The Mellotron Group

Bruce Daily wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all-
> 
> Yeah, the title track does wear on you. Almost no use of volume
> pedal for dynamic effect. And, wasn't the audio compression used in
> the early 70's wonderful? It 'bout smashed the overall dynamics
> down to nothing. I still like the mix of violins and brass, though
> (I know, I just bought the mix). A very distant and sad sound, but
> yearning for dynamic swells. I picked up "Genesis Live" recently.
> The tron on "Watcher" opens with the violins more prominent that
> the brass, which sounds strange.
> 
> Prog? Gimme "Siberian Khatru", "Topographic Oceans", "Take a
> Pebble", "Selling England By the Pound"(the track), "Black Light
> Syndrome"(something more recent), and, the original "Quadrophenia".
> So there.
> 
> -Bruce D. #1221 (ducking)

What CD version of "Foxtrot" do you have? I seriously wouldn't touch
the recent high-tech remasters with a bargepole. I bought a couple of
them and unloaded them ASAP. Glad I kept my old Genesis CDs. The newer
super-duper reissues have all been given modern mastering and are far
worse for it IMO. Go back to the vinyl or the first US CDS, or even
the first remaster series from the early/mid 90s. You'll find there's
a whole lot more dynamics there than you're hearing, if you have the
version I suspect you have. YMMV.
-- 
Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
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