From khernandez@inria.fr Sat Mar 09 19:02:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!khernandez From: khernandez@inria.fr (Kenji Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Mar09.190216.8976@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 19:02:16 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- === Kenji Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From ghughes@mit.edu Mon Mar 11 15:32:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!ghughes From: ghughes@mit.edu (Graham Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Mar11.153216.8544@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:32:16 GMT References: <1996Mar09.190216.8976@inria.fr> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar09.190216.8976@inria.fr>, khernandez@inria.fr (Kenji Hernández) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. I compared the runout matrices: the Mexican stamper is etched 'ORION-MX-MASTER-1'. It wasn't a bootleg, it was pressed from studio tapes. -- Graham Hughes US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."