Of retaping and a replacement

Following a little on from last week's post spring cleaning an area I have been dealing with is redoing a few older tapes as some of those older tapes had wear and other issues including being missing.

Simultaneous to that I had been sorting out the cd shelves moving some discs down here as I'm spending more time downstairs and in the instance of my REO Speedwagon cds there always was one whose sound I'd been never really impressed by.

Something went wrong with the mixing with this album as has flabby ill defined bass and muted top in places and the UK version of lp wasn't much good so was replaced by Dutch copy that used the American parts to make  the pressings that was much better.

By 1989 compact discs were very much a thing and I was buying cd copies of albums starting with those I originally bought on cassette and so when came to getting a couple of titles I had on record I had to wait to the summer before U.S. versions came out.

When it came to the puntastic You Can Tune a Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish, the only copy I saw was the european copy that came out in the mid 80's.

That sounded nearly as bad as the first lp I had. Maybe it used the same source?

What until recently I didn't realize was there was a U.S. version  in that series I did get and I managed to track one down and it does sound much better.

Going for a moment back to cassettes the first cassettes I made of the lp only material were done of genuine BASF Chrome Super and later redone in late 1987 to Maxell XLII but those left the house in the late 1990's as they were superseded as I thought by MiniDiscs.

The tapes have been redone on Maxell XLII-S and UDII type two tapes minus noise reduction, the way back in the early 1980's I did them sounding really good.

The past never goes away, it just returns.