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This for the 80s albums, after that get Fear of the Dark, Dance of Death, and The X Factor. Avoid Number of the Beast, haven’t heard the debut.
Yax
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2015. For instance, the nasty resonating harmonics of the 2khz area of the vocals is fixed.
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
I like the recent 180-gram vinyl reissues of Brave New World and Dance of Death, and I think they sound better and more dynamic than the original CDs, which were pretty badly compressed. Same with Rock In Rio. As for AMOLAD through Book of Souls, I’ve only really spent time with the original CDs, I think they sound fine, but I don’t know if the remasters are an improvement. The original CD of AMOLAD in particular was supposedly “unmastered,” which I think just means they didn’t futz with the EQ much. Whatever, it resulted in a warmer, more natural sound than the previous reunion releases. You still have Caveman’s rather muddy production, but no remaster can really fix that.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
Basically, Shirley just put some finalizing compression and limiting to bring the overall level up, rather than having a mastering engineer multiband compressing it (one compressor band for the low end, one for the low mid, one for the upper and one for the top band, all compressing their spectral part of the mix individually) and squashing it to death like i.e. TBOS to have a super cool extra loud CD.
I think the AMOLAD vinyl reissue is an improvement though. Peak wise it's more dynamic (although the bus compression is tighter, not necessarily a bad thing) and extended low and top end. The original is roughly 2.5dB louder than the vinyl when ripped and normalized.
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Went flying again tonight, with one of the club mates. Another of them took the other Cub and joined us, bringing his daughter as passenger.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
... and managed to fly her airsick.
Like my all time favourite headline: "Four Deck Header Here'.
And there's not even a statement from Iron Maiden yet. Pathetic.
Seriously, big loss, UFO always had a sweet bass sound.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Julian Bream died yesterday too - my Mum's favourite guitarist.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Local press is the best for funny moments 
I was watching a live stream of the football match between FRedrikstad FK and the rivals from neighbour town Halden* (FK Kvik Halden). Everyone expected a tight game, Kvik were top of the table before the game with a superior goal difference. But between the 17th and the 28th minute, Fredrikstad had more or less killed the game and were 4-0 up!
The commentators were from Halden and they had obviously lost all enthusiasm well before half time. So what did it take to get them going in the 90th minute, with a 1-5 scoreline?
A big wasp in the commentator's box! "I've never seen a wasp that big" ... "It's almost the size of a seagull" ... "fortunately, it went away ...."
I was watching a live stream of the football match between FRedrikstad FK and the rivals from neighbour town Halden* (FK Kvik Halden). Everyone expected a tight game, Kvik were top of the table before the game with a superior goal difference. But between the 17th and the 28th minute, Fredrikstad had more or less killed the game and were 4-0 up!
The commentators were from Halden and they had obviously lost all enthusiasm well before half time. So what did it take to get them going in the 90th minute, with a 1-5 scoreline?
A big wasp in the commentator's box! "I've never seen a wasp that big" ... "It's almost the size of a seagull" ... "fortunately, it went away ...."
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
No quotes from Steve or Bruce? Pathetic.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Did nobody ask Nicko at the snooker what he thought of whatever it is we're saying Maiden haven't said something quickly enough about?
I maintain that Maiden's publicity and marketing operation is done on the back of a soggy beermat, and a cheap Wetherspoons one at that.
He's been cold for 12 hours now, what is taking so long, I cannot believe they haven't commented!!!!
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Today I had my first flight in a nosewheel aircraft since early June ... brought my brother and one of our aunts for a short flight in a Cessna. Right after we started the engine, my brother had trouble closing the window on the passenger side. Fortunately, another club member happened to be passing by and had a screwdriver ready, with which he tightened the loose screw that was blocking the window from closing.
We also witnessed the usefulness of ambulance helicopters being painted bright yellow as that allowed us to quite easily spot one that was flying on a course parallel to ours for several miles.
We also witnessed the usefulness of ambulance helicopters being painted bright yellow as that allowed us to quite easily spot one that was flying on a course parallel to ours for several miles.