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Post by Victor on Aug 28, 2019 16:53:29 GMT
You’ve surprised me there, as I knew QPQ was recorded using their old recording techniques, but it sounds great to me, it’s got that live feel, compressed or not. They sound like they enjoy playing it. However they recorded RTYD it’s sounds very flat to me, almost like the much maligned Rockin all over the World album, virtually no reverb etc. Thankyou for your input though, enjoyed reading it👍🏻 Nice to see someone else enjoys QPQ. So do I !
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Post by musiktruhe on Aug 28, 2019 17:05:13 GMT
For me QPQ sounds flat and not like a band product.
The Rock Til You Drop and The Riffs album are for me the best sounding albums since Never Too Late what I have heard until today the new album will not change this.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Aug 28, 2019 17:38:50 GMT
You’ve surprised me there, as I knew QPQ was recorded using their old recording techniques, but it sounds great to me, it’s got that live feel, compressed or not. They sound like they enjoy playing it. However they recorded RTYD it’s sounds very flat to me, almost like the much maligned Rockin all over the World album, virtually no reverb etc. Thankyou for your input though, enjoyed reading it👍🏻 That surprises me as it sounds terrible to me. Polished and over produced. Sounds completely sterile. The band said they recorded and produced it like Piledriver, Hello etc. With them all going for it in the studio, That’s what gives the life and vibe. I get that you don’t like it, but it was successful and as always .... it’s a matter of opinions
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Post by durango95 on Aug 28, 2019 18:24:50 GMT
If leaving out the content of an album and just listen to how it sounds (if that makes any sense), RTYD is by far the best album the band have recorded since the BFY album imho...
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Aug 28, 2019 19:09:07 GMT
For me QPQ sounds flat and not like a band product. The Rock Til You Drop and The Riffs album are for me the best sounding albums since Never Too Late what I have heard until today the new album will not change this. It will be good when Riffs is our album of the month so I have an excuse to listen to it again! From memory, yes, the sound at least was good... Never quite could make up my mind about the RTYD sound, yes it's a huge improvement on the four albums before it, but to my ears there's something just not right with Francis Tele. Was it a Tele he used?
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Aug 28, 2019 19:11:34 GMT
Probs me bein thick, I just don't get this compression thing at all!
I do know there was a stink over Metallica's Death Magnetic CD. I thought it sounded great (but a shame about most of the songs!)
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 28, 2019 19:34:46 GMT
I'm still angry at ZZ Top for their follow up to Eliminator, Recycler. Apart from "Doubleback" and especially "My Head's in Mississippi" which were decent. Erm, the sequel to Eliminator (1983) was Afterburner (1985). Then came Recycler (1990). Which is still the last ZZ Top album on which I like more than half of the songs (aside from the ones you've mentioned I also like 2000 Blues, Give It Up, Concrete and Steel, Lovething, Penthouse Eyes and Decision or Collision). La Futura is what I was talking about, some potential there, but horrendous sound - really can't listen to the CD. Only live I was able to appreciate how good "I Gotsta Get Paid" really is (and Dusty played a bass synth, yay!). Of the ‘modern’ Quo, Rock til you Drop was For me the worst recording techniques used since Back to. Back. RTYD sounded compressed, their wasn’t a really good live sound to it, and at certain points Rossi’s guitar sounded like a xylophone. I still find it a very difficult listen. Quid Pro Quo was by for the best sound I think I’ve heard since NTL and the songs were quality as well, which for all these reasons I think it did so well I’m the charts That's funny because it was the first time they went back to recording it live, mostly all together in one room, since the glory days. ITAN and AC especially were "constructed" records with quite a bit of sequencing going on. Sound quality wise there was nothing wrong with them though. RTYD came at a time when guitars were in fashion again, and when CDs started getting louder. I don't really have an issue with it. It's certainly far less heavily compressed as QPQ, which is a bona fide loudness war victim: dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/9461 (RTYD) dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/9478 (QPQ) Technically a follow up.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Aug 28, 2019 19:37:33 GMT
For me QPQ sounds flat and not like a band product. The Rock Til You Drop and The Riffs album are for me the best sounding albums since Never Too Late what I have heard until today the new album will not change this. It will be good when Riffs is our album of the month so I have an excuse to listen to it again! From memory, yes, the sound at least was good... Never quite could make up my mind about the RTYD sound, yes it's a huge improvement on the four albums before it, but to my ears there's something just not right with Francis Tele. Was it a Tele he used? There was sommat going on with Rossi’s tele(if that was the guitar being played), it was a sort of flat sustain that almost sounded keyboard-like. About half that album is pretty good compared to what went before, but there was a whiff of lack of ideas re-recording old songs. The only time a band usually goes down that road is when they are padding it out. Those old enough might remember Rick Frame weren’t getting on great around this time.. One Man Band, anybody remember that?
