... thanks!