[peel] Peel change of voice quality

[Mike Parker]

 Absolutely Stuart those latter shows sounded terrible and effected the whole mood of the show which i put down to somebody in the studio messing with the settings rather than the rasping voice of maturity and when i used to record some of them to Mini Disc around 2000 they sounded all the more shocking and wondered who the new bloke was?
    On Sunday, 18 November 2018, 22:21:04 GMT, stuartb@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:  
 
     

I've often thought about the sound of John's voice in the 1999-2004 era, wondering if the slightly distorted, rasping quality was a function of 128kbps DVB-S rips that predominate from the various torrents of the time, or just the gradual change in vocal timbre due to "maturity". I was previously aware from the ISector and MaxDat tapes from the time that John had been experimenting with the DJ tonal balance / compression settings, such as the Trevor Nelson setting, in spring 1998. But while ripping the Lee tapes from that era it struck me that the change was sudden, with the show of 21 May 1998 definitely of the later raspy sound, but just a few shows earlier, it was still the mid 90s sound.
I double checked with the MaxDat tape 159 from about then, just to make sure, and I could hear the sudden change there too, even though this was recorded from satellite while (presumably) the Lee Tapes were from FM.
I wonder if John found a setting that sounded fine in the studio about then. Just moving forward a few years to an FSK 2001 show and his voice sounds normal and undistorted again.
Has anyone else noticed the distortion in his voice in late Radio 1 shows? 
    

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