Black Sabbath Deluxe Editions out 6/29/09

Does anybody know the history of Hartford recording? To my ears it sounds like a board tape - or a very quickly done rough mix.

 

I wouldn't doubt that they did, but I thought you were implying Live Evil might sound like it does in part because of the tones Iommi and Butler were favoring at the time. I don't think that has much to do with it. The midrange added when they were mixing the album sounds positively jacked. Whether this was the engineer's decision, a production decision, the monitors ... who knows? But this has an impact on everything. Appice's drums probably suffer the worst from all of the midrange EQ, IMO.

I still want to pick this up on vinyl again one day to make sure it wasn't at least a bit in analog.

 

Never got this one because of the bad reviews.

That frown of the DE vs the old WB of Live Evil accentuates the prominent midrange even more though. The old US WB seems a little more balanced to me. Still bad, but less bad than the DE.

 

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