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=== Defects === | |||
The first One Way release has terrible sound quality. It is very muddy and lacks treble. Supposedly, it was not mastered from an original master tape. After complaints from listeners, One Way recalled the disc from stores, remastered the disc, and rereleased it. | |||
The second One Way release has much better sound than the first, but it was created from a very unusual master tape. Rich Goodhart reports the tape "is a quickly made rough mix tape of the finished multi-tracks, never intended to be a master tape and shouldn't even be thought of as one. How One Way got ahold of it is a mystery to me, though I am glad they did for the alternate view." Some of the instrumental and vocal parts are different from those of the original album! Some of the lines in "Time To Kill" are sung by Derek Shulman instead of Kerry Minnear; for example, "And with no questions then, he finds his way." The drums in "On Reflection" enter half a verse earlier than in the original. And worst of all, at the climax of "On Reflection," when the full band comes CRASHING in, the drums are barely audible! In addition, there are a few extra measures on the guitar/drum break of "Just the Same." Finally, if you have a good stereo system, you can hear some background noise like lip smacks and breathing. Details on this master tape can be found in issue 3 of "Proclamation, The Occasional Gentle Giant Newsletter." | |||
The Terrapin Trucking release is excellent. It is noticeably superior to the One Way releases. Even so, there were complaints about the amount of hiss on the "RGF CD" disc, so Kerry Minnear and John Weathers remastered the Terrapin disc AGAIN to reduce the amount of hiss. The disc was then given the TRUCKCD number. The difference between the RGF and TRUCKCD discs is likely very small. | |||
I have not heard the BGO CD, but reports are conflicting. Some people say the sound quality is very good. For example, Matt Urban says "it is noticeably fuller with more presence" than the first One Way release. | |||
On the other hand, Steffen Barabasch complains that "whoever did the mastering shouldn't quit his other day job. While the louder parts are ok, with a full, warm sound, the quiet passages, and as you know there are some on these albums, suffer from a very disturbing noise, similar to FM static. You can hear it very clearly at the beginning of Just The Same (the snap part), the Pong samples on Time To Kill, the pause before the final drum roll on Mobile, all the interview parts on the Interview album, and wherever else it gets more quiet. The same, static-like noise is on both albums, so I suspect it was caused by improper sampling or mastering and has nothing to do with the original master quality." | |||
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