https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:11:07 +0000 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:54:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=10231 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66909&title=fernando-abba#66909 Author: EdisonLite
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Posted: 06 June 2025 at 1:54am

Andy, you noticed that. lol. That's the CD source I used for Steal Away, so I'll try to raise the intro and see how it goes.

I wish I could figure out a way for Turn to Stone. For some reason, that intro fade-in over a full track is the one I'd most like to hear without the fade :)]]> Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:54:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66909&title=fernando-abba#66909 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66906&title=fernando-abba#66906 Author: AndrewChouffi
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Posted: 05 June 2025 at 7:27pm

I don't recall using any NR, but it was nearly 25 years ago I did it, so my memory may be somewhat hazy.

I do remember taking it from 'Radio Daze' which you were credited on!

Andy]]> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:27:31 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66906&title=fernando-abba#66906 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66901&title=fernando-abba#66901 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10231
Posted: 05 June 2025 at 10:25am

I'll try that. Was the beginning of the intro real hissy? When I've done that sort of thing with a CD, that can happen. (Then I have to use a dehisser in stages so it sounds natural.)]]> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:25:40 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66901&title=fernando-abba#66901 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66900&title=fernando-abba#66900 Author: AndrewChouffi
Subject: 10231
Posted: 05 June 2025 at 7:00am

"Steal Away" can be easily done as the first kick drum beat is on the CD (albeit 60db lower).

In the early 2000s when I converted my CDs & vinyl to my gig laptop drive that's exactly what I did. It sounds pretty good.

Andy

Edited by AndrewChouffi - 05 June 2025 at 7:00am]]> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66900&title=fernando-abba#66900 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66897&title=fernando-abba#66897 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10231
Posted: 04 June 2025 at 7:00pm

For Turn To Stone, Steal Away & Never Ending Story ...
Has anyone here tried to create versions where the intro didn't fade in? (I've done that for an album cut or 2. There generally needs to be a later portion, either in the intro or an instrumental piece before Verse 2 that's at full volume, which can be substituted in for the actual (faded-in) intro. "Turn to Stone" came on today, and how I wished that intro started cold.

For the 1st 2 songs, I'm sure the intros were fully there, so I don't know why they'd do this.]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:00:06 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66897&title=fernando-abba#66897 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66624&title=fernando-abba#66624 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10231
Posted: 10 May 2025 at 1:48pm

Interesting examples here and yeah, most all bother me. The only one that I'd put in a different category is "While You See a Chance", which has a string pad (chord) that fades in. Lots of songs do that. It's more the ones that had drums, or other beat-like sounds, that fade in - which I wish just started cold :)

Oh and "Never Ending Story" fading in and out, being never ending. I never would have thought of that. And it's been about 40 years! lol]]> Sat, 10 May 2025 13:48:31 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66624&title=fernando-abba#66624 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66618&title=fernando-abba#66618 Author: AndrewChouffi
Subject: 10231
Posted: 10 May 2025 at 6:20am

Hykker wrote: I think the 45 is a remix too.

It is.

And it's damn near mono.

There's additional Buckingham guitar flourishes with stereo reverb that help propel the song.

Andy

Edited to add: Hykker was talking about "Over My Head"; there are a few records being discussed in this thread.

Edited by AndrewChouffi - 10 May 2025 at 6:23am]]> Sat, 10 May 2025 06:20:36 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66618&title=fernando-abba#66618 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66611&title=fernando-abba#66611 Author: 995wlol
Subject: 10231
Posted: 09 May 2025 at 1:34pm

LunarLaugh wrote: "Never Ending Story" fades in at the intro and then fades out at the end in order to imply that the song is, in fact, never ending.

The B-side of the promo 45 includes the "Remix" which actually starts at full volume. This is the version my local station played during its original run.]]> Fri, 09 May 2025 13:34:20 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66611&title=fernando-abba#66611 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66610&title=fernando-abba#66610 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 10231
Posted: 09 May 2025 at 10:25am

A few others that come to mind...

From the 60s:
Eight Days A Week - The Beatles
Suzie Q - CCR

From the 80s:
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2]]> Fri, 09 May 2025 10:25:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66610&title=fernando-abba#66610 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10231&PID=66607&title=fernando-abba#66607 Author: Hykker
Subject: 10231
Posted: 09 May 2025 at 6:55am

   

crapfromthepast wrote: The fade-in on Boston's "More Than A Feeling" still bugs me to this day.

Every station I've worked at, including a couple classic rockers always cued it to the first bass note in the intro.
Their follow-up single "Long Time" was the same way, though that only gets played today on classic rockers, and it's the full LP version.

Paul Haney wrote: A few other hits from that era that fade-in: Space Oddity - David Bowie Black Water - Doobie Brothers Turn To Stone - ELO Swingtown - Steve Miller

a couple more that immediately come to mind...
Joy - Apollo 100
While You See A Chance - Steve Winwood
Don't Stand So Close To Me - Police
Steal Away - Robbie Dupree

LunarLaugh wrote: The LP version of Fleetwood Mac's "Over My Head" fades in but the 45 starts cold with an edit right on the downbeat taken from (I presume) a later part of the song.

I think the 45 is a remix too.


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