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Posted by Larry Jordan
on December 5, 2008, 9:00 am, in reply to "But you love me Daddy"
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When Mary decided to do an overdub of this song, the original tape master could not be located in the RCA files. So she had to rely on an acetate dub that Jim himself had played once too often. He loved the song and often played it for friends. Unfortunately, it had some pops and clicks on it through wear.
In the days when Mary was doing overdubs -- which was still the "analog age" (before digital) -- engineers were rather limited it what clean-up techniques they could employ. So the overdubbed version ended up containing some surface noise from the acetate.
When Owen Bradley and his engineer did the Jim Reeves/Patsy Cline "duets" -- mixing the two artists' separate vocal tracks together and then overlaying new instrumentation -- there is also an awful lot of tape hiss apparent on Jim's vocal. In fact, it is very distracting to listen to. All of that could now be cleaned up, of course, and on one re-release I've heard in recent years (I can't remember from whom), that has been accomplished, so it sounds better.
Sad to say, so much of Jim's catalog of studio masters, has still not been given the sort of clean up that is currently possible, or that his great artistry deserves.
The non-RCA recordings we have worked with for the VoiceMasters CDs have, however, been put through our own proprietary clean-up efforts and of course 24-bit digital remastering. The results speak for themselves.
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