Digest Number 1029

[Jon Horne]

This is true. However you need to consider the technology of the taper, too. My old 
tapes were recorded on a cassette player. If the tape itself is in reasonable nick (few 
of them are, after all these years), then you hear pretty much what I heard on the 
radio when it was being taped. All my stuff from 2000 onwards was recorded on a 
minidisc, which compresses everything to buggery.

Personally I prefer the latter. A case in point: I have the great Peel session version of 
Culture's "Lion Rock" on record. I also minidisc'd it off the radio one night. The former 
is a great song and a great record, but the latter sounds as if I've got Joseph Hill 
standing next to me, blowing herb smoke in my face and prophesising the imminent 
collapse of Babylon. I'll take the compression any day.

Cheers,
Jon

(c/o The Peel Tapes)

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "rigmahus" <rigmahus@y...> wrote:
> 
> > PS But I listened to that Peel 1978 clip from the Tapes site...his 
> voice
> > sounded so 'quiet' those days...or not?
> 
> Is that not something to do with Radio 1 setting all their output 
> compression gear to : FIZZ! these days?
> 
> Jumping between channels in the car - R2,R4,Classical, back to R1 and 
> the sound always jumps out at you and is louder. I dunno...