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Hmmm...so what is the deal with ATP?  I like the new line-up alot more now 
that SFA and Sonic Youth are in it but it still doesn't make me as excited as 
Bowlie did (not that I went to that either, but its the principle or 
something).  If B&S are supposed to be touring throughout the UK during that 
time period, as they're rumored to be, then perhaps a "suprise guesting" 
would not be unimaginable.  How many Sinistereens are going?  I know a good 
lot of you sold your tickets back when the September gig was shot...
I just fixed my record player once and for all so all this week I've been 
listening to albums without a horrid hiss for the first time.  TBWTAS sounds 
incredible, but I think the B-side to "Beach Boys Today" might be the best 
thing I've heard in my life.  I'd kill for an original mono-LP of Pet Sounds. 
 
Speaking of audio research, I also went back over my CD collection this week 
and listened to all of them with headphones.  "The Soft Bulletin" is just 
crazy!  Not only does it sound amazing through your standard stereo, but they 
manipulated nearly every single track to pan or distort in some way that you 
can only appreciate with headphones.  TBWTAS sounds entirely too cluttered 
this way, unfortunately.
This bring me to a debate just waiting to happen: mono mixes verses stereo 
mixes.  To clear a few things up for those scratching their heads, a mono mix 
of an album is one where every instrument is panned in the center, so 
effectively everything comes out of both speakers equally.  This is how all 
the Beach Boys and Phil Spector records were (and are) still done, and the 
early Beatles records too.  Stereo mixes involve certain instruments being 
shifted to one speaker or headphone depending on how the artists wants it to 
sound.  This is pretty much how all the new mixes are done, with few 
exceptions.  You get a huge, enveloping but sometimes cold sound. 
I like mono-mixes myself, just because you get that beautiful muddy tone when 
you do it right.  Its not very powerful like the modern records, but it just 
sounds smoother and warmer to my ears.
Ummm...thats about it.  I'll be 20 in two days.  That sucks cause I was just 
getting used to 19...

Steve C.

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