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Old 2nd July 2009   #19
wado1942
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on Billie Jean there's a blip at 3:45-3:46 on my MP3 copies of the 1982, 2001, and 2008 releases... it almost seems like it could be a very strange vocal "uh", but it sounds like an artifact. is that on the record? what is it?
That squeek in the left channel? It sounds like an MP3 decoder error but it's on the CD. There's actually a few of them, perhaps a vocal lick?



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Commercial music is becoming less and less about the music and more about the "product" and its placement.
The key word is "commercial". The only reason art exists in the corporate world is to get people's attention to sell something. The product being sold maybe art itself but that art is secondary. Art is a commodity no different from potatoes or Brittany Spears.



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I bought the #1's CD and it sounds pretty bad considering the originals are esteemed as gr8 pillars of sonic engineering achievement
My wife has that comp. The first time I heard it was in her car and I could hear the distortion there. I analyzed it at home. BJ is -7.5 RMS and each snare drum hit has about 20-150 overloads.


Does ANYBODY here have the original master? I really want to hear it now because the copy I have sound no where near as good as I remember it.
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