Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion: "Nice 'n' Easy" - 1960*

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by MLutthans, Jun 19, 2010.

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  1. Pontus Nilsson

    Pontus Nilsson Active Member

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    Yesterday I bought a copy of "Where Are You" 1984 Dutch DMM that reads stereo on cover and labels but is actually mono. Posted in the "Where Are You" thread: Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion: "Where Are You?" (1957 album)*
     
    Pontus Nilsson, Oct 31, 2021
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  2. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff Thread Starter

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    The oddness around those 1984 Dutch DMM LPs continues to intrigue me! I'd love to know the story there....why mono AND stereo releases, with identical packaging and the same catalog number on each? So odd.
     
    MLutthans, Oct 31, 2021
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  3. Pontus Nilsson

    Pontus Nilsson Active Member

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    Truly. Do you know if all these DMM mono versions are from their respective original mono source (in a digital remaster), or if some are technical errors that created "false" mono from the stereo tapes?
     
    Pontus Nilsson, Oct 31, 2021
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  4. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff Thread Starter

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    I think that I have heard all of them (not including this new discovery), and they are all legitimate mono mixes, not fold-downs.
     
    MLutthans, Oct 31, 2021
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  5. Roanoke Park Indefinitely

    Roanoke Park Indefinitely Forum Resident

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    Was The Nearness of You supposed to open this album and was replaced by the title track? Or was there not enough space for all 13 tracks (as with the One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else on "No One Cares").
    I always think of this album as being the final straw that led Frank to want a label where he had creative freedom, but Reprise was probably already in the works by 1960 when this was released.
     
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  6. Beaneydave

    Beaneydave Forum Resident

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    Yes “The Nearness of You” was to be the first track and was replaced with “ Nice n Easy”- which doesn’t really fit with the rest of the album. I like to swap those two tracks and it album works better for me.

    peace and love✌Dave
     
    Beaneydave, Jun 9, 2022
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  7. Artur Torres

    Artur Torres New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo

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    Yesterday, I stopped by to listen to "Nice 'n' Easy" in its entirety and, watching closely, I thought: Frank's voice, on some tracks, is rough. I think that the microphone he used had a protective net, this explains the certain "muffled" in his voice, not to mention the probable reverberation and compression that accentuate this characteristic.
     
    Artur Torres, Aug 2, 2022
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  8. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff Thread Starter

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    I have blathered repeatedly around here about how much I am bothered by "violins on the right" (or at least "first violins" on the right) in recordings, and part of that is because I have been recording orchestras since 1988 -- and the first violins have been on the left every single dang time, without exception.

    I was hired to record a performance of the complete Bach Brandenburg Concertos in Wainscott, NY, last week, and while the upper strings were all on the left (as nature intended), the violin SOLOIST on one of the concerti (which featured a number of soloists, all standing near each other) stood to the conductors right, and boy did that ever catch my brain off-guard when I heard a violinist (the wonderful Richard Roberts, long-time concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony) "fiddling around" in my right ear! I twitched for hours! (Kidding.)

    TECHNICALLY, it still was not "first violin" within the violin section coming from the right, since it was a soloist situation, but it was still aurally jarring....for me!
     
    MLutthans, Sep 16, 2022
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  9. paulmock

    paulmock Forum Resident

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    BRAVO! I'll bet that recording turned out beautifully. I used to be into Clasical and have a number of CD's. But it has been a long time since I played one. Maybe it's time.
    P.S. You sure do get around!!!!:agree:
     
    paulmock, Sep 16, 2022
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  10. teag

    teag Forum Resident

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    I recently bought the 1991 dry vocal CD from Discogs for a few bucks. Pretty good sound but the drier vocals, which I thought would be great, make this album sound a bit duller to me. And I usually like dry vocals. Strange.
     
    teag, Sep 19, 2022
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  11. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff Thread Starter

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    I think that the original mix is way, way too wet, but I also think that the 1988 remix is arguably too dry.
     
    MLutthans, Sep 19, 2022
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  12. CBackley

    CBackley Chairman of the Bored


    A much more swingin’ version of Goldilocks is afoot…
     
    CBackley, Sep 19, 2022
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  13. teag

    teag Forum Resident

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    Yes, totally agree. Where is that happy medium??

    On another note, its almost time for the Christmas album.....I may not make it to Halloween this year before the first play!
     
    teag, Sep 19, 2022
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