Rob Evans wrote:
Dirk Matten wrote:
It sounds different with much more power, better frequency response, no single ended noise reduction. More original to the moment of playing than the final product. It was made from the original cut&paste tapes and I was in the studio, when Conny Plank did his job.
A technically superior record! I would be interested to know why it was not the end product...
It probably was the end product. When a tape goes to the record company lots of things happen still to the signal before it reaches the vinyl or the CD master. It's a matter of taste whether you like noise. Apparently the person who mastered Autobahn did not like it an applied noise reduction. There's quite some noise noise in Kraftwerk records. Listen to The Robots, or Showroom Dummies. You can even hear a noisy instrument being noise-gated. I like that :-) When mastering a vinyl record the cutter has to take care a "BOOM" does not cut the groove in the middle of a "BOING", so some limiting etc is applied too... Rick Jansen __ rja@euronet.nl http://www.euronet.nl/~rja ____________________________________________ S&H's a module and s&h's looking good