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Post by audiopro on Oct 5, 2023 12:02:14 GMT
The Hoofy Who’s Next was my first sip of the Kool Aid which tasted of almonds. The only thing I had to compare it to was a crackly old LP which, despite its deficiencies, had good bass and dynamics.
The LP had slam, while the Hoofy oozed out of my speakers like a warm, creamy pudding which had gone mouldy.
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Post by bradman on Oct 5, 2023 16:59:03 GMT
That was the mids coming out.
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Post by audiopro on Oct 5, 2023 17:01:30 GMT
That was the mids coming out. There was too much kick drum on that album anyway.
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Post by The Discerning Consumer on Oct 7, 2023 2:59:51 GMT
I bought the 95-97 reissues when they came out, and those are what I've always listened to. Since then I've had no anxiety related to The Who. No hardship or heartbreak I've experienced in the intervening three decades had anything to do with The Who. Those 90s discs did me right.
I think the SHites don't like them, though, so YMMV.
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Post by masterthief on Oct 7, 2023 5:08:02 GMT
Was anybody around when Ken Scott was booted? This guy had more credibility, credentials, whatever, than Hoofy, and got dumped because he challenged Hoffman.
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Post by audiopro on Oct 7, 2023 10:44:13 GMT
The Ken Scott argument was a thing of beauty. They’d already had a terse exchange about internal bounces on 8 track. Steve had “seen a memo” and “read the specs” about this and deemed it impossible. Scott pointed out that, while officially frowned upon, it was a technique they used occasionally. Hoffman doubled down, and it deteriorated from there.
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Post by Aquaholic 2.0 on Oct 7, 2023 11:23:15 GMT
Is that the exchange where ol’ Stevie started it off with, “Were your ears burning as we sang your praise” or something close enough?
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Post by audiopro on Oct 7, 2023 11:34:25 GMT
I think that was a little bit later. What was amazing was how polite Ken Scott was throughout in the face of increasing, orchestrated vitriol. In that regard, the “jumped up little cutting engineer” mic drop was a bolt out of the blue.
Steve’s “evidence” regarding bouncing internally seems to have been based on the limited frequency range of a 1960s domestic sound-on-sound recorder. Like the one he recorded Cecilia Ann on. Heh.
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Post by Aquaholic 2.0 on Oct 7, 2023 11:38:16 GMT
Oh, the “jumped up cutting engineer” I don’t remember. Of course I may just be misremembering this early in the morning. Regardless, for someone who is so deeply involved in “da biz” he sure does piss off and alienate a lot of people.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Oct 7, 2023 14:16:37 GMT
Is that the exchange where ol’ Stevie started it off with, “Were your ears burning as we sang your praise” or something close enough? That was Bob Ezrin.
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Post by cockledge on Oct 7, 2023 18:24:13 GMT
I believe the phrase was "trumped up cutting engineer".
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Post by UDII on Oct 7, 2023 18:26:44 GMT
Hoffman has been ripped apart by many of the best in the biz and it was "trumped up".
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Post by cockledge on Oct 7, 2023 18:28:01 GMT
I bought the 95-97 reissues when they came out, and those are what I've always listened to. Since then I've had no anxiety related to The Who. No hardship or heartbreak I've experienced in the intervening three decades had anything to do with The Who. Those 90s discs did me right. I think the SHites don't like them, though, so YMMV. I enjoyed them then and now.
I liked having all the extra tracks and really love their goofy pop rock period of A Quick One and Sell Out.
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Post by ledzeppelin2rl on Oct 7, 2023 20:50:02 GMT
Is that the exchange where ol’ Stevie started it off with, “Were your ears burning as we sang your praise” or something close enough? That was Bob Ezrin. I think that was an Alice Cooper album Hoffman fucked up the mastering on. Ezrin produced the album and bitched Hoffman out for his hack job he done to it.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Oct 7, 2023 21:15:59 GMT
I think that was an Alice Cooper album Hoffman fucked up the mastering on. Ezrin produced the album and bitched Hoffman out for his hack job he done to it. The whole affair was amazing! From Hoffman’s egotistical, self-congratulatory OP, to Bob Ezrin’s unprecedented smackdown, then for STeVE’s “homina, homina, homina”, pant-filling reaction when called out. IIRC, Marsha also put a stop to Daddy’s “Adventures in Mastering” bullshit sessions in the wake Ezrin bitch-slapping STeVE around in his own forum! 😂
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