Future Games - Page 3

johnny4406 · #31 09-23-2005, 11:08 AM

Future Games just sounds really low quality...does this have anything to do with the master tapes passing through the magnetic x-ray thingy in the airport as fleetwood mac was coming to america from england...or do I have my stories mixed up? (or albums!)

Future Games ... the vocals are too low and blurry, compared to the instruments. WEIRD

SteveMacD · #32 09-23-2005, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by johnny4406

Future Games just sounds really low quality...does this have anything to do with the master tapes passing through the magnetic x-ray thingy in the airport as fleetwood mac was coming to america from england...or do I have my stories mixed up? (or albums!)

Yeah, that was "Bare Trees." Same line-up, though.

johnny4406 · #33 09-23-2005, 11:38 AM

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Yeah, that was "Bare Trees." Same line-up, though.

and what ended up happening? the tapes werent destroyed? or did they re-record?

I LOVE Bare Trees!

chiliD · #34 09-23-2005, 12:11 PM

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and what ended up happening? the tapes werent destroyed? or did they re-record?

I LOVE Bare Trees!

The tapes that got demagnatized where the final two-track masters...they had to remix the album from the multi-track masters. So, it's intriguing to wonder how much of a difference in the mixes between what the original mix was and the remixed version that we finally heard was.

johnny4406 · #35 09-23-2005, 01:36 PM

Since we're on the topic of future games

I like the album version of lay it all down
but the quality again sucks

I prefer the box set alternate

duracell · #36 09-23-2005, 05:42 PM

Isn't the problem with the British vinyl version is that it was one of the longest recordings and therefore has a low dynamic level just to make it fit; which does make it have a relative low bass and higher mid-range. Martin Birch was a good engineer so you would think there has to be a great remastered version to come out some time.

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I think that's a good way to describe Then Play On, Steve. It is a different-sounding production, for sure (no doubt due to the band producing themselves). I think it lacks crispness, especially the bass which I find very indistinct. It's always struck me as somewhat artificial, for lack of a better word - the sound just doesn't integrate very well to my ears. That being said, I don't so much dislike it as I feel it could be better.

But it's nowhere near as bad as Future Games - I recall that when I first bought the LP, it sounded so muddy I thought I must have gotten a bad copy and exchanged it for another one - but of course that one wasn't any better!

DavidMn · #37 09-24-2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

The tapes that got demagnatized where the final two-track masters...they had to remix the album from the multi-track masters. So, it's intriguing to wonder how much of a difference in the mixes between what the original mix was and the remixed version that we finally heard was.

I got a headache reading that, but I think I get it.