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Dropouts: Stairway To Heaven: 5.28 - left channel drops out briefly Good call! There is a high-frequncy (5 kHz on up) 'dropout' readily visible in the left channel at 5:28:06 , using spectral view. For a moment there I thought you were looking at something else - my post says it is on the left, whi...

Hmm ... given the often flaky stereo imaging of the old disc, with one channel being brighter than the other in many places, that gives them a lot of work to do in remastering.

Why would the original have all these defects? It really sounds to me like a lot of head clogging is going on...

Either that, or it's me ... I'm the only one that can hear Keith Moon laughing on the "Who Collection" mix of WGFA. Must be me :) Surely any true dropout is visible on the waveform? Maybe what I class as a drop out is better refered to as "tape defect". You never lose the sound altogether, but leve...

Either that, or it's me ... I'm the only one that can hear Keith Moon laughing on the "Who Collection" mix of WGFA.

Must be me

Andreas sent me the first minute of WTLB: After the channels were swapped, I discovered that there was a one sample offset between the two channels. I brought the right hand channel forward by one sample on my disc. After doing this, with the exception of 3 errors, everything else was identical. I g...

Channels are REVERSED on my LZ IV disc, harmonica on right channel in "When The Levee Breaks", etc ... RSA pressing, black text on plain silver face. 250008 underneath the Atlantic logo, 756781528-2 on the inner ring. Dropouts: Rock And Roll: 1.04 Left channel dips, slowly recovers at the 1.11/1.12 ...

Wow - it's amazing what you can do with multiple phase inversions, and mid/side processing. What a crazy stereo mix for this song on "Something Else". Ugh... brief description if you haven't heard it: Backing track and main vocal on the left Reverb of the above on the right Tambourine and LOUD backi...

My thoughts: Vocals start off much louder. Why was it usually the case that the vocals would be pulled down in the stereo of a forthcoming A-side ? Days and Wonderboy spring to mind. Sound effects are louder in the spoken section - they start sooner aswell, with stuff not on the stereo. The piano is...

I found the 7" of this today - seen as the tape of the mono mix appears to be missing, I was curious enough to grab it. For those that haven't heard it: http://website.lineone.net/~philelio/kinks/apeman_MONO.mp3 The b-side "Rats" is great aswell: http://website.lineone.net/~philelio/kinks/rats.mp3 T...

I find I and II to be a little blues heavy, which doesn't do a great deal for me. III has always been my favourite though.

Andreas sent me snippets of his LZIII disc - and it's the same as mine after all. In casual listening, at least to my ears, track 8 fades out, although there is a lurch in the fade 1 second from the end. But, if you crank it up loud, what Andreas says is pretty much correct. The song is still going ...

It's been a while since I quit selling these, but the place I worked for was building AMD systems for musicians, using ASUS boards, with either a SIS chipset (these used to be flaky but are now generally recommended by high-end soundcard manufacturers - cheap too), or an NVidia NForce chipset. The N...

Of course, that unpleasant treble-heavy sound could be because of the dolby theory that Phil stated. I don't know. A quick acid test for you, using two songs (I should have posted this before - sorry). Immigrant Song: compare the two instances where there is a pause, after he sings (according to th...

Is So Sad About Us different from the stereo Astley version? I ask because I can't get past the soggy drum sound on there, nor the cold ending from the vocals - both are in contrast to the mono mix.

I generally prefer AQO in stereo otherwise ...

http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt ... d=760a0f09

That entry of freedb, at least, says 9 tracks is correct. So not only does the audio correspond with an older release, the indexes do aswell. But not the packaging.