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Posted by Dave Cole
on December 5, 2008, 2:26 pm, in reply to "Re: But you love me Daddy"
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Thanks for the info Larry.
One thing though, Bear's stereo version of this song (without RCA's overdub) has Steve Moore mixed to a channel all on his own, with enough channel separation to be able to be able to turn him down completely. The reason I mention this is because I was able to record my own 8 year old son, a couple of years ago, singing along with Jim as though he were with him in the studio - singing Steve’s lyrics.
Regards,
Dave
--Previous Message--
:
: 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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