Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light

Yah Shure wrote: aaronk wrote: I'm also curious to know if there's a mono side to the promo 45 Yes, there was. Haven't played it since back in the day, though. Will do that tomorrow.

UPDATE: I initially thought the mono side sounded like a fold-down, but the high-hat during the intro comes through clearer on the mono side than on the folded-down stereo side.   

Edited by Yah Shure

Guess the only way to resolve my possibly faulty recall of the 45 is to buy a turntable and single off of eBay! LOL

Aaron, VERY nice job on the new-and-improved CD track! Thanks for the time spent tweaking it.

I'm sure that someone has come up with a scientific word to describe people who spend far too much time tweaking stereo tracks so that they sound great in mono. Fortunately, that person hasn't come knocking on my door yet. ;)   

Aaron, I deejayed a wedding dance for the first time two weeks ago, and because the classic rock-loving bridal couple had pre-selected all the music, I had considered mixing everything to mono beforehand. That didn't turn out to be necessary, but in prepping the music and seeing so many compressed waveforms and brickwalling on stuff I was was ripping from even early-'90s CD pressings, I decided to transfer everything from the list that I had on vinyl from the records, rather than the CDs. The last thing I wanted to deal with was sound levels that ran all over the map.

Of course, that meant a LOT more work, but at least I now have that material archived for my own use... which is mostly microbroadcast through mono AM these days.