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Post by daipembs on Aug 28, 2019 19:47:30 GMT
I'll be totally honest, I didn't understand a word of that but it sounded impressive. 😂😂😂
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Post by Quoincidence on Aug 28, 2019 20:04:52 GMT
It will be good when Riffs is our album of the month so I have an excuse to listen to it again! From memory, yes, the sound at least was good... Never quite could make up my mind about the RTYD sound, yes it's a huge improvement on the four albums before it, but to my ears there's something just not right with Francis Tele. Was it a Tele he used? There was sommat going on with Rossi’s tele(if that was the guitar being played), it was a sort of flat sustain that almost sounded keyboard-like. About half that album is pretty good compared to what went before, but there was a whiff of lack of ideas re-recording old songs. The only time a band usually goes down that road is when they are padding it out. Those old enough might remember Rick Frame weren’t getting on great around this time.. One Man Band, anybody remember that?Could either be his Tele or the G&L that he had at the time... And in regards to that comment, Rick really seemed to be fronting the band at this point in regards to interviews and things like that. Recently been watching a lot of interviews and promo work from around the time of the RTYD album / Event, and Rick is mainly doing the talking whereas Rossi tends to piss around and grab the interviewers attention... which really ticked Rick off. Also happened during the limo journey from the BBC studios to the airport where Rossi interrupted Rick talking to Cheryl Baker and he just turned looked out of the window and said "Go on Rick" to Rossi
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 28, 2019 20:13:37 GMT
You’ve surprised me there, as I knew QPQ was recorded using their old recording techniques, but it sounds great to me, it’s got that live feel, compressed or not. They sound like they enjoy playing it. However they recorded RTYD it’s sounds very flat to me, almost like the much maligned Rockin all over the World album, virtually no reverb etc. Thankyou for your input though, enjoyed reading it👍🏻 Nice to see someone else enjoys QPQ. So do I ! Reported to the mods.
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Post by paradiseflats on Aug 29, 2019 6:37:15 GMT
That surprises me as it sounds terrible to me. Polished and over produced. Sounds completely sterile. The band said they recorded and produced it like Piledriver, Hello etc. With them all going for it in the studio, That’s what gives the life and vibe. I get that you don’t like it, but it was successful and as always .... it’s a matter of opinions The ‘band’ say all sorts of things when an album is released. Just as Francis has said with Backbone that he was unhappy with how the most recent albums have sounded. As a result he says he produced the album. You really believe they recorded it in the same manner as Piledriver. It was ‘successful’ you are correct it’s a matter of opinions. How many ‘singles’ did the album have and not one charted.
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Post by gav on Aug 29, 2019 14:54:12 GMT
I think Francis changed the pick-ups on his Tele prior to this album and after AW was recorded. The exact details escape me though.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Aug 30, 2019 17:18:00 GMT
The band said they recorded and produced it like Piledriver, Hello etc. With them all going for it in the studio, That’s what gives the life and vibe. I get that you don’t like it, but it was successful and as always .... it’s a matter of opinions The ‘band’ say all sorts of things when an album is released. Just as Francis has said with Backbone that he was unhappy with how the most recent albums have sounded. As a result he says he produced the album. You really believe they recorded it in the same manner as Piledriver. It was ‘successful’ you are correct it’s a matter of opinions. How many ‘singles’ did the album have and not one charted. That’s how the album was made, there’s footage of them all together in the studio, they talked about how they played together like they did back in the day, there’s foot age of the interviews. would they go to so much trouble to prove a point 99% of the buying public wouldn’t care less about? It also comes across in the music. And the album top 10, am not quite sure what the problem Is, just because a supposedly old fashioned recording technique worked..so what? It produced a great sound and was a success, I don’t see a problem here really?
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Post by paradiseflats on Aug 30, 2019 17:49:04 GMT
The ‘band’ say all sorts of things when an album is released. Just as Francis has said with Backbone that he was unhappy with how the most recent albums have sounded. As a result he says he produced the album. You really believe they recorded it in the same manner as Piledriver. It was ‘successful’ you are correct it’s a matter of opinions. How many ‘singles’ did the album have and not one charted. That’s how the album was made, there’s footage of them all together in the studio, they talked about how they played together like they did back in the day, there’s foot age of the interviews. would they go to so much trouble to prove a point 99% of the buying public wouldn’t care less about? It also comes across in the music. And the album top 10, am not quite sure what the problem Is, just because a supposedly old fashioned recording technique worked..so what? It produced a great sound and was a success, I don’t see a problem here really? It’s clear you don’t understand. Which is fair enough. You things I don’t. You enjoy it, and in there is your truth. If you think they sat in a circle jamming like they did when the lineup was different. You are welcome to believe that.
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