fatherotti Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 After many years of the CDs being the way I always listened to this.... I was kind of stunned to discover not only did the 1991 LP mix sound better (Obviously it's in hifi), but it used a slightly different mix compared to the CDs and pretty sure all the LPs that came later. Christie Road for example sounds insane. It sounds like Mike's bass was a bit naturally louder than the guitar and for some reason, every subsequent release has since changed that. Not even the 1992 Lookout CD kept the same mix. Like they wanted more emphasis on Billie and lowered Mike to the point where that beautiful bass slapping is almost non existent. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 This has to do with the fact that the LP is true analog and cds are analog-digital Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kripack Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 16 hours ago, Lenny said: This has to do with the fact that the LP is true analog and cds are analog-digital CD's are pure digital and I doubt it has anything to do with this at all, it's just a different mix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cav9mm Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 46 minutes ago, kripack said: CD's are pure digital and I doubt it has anything to do with this at all, it's just a different mix Surely CD’s are not pure digital in the sense that an MP3 or any file format is pure digital ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nopride84 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 It's not a different mix . It is because it's on vinyl like Lenny said.Yea they had two diff mixes done with only $2000 to record with and 4 sessions lol. It's the same mix just eq or noise reduction added to the cd. Also depends on if it the reprise vinyl and the reprise CDs cuz those are remastered. Different mix hahahaha Also I hope you're not posting this based solely on listening to that YouTube rip of the vinyl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 7 hours ago, kripack said: CD's are pure digital and I doubt it has anything to do with this at all, it's just a different mix It’s not a different mix. When the reprise re-release came around in 2005 it wasn’t even remastered or remixed. 25 minutes ago, nopride84 said: It's not a different mix . It is because it's on vinyl like Lenny said.Yea they had two diff mixes done with only $2000 to record with and 4 sessions lol. It's the same mix just eq or noise reduction added to the cd. Also depends on if it the reprise vinyl and the reprise CDs cuz those are remastered. Different mix hahahaha Also I hope you're not posting this based solely on listening to that YouTube rip of the vinyl Are we sure those are remastered? I was under the impression they were not. From my memory it was just a re-release with the EPs added to the cd. Usually in the mid 2000s if something was remastered it would say remastered in the spine of the cd case. Also on Spotify I don’t see the remastered and non remastered versions. 7 hours ago, kripack said: CD's are pure digital and I doubt it has anything to do with this at all, it's just a different mix Cds are not pure digital if they recorded in analog. That would make it analog-digital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleasedToMeetMe Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Slappy Hours was definitely remastered for the rerelease, pretty sure Kerplunk was too. Nothing major though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kripack Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/20/2023 at 4:33 PM, Lenny said: Cds are not pure digital if they recorded in analog. That would make it analog-digital. Audio CD is a digital format. It contains nothing but 1s and 0s. If you want to call it analog-digital for the reason that the original master tapes or whatever they used to record that album are analog format, then you should call MP3s, Spotify or almost any other contemporary medium of that album "analog-digital". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 5 hours ago, kripack said: Audio CD is a digital format. It contains nothing but 1s and 0s. If you want to call it analog-digital for the reason that the original master tapes or whatever they used to record that album are analog format, then you should call MP3s, Spotify or almost any other contemporary medium of that album "analog-digital". It’s not a matter of opinion, it’s exactly as it is stated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggins Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Yeah it's not a different mix, just a different experience on vinyl Hence why vinyl is so popular now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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