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Todd Ireland
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Does anyone have Seals & Crofts' "Get Closer" on any CD that doesn't sound like it has a bunch of noise reduction applied to it? I have this song on the following titles, including from some normally very reputable labels:
VA - Sessions Presents Secret Love (Sessions OPCD-4505)
VA - Super Hits Of The 70's Volume 20 (Rhino 71200)
VA - Easy Seventies (JCI 3307)
VA - Ultimate Seventies – 1976 (Time-Life R634-04)
VA - Seventies Feelings (Sound Exchange/Warner Special Products OPCD-4565)
VA - Singers And Songwriters 1976-1977 (Time-Life R812-04 and 25915-D)
As a result of the tape hiss having largely been removed (just listen to the song's intro and you can tell), the sound quality of "Get Closer" just seems to lack the "airiness" and "sparkle" that it should have, in my opinion. Could this noise reduction have been applied to the original master tape? Or do perhaps one of the releases from Razor & Tie, Wounded Bird, or Reader's Digest Music contain a different mastering with the tape hiss still intact?
Edited by Todd Ireland on 24 February 2025 at 7:50am
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I think it's a mixing choice. All the CDs I have with the song all lack any type of hiss on the intro.
I gave a detailed listen to the Rhino, Sessions, and Time-Life discs. The high end didn't disappear on the fade on any of them. (In other words, the EQ remained the same all the way down the very long fade. You can hear the hi-hat right until the music ends.) That tells me that there wasn't any noise reduction added during the mastering phase.
I don't have any CD copies that sound different on the intro. I suspect that it's just mixed that way.
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