BOC: A "dizzying excursion into Pearlman's world"

[Stephen Swann]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>
> Weird studio and mastering problems aside, the stuff sounds much cleaner
> and fuller from _AoF_ on, at least to my ears.  I mean, even today
> _FoOU_ sounds really quite good -- sure, crispy and radio-friendly, but
> good.  I think I'll go listen to "Vengeance" now, actually ...

Try listening to _FoUO_ on a really good stereo sometime.
It's nicely clear and balanced, but it's compressed all to
hell and gone (if I was going to go way out on a limb of
guesswork, I'd say its sound was probably deliberately
smashed down to make it sound good on FM radio, which it
does).  I really wish someone could go back and undo that
particular part of the mastering process...

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