Re: Sound quality / Peter Gabriel's "Us"

[davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)]

Tomas Uribe (uribe@xenon.stanford.edu) wrote:

> Apparently "Us" was recorded using some novel technique or another,
> but IMHO the sound is noticeably inferior to that of, say, "So" or
> "Security" (which came out 10 years before!) --- just as that of
> TSW compared to HOL or TD ...
> 
> Am I going deaf, or is this true???

well it's not just you, the first time I listened to US I thought
'this sounds a particularly flat sounding mix'. I don't know whether
it was intentional or not, but it takes large doses of eq to brighten
it up to what I'd consider ok

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