From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1855 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, March 8 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 1855 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni and her Yosemite Sam [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 22:18:59 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Joni and her Yosemite Sam We should probably allow for this record having been made in the 60s. Distortion was commonplace, awful tape hiss over an AM radio just blended in, drastic echo and reverb were part of the groovy head trip and mono gramophones in peoples bedrooms didnbt reveal much. Once FM came along and there was wider frequency bandwidth you could sort of tell a good recording from a bad one. What we are accustomed today, mp3s notwithstanding, is pretty deep bass, clear open treble and absence of artifacts like tape noise and distortion. STAS is, to be fair, not much worse sounding than plenty of 60s records - listen to Bridge Over Troubled Water again and check out the massive echo chamber and distorted mellotron strings. > On Mar 7, 2015, at 6:44 PM, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: > > I'll add these comments. > > I think it was in David Crosby's autobiography that he said that there WAS no recording engineer. That he barely knew how to press Record and didn't even set a level. He said that is why the masters have lots of tape. He also said that he recorded some vocals with a mic INSIDE a piano because it might yield an interesting effect from the sympathetic ringing. > > > > We're lucky that they didn't have to start over. > > Anyway, I don't think the sound is bad at all. Not nearly as bad as "Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs". > > I think the principals have exaggerated the problems! > > Jim ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1855 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------