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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: thanks for the clarification posted by hifitommy on November 14, 2002 at 06:35:03:
My comments are based upon listening to both more recent CD reissues and in many cases the original LPs, sometimes in stereo but mostly mono, which I'm old enough to have purchased when originally released in the 1950's & '60's. The latter by the way always sounded terrific to me on the equipment I had at the time, either a small Magnavox console or one of those all-in-one-box with detachable speakers items from the same manufacturer. But now that I have an (ridiculously) expensive system capable of far more accurate reproduction, the weaknesses in at least some of RVG's results are apparent. It is also obvious that, in spite of his reputation, there have been other engineers whose work was at least equal to, if not superior, e.g., Paul Goodman (RCA), Roy DuNann (Contemporary), Tom Dowd (Atlantic), Val Valentin (Norman Granz' various labels) and Dick Bock (Pacific Jazz). More recently he has been surpassed easily by the likes of Jim Anderson, David Baker, Malcolm Addey, Joe Ferla, and Phil Edwards.All that having been said, I would not want to leave the impression that I don't listen to and thoroughly enjoy many of the Blue Note, Prestige, Impulse, Muse, et al, releases on which RVG was the engineer. And I also want to say again that no engineer has/had complete control over the sonic results: The producers/label owners (Alfred Lion & Francis Wolff at the original Blue Note; Bob Weinstock at Prestige) would have had input as would the musicians.
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- Re: thanks for the clarification - suretyguy 08:08:05 11/14/02 (1)
- Excellent Post - Severius! 17:14:48 11/14/02 (0)
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