... are the some of the most poorly mastered CDs to ever hit the street.
I don't know who mastered the stuff, but his hearing was so out of whack that he must have thought adding three times the treble of most everything on the market sounded good.
Listening to Omega's Hall Of Floaters In The Sky tonight. That somebody who would master something like this was allowed to work on stuff which was actually put on the market is just flat out inSANE!
Scattered amongst the crap are a few that aren't too bad, but most of them just plain suck.
Somebody could really do well to pick up this catalog and release better sounding discs. There are some recent vinyl reissues. I tried Krokodil's Getting Up For The Morning and it sounds far better than my old Bellaphon CD. It sounds like it is from digital files but the midrange is incredible and the recording is fantastic. The old CD sounds like one of the smiley EQ jobs that I guess some German engineers favored.
I know some people (me included) weren't happy about the amount of compression used on the Nektar catalog when it was issued by Eclectic, but in most cases the older CDs sounded far worse and some (IE: Tab In The Ocean) even had more compression!
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