Firefall - Goodbye, I Love You (bad tape)
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Topic: Firefall - Goodbye, I Love You (bad tape)
Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Firefall - Goodbye, I Love You (bad tape)
Date Posted: 25 December 2007 at 12:32am
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The song "Goodbye, I Love You" by Firefall has a mastering problem on Greatest Hits. Starting at about 0:46 during the first chorus, the tape starts squealing.
Do other CDs also have this problem? Does anyone know what this is caused from? When I was a kid, I accidentally dropped my Journey cassette tape in the pool. Even after letting it thoroughly dry out, from that day forward, it had a horrid squealing sound. The Firefall song isn't dreadful by any means, but it makes me wonder if the mastering engineer might have also accidentally dropped it in the pool. ;) |
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 25 December 2007 at 9:13am
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Aaron:
Just listened to this song digitally. The song goes south at :46 in on: Elan Greatest Hits You Are The Woman & Other Hits It's not as bad as the above, but somewhat an issue on: The Essentials: Firefall Even though this song isn't in my active library, if I were looking for this song, I'd go with The Essentials version. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 25 December 2007 at 11:46am
| Thanks for the tip, eriejwg! Much appreciated. Merry Christmas! |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 13 August 2009 at 9:21pm
| Revisiting this track, does anyone know the edit points to recreate the 3:23 'short DJ 45' version? |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 14 August 2009 at 5:31am
Since no one answered this part I'll speculate...in the mid (ish) 70s tape manufacturers started using a different binder for the oxide. It did not stand up well & oxide would shed and gum up the tape guides. Layers on the reels themselves would often stick to one another as well. This seemed to affect most, if not all manufacturers. In many cases baking the reels can give you a couple of plays, maybe these masters were too far gone. To me it's inexcusable to use something like this on a CD. Even a needle drop would have been preferable if that was the only clean source available. |
aaronk wrote: