What Are you Listening to Right Now?

[Marky Dread]

This right now.

I won a £25 quid amazon for winning Employee of the Month (which is hilarious, considering I hate my job and any job) so I ordered this to join Highway 61 Revisited on vinyl. Just played the first side, sounded fucking fantastic. The Dylan obsession is in full bloom this month. Next stop: Blond on Blonde on LP.

Congrats on winning the voucher and your choice.

[Kory]

I'm going to be in a jazz mood for the rest of the week, so I'm starting inside with this, and will move further out until I pair my Sunday anxiety with, I dunno, Albert Ayler or something.

[revbob]

Probably my favorite album of their's at this point. I used to lean heavily to the first two which was my initial exposure but this is so good.

[Flex]

Kory and revbob both bringing the heat with major albums in the Flex Canon of Musical Greatness.

[Marky Dread]

1979...

[Wolter]

My mother played this album incessantly throughout my teenage years and I thought I hated it at the time but I bought my own copy within six months of moving out when I was 18.

[Flex]

My mother played this album incessantly throughout my teenage years and I thought I hated it at the time but I bought my own copy within six months of moving out when I was 18.

Patsy Cline was one of the best.

[Wolter]

My mother played this album incessantly throughout my teenage years and I thought I hated it at the time but I bought my own copy within six months of moving out when I was 18.

Patsy Cline was one of the best.

The production on the hits is such perfect Nashville pop.

[Flex]

The production on the hits is such perfect Nashville pop.

*touches nose... filled with cocaine and rhinestones*

[Wolter]

The production on the hits is such perfect Nashville pop.

*touches nose... filled with cocaine and rhinestones*

Oh yeah. That was like...the last episode. Heh.

[Flex]

Oh yeah. That was like...the last episode. Heh.

This is tangential, but that episode also accidentally explains why music dorks like me and marky and like the steve hoffman forum people will go on and on about dynamic range in mastering and why it's actually good and important.

[Marky Dread]

Oh yeah. That was like...the last episode. Heh.

This is tangential, but that episode also accidentally explains why music dorks like me and marky and like the steve hoffman forum people will go on and on about dynamic range in mastering and why it's actually good and important.

I presume you are talking about Marky Ramone.

The guys at the Steve Hoffman forum are nut jobs who belong in a music asylum.

"If it sounds good then it's right" - Marky Dread

Dynamic Range

Most of the early CD releases with quieter sound have way better dynamic range than that of their remastered counterparts. This is due to the horrible process of brickwalling where the range has been pushed to and above it's limits.

A classic example of this is Iggy's remaster of "Raw Power" where even Iggy says on the sleeve notes "everything is in the red". Well you really don't want the needle in the red just to make something louder. You get can get it louder and fuller sounding by using other techniques. So the original vinyl releases have a much better dynamic range than the remastered CDs.

It's why we get conned with a lot of remasters. Like the recent Joe comp "Assembly" you put in on and it immediately sounds different so you assume it's better. Well it isn't it's just louder.

The Sound System box was remastered by Tim Young who has been around in music a very long time and has a fantastic understanding and knowledge of how things should sound. He did a fantastic job on SS.

[Wolter]

This still smokes.

[Marky Dread]

This still smokes.

[WestwayKid]

Oh yeah. That was like...the last episode. Heh.

This is tangential, but that episode also accidentally explains why music dorks like me and marky and like the steve hoffman forum people will go on and on about dynamic range in mastering and why it's actually good and important.

I presume you are talking about Marky Ramone.

The guys at the Steve Hoffman forum are nut jobs who belong in a music asylum.

"If it sounds good then it's right" - Marky Dread

Dynamic Range

Most of the early CD releases with quieter sound have way better dynamic range than that of their remastered counterparts. This is due to the horrible process of brickwalling where the range has been pushed to and above it's limits.

A classic example of this is Iggy's remaster of "Raw Power" where even Iggy says on the sleeve notes "everything is in the red". Well you really don't want the needle in the red just to make something louder. You get can get it louder and fuller sounding by using other techniques. So the original vinyl releases have a much better dynamic range than the remastered CDs.

It's why we get conned with a lot of remasters. Like the recent Joe comp "Assembly" you put in on and it immediately sounds different so you assume it's better. Well it isn't it's just louder.

The Sound System box was remastered by Tim Young who has been around in music a very long time and has a fantastic understanding and knowledge of how things should sound. He did a fantastic job on SS.

Yes! I will admit to occasionally visiting when I want to geek out on the best mastering of Diamond Dogs or something, but they are pretty wacky and obsessed. Also a great point about getting conned by remasters. Newer is not always better. The Stones are a great example. The remasters put out by Universal back around 2008 are terrible, compressed messes. Sure, they're listenable, but a 1980's vintage CBS Sticky Fingers is going to sound a lot better because it isn't compressed...and you can pick those up in the used bin for $5.