Albums which yield wildly different results w/ EQ settings... and sound equally good/bad

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Husker Du - The Living End. What the fuck is this album supposed to sound like? Thin, muffled, reverby washed out with indistinguishable chords and vocals way up in the mix or thin, crunchy bumble bee bootleg sound with vocals buried beneath indecipherable muffled buzzing? I'm thinking the first option, but the second option almost sounds better (and yet it is also more annoying and aggressive sounding).

― Expensive Stereo, Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Did the rerelease of Go! Team sound less trebly? I spent about five minutes re-EQ'ing a track in Soundforge and it sounded so much better.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mastering is hard!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

really scraping the bottom of the barrel here folks

― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if this is exactly "EQ"ing, but it's fun to listen to some older songs where different instruments were mixed to different sides and pan to one side or the other. On Blue Cheer's "Out of Focus" the drums are all on one side.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Although I've never heard it on vinyl, every CD version of "Little Red Corvette" by Prince has sounded utterly awful to my ears...it's like he turned the compressor all the way up and wedged all the instruments into a broom closet filled with pillows.
Great song, but it sounds like a cocaine buzz and never breathes.

― Ignatz, Friday, 4 November 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hell, sometimes entire albums are recontextualized once just one of your speakers goes out.. case in point: original CD issue of Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum. ("WHEREZ DA BASS?")

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

The first time I listened to the "closet mix" of the s/t Velvet Underground album, I had the balance on my car stereo turned all the way to the driver's side for some reason. Listening to "What Goes On," I was thinking "well, it certainly is 'intimate,' but where the hell are the drums?"

A bit embarrassing.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

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