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Hi everyone

I was wondering if any of you 'd had any luck in taming that nasty, nasal EQ that Essential imparted on the 1998 mono Something Else.

I've got both that one and the 'old' Reprise CD (the one with the chewed up left channel on David Watts), and I like the tonality of the Reprise just fine. Has anyone been able to EQ the Essential disc to sound even remotely close to it? How much did you cut/boost and at which frequencies? I'm not too good at EQ myself.

(I know there are still other nasties on the Essential- NR, compression, etc. But the one that bothers me the most is the 'football stadium PA' EQ).

Thanks

The Kinks' PRT albums have that really bad home-made EQ. It's really the later albums that have it, but Something Else is by far the worse, it sounds REALLY tinny in any form. Even the bootlegged outtakes have it because it's built into the recording.

I think I did something like -5 db at 16k, -4 db at 8k, -3 at 6k, -2 at 4k when I made a copy for my car. That's the 1998 remaster, so some of the EQ may have been in response to Heyworth's own added EQ moves. Heyworth also used a Trident EQ console, which is a really crappy solid-state console that really sounds like bad solid-state - hard and cold. That's what Toby Mountain used for the Bowie CD's he did for Rykodisc. You should probably fiddle around with some more but basically start tapering it from the top down.