Sound Of Free on MiC

[petsite]

Does this sound to anyone else like it was dubbed from disc and not from a master tape. I hear alot of vinyl artifacts.

[Freddie French-Pounce]

The sound definitely didn't blow me away like I expected it too, though the whole box is very much in the treble zone.

[Micha]

I need to turn the treble ALL down actually when listening, but with that the sound is great.

[Peter Reum]

It is mastered off the Stateside UK Mono single master tape

[EgoHanger1966]

I hear it as tape all the way, sounds better than it ever has before, but listening in headphones....the EQing makes it seem like it's not in true mono. Might just be my ears, but one of the channels seems louder and has more treble than the other. Monoing out one of the channels makes it sound a lot better.

[DonnyL]

I hear it as tape all the way, sounds better than it ever has before, but listening in headphones....the EQing makes it seem like it's not in true mono. Might just be my ears, but one of the channels seems louder and has more treble than the other. Monoing out one of the channels makes it sound a lot better.

I haven't done any intensive listening or testing, but if it was cut from the mono master, it might have been played back on a two-track (stereo) deck, which would create subtle stereo artifacts.

For you computer audio types, you can split the stereo track into 2 mono tracks, reverse the phase on one, then combine them into one mono track to find out if this is the case.

To me, it sounds like a vinyl rip ... but apparently it's not. But the whole set seems to have some kind of analog-emulation (distortion) plug-in or something across the tracks.

[Amazing Larry]

There's some weird phase stuff going on, for sure.

[DonnyL]

There's some weird phase stuff going on, for sure.

a true mono (full-track) recording should be completely silent and 'disappear' when combined as above -- i.e., there is no stereo information at all; the two channels are identical.

Of course, the track might have been mixed 'mono' to 2-track stereo in the first place maybe. Or there was stereo processing on the new master.

[Amazing Larry]

When I OOPSed it, all that was left was excruciating treble.
 

[DonnyL]

When I OOPSed it, all that was left was excruciating treble.
 

... which means it was dubbed from a stereo source, or has 2-track processing. A full track tape would be totally silent when 'OOPS'-ed.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

Mark L uses some Slate Audio plugins in his Mixing/Mastering process. Maybe this is what yiu are hearing.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PveMm1yqo54&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPveMm1yqo54

[Amazing Larry]

Mark L uses some Slate Audio plugins in his Mixing/Mastering process. Maybe this is what yiu are hearing.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PveMm1yqo54&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPveMm1yqo54

Mark needs to jump back on the analog train.