Did Beatles Abbey Rd studios Master in the CR?

[rayc]

Fix it in playback -> portable MP3 player, MEGA BASS & other fun "?" EQ setting to compensate for just about everything except the quality, the music and the speaker buds/phones/stuff.
These things confuse me as do the EQ preset settings for WMP. Heavy metal setting - is that to make a non metal song sound metal or a metal song to sound more metal? Is it to compnsate for the inate probs of MP3 etc or the probably dinky comp speakers?
Confusing!
Oh, the pom's'd be less than chuffed at being referred to as European when it comes to 60's/70's music.

 

[Ironklad Audio]

Don't laugh, we're halfway there now with some bands suppling raw tracks to the listeners to mix themselves

i know a lot of musicians are both lazy and broke, but goddamn...

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Heavy metal setting - is that to make a non metal song sound metal or a metal song to sound more metal? Is it to compnsate for the inate probs of MP3 etc or the probably dinky comp speakers?

It's to compensate for the poor ears and poor taste of the listener; I'll bet you 10:1 that setting is a smiley/death scoop- style EQ that over-accentuates the low and high frequencies. In fact' I'll bet you that half of the presets you have do the exact same thing (or at least something close to it.)

My car stereo has EQ presets for Country, Jazz, Rock, Classical, Newsradio, Normal and Manual. Manual is "preset off", Normal is flat. Of the remaining five presets, three of them are identical bass/high boosts, and a setting that usually sounds like crap regardless of the program source.

G.

 

[cello_pudding]

It's threads like this one that cause me to remember that more than half the people in this racket these days are too young to remember the days when "Direct To Disc" was touted as the high-fidelity way to go. They didn't even go to tape; they had the cutting lathes right in the CR and the signal went live out of the board direct to the lathes. This of course meant no mastakes in the performance or the mixing, because there were no overdubs, no remixes, no punches, no fixing in the mastering. But they sounded great.

G.

watch this until 1:14

is this what you describe?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1k_duh9uhgM

 

[LogicDeLuxe]

I used to use Megabass and stuff like that. Until I got my Koss Porta Pro headphones. They are just the best mobile headphones I ever heared. Nothing sounds better then perfectly linear playback with them.
Thus, if you think, stuff like Megabass improves anything, you are probably using bad headphones. Better don't even think about using those which came with the player, even if they might have a golden plug.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

watch this until 1:14

is this what you describe?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1k_duh9uhgM

Yeah, pretty much. Of course the irony there is - in typical Hollywoord fake style - that the soundtrack they use for that video is actually heavily overdubbed .

For a pretty neat page describing a D2D recording that was performed live at the AES convention in 2001, go here. This page includes several neat pictures (dig the old custom-made tube mixing console), including a picture of the Neumann disc cutter at the bottom of the page.

Also, an incredible list of vintage gear (when's the last time you old audiophiles saw a Thornes turntable in action?!? ) used on that session, and a nice link to a page showing documentation for and explaining that entire recording session.

I especially get a kick out of the weird juxtaposition of using a Mackie 1202 as the monitor/send mixer in the midst of all that great old stuff, as well as the custom headphones derived from taking the drivers out of a pair of Sony 7506s and stick them into airplane tarmac worker's isolation shells .

G.