DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
I forgot, yeah Tim was out there this year. I only have Replacements CDs and old, originals, not even Rhino remasters. Yeah, indeed, those usually sound much better so I'm painting with a broad stroke. With terrible ears to boot.
In this case the record was originally intended for vinyl so the CDs from that era sound really bad, so it's the opposite phenomenon at work. Not that 1990s CD don't benefit but when a recording was known to be for CD they engineered it better while those 1980s records that maybe sounded decent on wax ended up awful on their first CDs. The original Tim CD I have was done in 1987 with the generic WCI Record Group given mastering credit.
The RSD Tim is two slabs, one of which is an Ed Stasium mix and the other a remaster of the original mix, but I wonder if it's the same pressing as the 2009 Rhino reissue. Not sure who mixed it originally, although Tom Erdelyi is credited as the producer (you probably know him better as Tommy Ramone) and the original engineer was Steve Fjelstad. So it was probably both of them involved.
The original 1985 LP was mastered by Jack Skinner, who did a crap load of records. I have several and I bet you do, too.
In this case the record was originally intended for vinyl so the CDs from that era sound really bad, so it's the opposite phenomenon at work. Not that 1990s CD don't benefit but when a recording was known to be for CD they engineered it better while those 1980s records that maybe sounded decent on wax ended up awful on their first CDs. The original Tim CD I have was done in 1987 with the generic WCI Record Group given mastering credit.
The RSD Tim is two slabs, one of which is an Ed Stasium mix and the other a remaster of the original mix, but I wonder if it's the same pressing as the 2009 Rhino reissue. Not sure who mixed it originally, although Tom Erdelyi is credited as the producer (you probably know him better as Tommy Ramone) and the original engineer was Steve Fjelstad. So it was probably both of them involved.
The original 1985 LP was mastered by Jack Skinner, who did a crap load of records. I have several and I bet you do, too.
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