Bonkers wrote:Ok, Crockett, let me try to explain what I was talking about on your post.
I have Super Eurobeat vol. 22, which came out in 1992. The volume is sooooo low on that CD, I have to turn it up twice as loud as other discs. This leads me to notice that some tracks, there is a bass, and other tracks are flat. Then, I notice Virginelle-Up & Down. It's loud, it's crisp, and it has a hard bass to it, and it's like, "Why aren't all the tracks from the same label this loud, crisp, and mastered nicely?"
This leads me to other 90s tracks: Some have great bass (ABeatC/Hi-NRG Attack, Vibration, 3B), and others seem to be just a flat snare drum (Time). Delta falls in the middle because some tracks were great, and some are sound like they are being played from inside a trashcan.
This issue has been talked about before, that it comes down to the mastering. I will say Eurobeat CDs have the most odd mastering....It's like, one volume sounds loud and crisp, then the next volume sounds cloudy.
In my personal opinion, Vol. 230 and Vol. 240 have been the BEST audio mastered volumes. Everything is crisp, clear, and it's like "Is this what the actual song has always sounded like? Even in the 90s? Or has it always been due to poor mastering?"
Yeah. You have to change the volume level on some CDs, whatever for example, to louder when they're from 80's ad 90's, or when the record company is different. This is how the CDs were pressed before loudness war. Actually no problem right? You have to use one knob.
I understand the explanation, but looks like it's your subjective lack of bass or its insufficient level, perchaps due to personal exceptations looking from 2016 to down, not up from 1988?
That's why I can't find what receive your ears.
SEB Vol. 22 is the summary, flashback of 1991. May be considered by fans with totally different exceptations, which like Eurobeat over 2000, 2005, 2010 as the most boring. Indeed, this part of Eurobeat music was based on the old italian standards, hated somewhere else.
However I agree, there was simple very similar backgroud, no effects, but that is the drums style which started in 1990 and finished in 1992. The pure old-school Hi-NRG called by Italo Disco fans by the word "energy".
Virginelle "Up & Down" is for you special? Possibly may be here some slight difference. The author was A. Leonardi without G. Pasquini.
Whether Robert Stone has smaller bass? Kill me, I can't feel it.
These all tracks have "magic" thanks to the high beat level on the quite naked arrangement.
Later the scheme of drums was changed but before the loudness war, also in 2000, Avex Trax, another record companies hadn't such troubles on original CDs, which I heard on SEB Vol. 240.
The bass which demolished my walls all the decade before 2000, on the latest mix knocking like inside some cardboard box. I'm not specjalist, but too much I compared. Neither mastering due to the natural CD loudness and the year of publishing, no matter who pressed a disc, wasn't before so muffled.
We can analize this next day and express our feelings, but I never supposed what will happen with the former genious sound, when I will decide to buy new Avex Trax release.
I have no money for hyper expensive collectable rare old records and parallel news, but I will revise my willingness, whether buy Vol. 241.
