--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Really. Far too much treble, not enough bass, bad > > balance between the instruments. All George Martin's > > fault. > > If you want an idea of what I'm talking about, > listen to "Rain" and try to imagine it the way > it would have been mixed with someone with an > appreciation for the bass as not only rhythm > but as melody line and driving force. Paul was > *not* a half-bad bassist, but they buried the > bass line of this song way down in the mix, > and it's one of the niftiest and more creative > bass lines one can find in pop music of the > time. > > I guess I'm coming from a kind of pseudo- > audiophile point of view. One listens to music > on a fairly good, near-audiophile-quality > system, and one listens to it *flat*, man. > No added or lessened bass, no added or les- > sened treble, *flat*. If it sounds "wrong" > somehow, not the way live music sounds when > played live, then someone along the way had > a somewhat distorted idea of what music is > "supposed" to sound like. > > The Beatles' music, as wonderful as many of > the melodies and lyrics are, were forced into > a "sound bag" prevalent in recording at the > time they "came up." That "bag" depended on > heavy compression (that is, little to no > dynamic range), a dependence on treble (because > that's all that the crappy speakers in most > music systems of the time could reproduce), > and almost no bass (ditto). > > These days, with another three or four decades > of audio engineering under our belts, it just > sounds passé to me. It's tough for me to > "suspend disbelief" and enjoy it the way I > might have back at the time it came out. > > Duh. A lot like the dogma I bought without > reservation back then, and now look upon with > wonder...that I ever believed that it could > be true. > Hey thanks for the riff on Beatles' music. Rain was one of my favorite songs, along with Paperback Writer and earlier, Ticket To Ride. Those guys did a lot of great, innovative music for the time, though some of it does sound dated now-- It'd be cool to remix it, and put all of that depth you are talking about back in.
Also liked Day Tripper, A Day In The Life, Only A Northern Song, and Tomorrow Never Knows, and many, many others.:-)
