Re: Ping Ruff: Soulmates

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> "Iain Churches" <Iai...@kolumbus.fi> wrote in message
> news:uxHJl.5777$b04....@uutiset.elisa.fi...
>
>> Hi Ruff.
>>
>> Just a quick note to thank you for recommending
>> the Ben Webster/Joe Zawinul album - Soulmates.
>>
>> Both the material and the mastering is first class.
>> The only thing that troubles me slightly, is that
>> recording engineer Ray Fowler chose (for reasons
>> best known to himself)�to use a tape delay on the
>> tenor saxophone, which is taken straight back
>> into the mix. It is not subtle enough to be attractive.
>> If the delay had not been returned to the mix at all,
>> but simply been used as a feed for the reverb
>> (perhaps that's what was intended) that would
>> have sounded especially nice.
>>
>> The delay, which could have been adjusted on a
>> varispeed machine is too long, so that it sound like
>> "slap" and short notes are actually repeated. Also,
>> when Webster is not playing and his mic is left open,
>> the piano leaks onto it and has this tape slap
>> added.
>>
>> Just a small gripe:-( Otherwise a brilliant album:-)))
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Iain
>> Relativity for musicians: E = Fb
>
> Hi Iain.
>
> It's not evident on my LP. Perhaps it's in the remastering?

I can hear it too.

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