Slitherjump

Yeah I'm wondering about that too. Did they find a workaround to have the identical program?

Oh I haven't heard of that expression before my bad

I think I know what they're talking about but I'm not sure of the terminology for this or very familiar with the subject so correct me if I'm completely wrong on any of this to those that are more familiar with the process. Sometimes older masters can't be read because the tape is stuck with itself and it can't be used at all, so the solution I've heard they used for music elements is putting the tape in an oven to loosen it. It seems to work pretty well most of the time but unless we're taking Mike too literally here, it seems the distortion was a defect originated from baking the tape. This technique doesn't always make the tapes better tho with little to no detractors, I've heard in the FSM forums that Vertigo's music tapes were put through that same process and as a result the tape disintegrated because of how sensitive it was but I have never been able to found the source behind that claim so I'm not sure if it's legit. Again if we misinterpreted what Mike said and it was just a figure of speech and it has nothing to do with that process then it's probably the result of tape being 50 years old and in probably less then ideal storage conditions.

Unfortunately the distortion is still there and very noticeable to some people and there is so much Mike can do to fix this issue. It was briefly discussed here. Basil Wrathbone: The clip still exhibits the unfortunate outburst of distortion (overload?) in "To Thornfield" that is on previous releases. Maybe there's a very small improvement, but it's still distracting, particularly with headphones. But... I notice the newly-released alternative "bonus" version of that track does NOT have that burst of distortion. Was it not possible to work some additional Matessino magic and adjust/stitch-in the corresponding small section from the clean alternative version, to replace that bit in the main program that was distorted? MM: I addressed as much as I could but it is baked in to the album master. I'm still getting this set regardless tho I'm sure he made improvements in other ways

Wow I didn't know there were this many issues with that release. The only one I knew about was the issue with the end credits track and I gotta ask can crackling sounds be fixed? I thought problems like that were impossible to fix, at least with the technology we have today. I vaguely remember the guy who worked on that release saying there was nothing he could do to remove the issue

Where did they say that? I don't recall them saying that and I can't find that claim on the FSM boards from last year. Was it a comment on their Facebook?

Shoot just noticed now that the FSM thread is now locked from new comments. Really hoping nothing more gets revoked from LLL resulting of revealing that information

$225

Following up on a previous conversation, I took the phase issue complaint to their forum, and they said that the team doesn't hear any issues and the vibrato is part of the performance http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9055