Synthesizer Patel

this whole thing about it all being subjective, there is also the other thing about how some people have better or worse hearing than others. now, i'm not saying my hearing is better - it might be worse, so that i am missing the quality in the production - but, that very fact means it's possible for someone to say the production is bad or good, beyond the idea that they are being subjective. it only becomes subjective if everyone has the same ability to hear, and also play the music through the same equipment. these factors should be mentioned long before subjectivity comes into play.

Yeah, but I think if you're a good producer you should be able to work in most environments, though. It's not even that I wanted the new one to sound like AGIB - that sound worked for that album, it's just I didn't want it to sound it does.

yeah, i'm forgetting they recorded it in new zealand, so maybe that's why i don't like the sound of it.

I said, the acoustic guitar sounds bad - it sounds like it's been recorded through a pick-up, so it sounds like that horrible cross between an electric and acoustic guitar, the piano sounds like a keyboard and the drums are compressed - it just sounds poorly put together, nothing blends - oh, and there is next to no bass. As for Summerteeth, whilst I don't like that production and think it sounds dated now, at least it was interesting and original at the time. An effort was made. I can't see that here. My production tastes vary massively. I'm calling it poorly produced because I think t

I am sure they noticed it - I'm just surprised they thought it sounded good, especially based on their past efforts. As I've said, the mastering is just the final mistake - and it was probably necessary because of the bad production. I said it the first day it leaked - the acoustic guitars sound bad, and the piano sounds like a keyboard, and probably is a keyboard, and the drums are compressed to a silly degree. I'd be really surprised if the vinyl sounds that much better.

Does the mp3 version from itunes sound the same as the CD, or does that sound different too? I also kind of added to the conversation - that being the idea that the mastering is shit because the production is shit. The mastering of it is like putting a lot of cover-up on a spot - not ideal, everyone can still tell you've got a spot if they look closely, and not something you'd like to admit to in an interview. I've personally never heard a well produced album that's simply been mastered badly - resulting in it sounding bad. I can do a test if you wish, and boost the levels of AGIB and make it

This mastering and mixing, and general production issue with Wilco i think is one of the biggest let downs in the last 2 Wilco album. I personally think this last album sounds like it's been produced someone who doesn't really know what they are doing. So it's badly produced - and as a result they needed to give it some "magic" to try and bring it's rotting corpse to life - resulting in a poor mastering job. To be honest I've not heard the cd or vinyl because I've only got a certain amount of money to spend on music each month, and this last album doesn't warrant me wasting it on it. But, I'm

downloading the mix now, but i wanted to ask - how in the hell do you know about Synthesizer Patel? i wonder if he ever found out how to copy the sound of a basoon? have you ever seen - which is how music will sound in 2000

i'd made this mix for my mix-partner, but he chose the baroque pop one instead of this. but, i thought, rather than waste it, i'll uploaded it too. summer means: southern soul 01 It's Been A Change - Solomon Burke 02 What's So Wrong With You Loving Me - Irma Thomas 03 Mumble In My Ear - Marcell Strong 04 Sock It To Me Baby - James Carr 05 Love's Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (Part 1) - Chuck Brooks 06 He's Gone - Doris Duke 07 Things Get Better - Eddie Floyd 08 Do What You Gotta Do - Clarence Carter 09 I Git A Little Lonely - Little Richard 10 Now That I'm Gone (When Are You Leaving) - Sa

They are both dead to me now. The only difference is that I used to like one of them.

The Beach Boys Big Busted Barry & The Bum-Bum Boys Fruity Goes M' Walkman Eco & His Lucky Hen Twist, Clout & Shout It Out The Banana Splits Moby Grape Sir Tanlinot & The Go-on-then Bros. Rocket From The Crypt

i think if you go to properties, and then click advanced you can renumber them and rename them there.

cheers, i've just downloaded that exact suggestion - dear y'all. on amazon there are 3 volumes of that hinton set. listening to dear y'all right now actually. yeah - i love bobby charles, i'm pretty sure mthomp has heard him too - i've probably sent him a song or two in the past.

did you know that they've released two new albums of Jim Ford music - one called Big Mouth USA: The Unissued Paramount Album, and another called The Unissued Capitol Album. Now I don't know if there is a lot of cross-over with the takes they used, but some of the songs are the same, and they also seem to match some stuff from Point Of No Return, but I just thought I'd mention it. by the way, thanks for the mix - i've now discovered eddie hinton now, and i'm searching for a bunch of his albums. got any idea which are the best - i generally tend to like proper albums rather than comps, but it'

Jim Ford wrote Ju Ju Man and Niki Hoeke Speedway - from Silver Pistol. Get yourself a copy of this It's amazingly good.

cool. hurry up and upload it. have you heard jim ford yet? seeing as you like Ju Ju Man. i might just stick my southern soul mix i'd made recently in here anyway for anyone to download.

if i had a cat, and didn't hate cats, i'd call it Sankha Guha (pronounced Shon-kar Goo Ha). it's a good name for a cat, or a travel reporter.

I'm really glad you like it. That Bert Jansch song comes from one of 3 recently re-released albums from the 1970s. LA Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon (which is what that track's from) and A Rare Conundrum. Whilst LA Turnaround is concidered the 'lost classic', I personally think A Rare Conundrum is better - I had all of these on crap mp3, from vinyl, versions and it's now great to have them in good quality. If you like 1-4 of Scott Walker's albums, see if you can pick up Til The Band Comes In - it was once really hard to find on cd, but they re-released that recently too. Maybe not as gr

well that's not really true. you can remaster something and make instruments louder or softer in the mix, it has nothing to do with remixing. you can do this because you can work on isolated frequencies without touching the other frequencies - ie. bass is low, so you can boost different parts of the bass frequency which don't even register within the range of the guitars, for example - so that the bass becomes louder and yet the guitars remain at the same volume. remixing can be about moving the panning of the tracks, removing or adding instruments etc.... which is very different. as for the

ok, i've found some more info on the version i've got. it was, as i thought, made by Garth Hudson - it's the 'safety master' he made in 1968, it is True Stereo as i stated before, and it was found in Neil Youngs archives. here's the info. safety tapes and here's an mp3 showing the difference between the released version and the safety version of Wheels On Fire that might be a bodge-up in my version, or on all of them when they copied it from the tapes to digital - i don't know. it's not on any of the other tracks.

here's million dollar bash: http://ifile.it/i6adhe8 (download it by clicking on the "request ticket" thing at the top, and then "download"). see what you think. i think it's like an entirely new song. oh, it has 2 slight digital clicks at the start - but this is the only track it does it on.

ok - give me a sec. they are huge files because they are uncompressed. if people really love it and want it all, i'll upload it for them - but not right now. now you get 1 track!

no, apparently it's from the master tapes Garth Hudson has. it's in acc mp4 (edit m4a sorry) format, but i could upload people a song if they want - it really is entirely different from all those other bootlegs. i imagine it actually surfaced when they were getting a good version of I'm Not There for the film soundtrack. anyway, it's not a remix or anything and if i could remember the title of the bloody thing (cos it's not on the track info) i'd be able to find a little more from google. anyone wanna hear a track? it's amazing sounding.

there is a more recent version with 23 tracks which sounds amazing. can't remember what it is called though. someone (can't remember who - although it was a female, i remember that) sent me a link to it a while back. dylan's voice is right up front and clear, it is warm and there is bass, the organ sounds great and everything is clean, clear, and uncompressed and it's in proper stereo - as it was recorded. that's what you really want to hear, although Tree With Roots etc... obviously has all the songs.