A friend lent this to me. I haven't heard ANY other CD by Traffic, but after a couple of good listens, I have a feeling it's got some upper frequency boosts. I think part of it has to be the way it was engineered, but going by Steve Hoffman's methods of listening and mastering - listen to the voice, tonality of instruments in real life, etc. - it sounds a bit hard, strident, and has a whole lot of "air" on top.
The mastering engineer is Tom Ruff, and it sounds like the same problem all recent Universal-MCA-Island-Interscope remasters have, many of which are done by Labson and Reeves.
Not so bad on the first track, "Paper Sun," which sounds like a lo-fi recording, but listen to "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "Feelin' Alright" and use CoolEdit to tone down the 6k, 10k, 16k regions.
Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic
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"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD