What in the world is going on.....
His early solo albums--standard issue-- sound pretty great as I remember. Don’t know if they were all Phil Ramone, but that would explain a lot. I have more respect for him now than I did back in the day--it was too "pop" oriented for me at the time. I got to hear him play several years ago at a small benefit show in a non-music venue-- audience of several hundred people. He was unbelievably musical. |
Roy Halee was the engineer I believe. He did the mixes on this album. This from Wikipedia: Simon also worked with longtime friend Roy Halee, who is listed as co-producer on the album. Halee, who had retired years earlier, was mostly recruited to advise on how to create natural echo. He was unfamiliar with Pro Tools, so Simon helped him with it. "I always liked working with him more than anyone else," Simon noted |
I noted that with most of modern pressings there are lots of manufacturing defects that I had to deal with by sending copies back to receive replacement. I once had to send back whole batch of poorly mastered and sounding records where the bass diminished all other notes to almost inaudible. I guess certain current releases are better-of stickin' to MP3 or other similar cwap. |
