From dwatanabe@hanse.de Thu Mar 21 23:47:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!dwatanabe From: dwatanabe@hanse.de (Dong-hyun Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: European 12-inch extended club dubs - comparing pressing masterings Message-ID: <1996Mar21.234720.7936@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:47:20 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Doing a side-by-side shootout of the European 12-inch extended club mixes of SYNTHESIS. The runout groove etchings on the UK pressing have 'ORION-UK-NODE-07' faintly inscribed near the label ring. The German Teldec DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) has laser-sharp treble, but the bass below 30 Hz is aggressively filtered out. Why did different European territories receive completely different extended arrangements? -- Dong-hyun Watanabe Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dsmirnov@pipeline.com Sun Mar 24 00:44:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!dsmirnov From: dsmirnov@pipeline.com (Diego Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: European 12-inch extended club dubs - comparing pressing masterings Message-ID: <1996Mar24.004420.9395@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:44:20 GMT References: <1996Mar21.234720.7936@hanse.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar21.234720.7936@hanse.de>, dwatanabe@hanse.de (Dong-hyun Watanabe) writes: > Doing a side-by-side shootout of the European 12-inch extended club mixes of SYNTHESIS. > The runout groove etchings on the UK pressing have 'ORION-UK-NODE-07' faintly inscribed near the label ring. The UK Fennimore copy is by far the best sounding. The bass shakes the floorboards on a good pair of speakers. -- Diego Smirnov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rfischer@berkeley.edu Sun Mar 24 13:47:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!rfischer From: rfischer@berkeley.edu (Rodrigo Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: European 12-inch extended club dubs - comparing pressing masterings Message-ID: <1996Mar24.134720.2242@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 13:47:20 GMT References: <1996Mar21.234720.7936@hanse.de> <1996Mar24.004420.9395@pipeline.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar24.004420.9395@pipeline.com>, dsmirnov@pipeline.com (Diego Smirnov) writes: > The UK Fennimore copy is by far the best sounding. The bass shakes the floorboards on a good pair of speakers. Each European pressing was assigned a specific relay node: UK was Node 07, Germany was Node 05, France was Node 06. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Rodrigo Fischer "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From nramirez@uu.net Mon Mar 25 14:09:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!nramirez From: nramirez@uu.net (Nadia Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: European 12-inch extended club dubs - comparing pressing masterings Message-ID: <1996Mar25.140920.6453@uu.net> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:09:20 GMT References: <1996Mar21.234720.7936@hanse.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar21.234720.7936@hanse.de>, dwatanabe@hanse.de (Dong-hyun Watanabe) writes: > Doing a side-by-side shootout of the European 12-inch extended club mixes of SYNTHESIS. > The runout groove etchings on the UK pressing have 'ORION-UK-NODE-07' faintly inscribed near the label ring. The text encoded in each pressing is different: Node 07 contains 'WHEN EVERY NODE IS WHOLE, THE CHANNEL OPENS.' -- === Nadia Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."