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Apr 24, 2020 - 1:54 PM
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John Smith
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I do believe I'm on record mentioning the wow problems and distortions in the FSM release, which is the only version I'm ever likely to own. I did say that Mike might like to have a go at it years ago, with the Capstan software and whatever other software/hardware has since come on line to take out the cobwebs. It really makes listening to the music a chore when you can tell the vinegar has really got to the source. The Prize also suffered the same problem here and there, although, for some strange reason I can get through The Prize a bit easier than Morituri.
That must've been about 9-10 years ago. Tempus fugit.
I made very similar comments about FSM’s Morituri back in 2001. However, in my case, it was their release of Beneath the 12-Mile Reef which I found largely unlistenable.
The fact is that several of the FSM discs at that time were compromised with varying degrees of flutter and wow, but, like many other collectors, I continued to buy them because Kendall and Co were the only ones excavating the Twentieth Century Fox vaults back then. One can only suppose that the rental on Melodyne - or similar restoration tools (Capstan wasn't introduced until 2011) - was financially prohibitive for a boutique operation like FSM, hence the less-than-stellar sound quality.
The exemplary liner notes were another reason for acquiring the FSM releases - it’s an empirical fact that only much later did such trenchant observation and painstaking analysis become the universal norm for soundtrack liner notes.
But still, it all boils down to the music. Therefore, as much as it pains my bank manager, all these new releases of the FSM back catalogue will definitely be worming their way to Krakow sooner or later…
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