[bomp] Re: Metal Machine Nightfly

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

<< Typical answers include the hoary _The Nightfly_ by Donald Fagen. >>

That's an awful answer in SEVERAL ways, actually... 

Skipping the obvious value judgement, of course,  ;)  that kind of music 
isn't going to help you tune the room for a rock and roll show, or pretty-much any 
other kind of show either.  The instrumentation, the way it's mic'ed, the way 
it's played...all of it is completely foreign to what will actually go on in 
the room later.  The only thing you can accomplish by using "The Nightfly" in 
every room you visit is to find out where the peaks and dips in resonance are 
REFERENCED TO THE NIGHTFLY.

(Pardon me, Andy, I know you know this stuff, I'm talking to everybody else.)

The other reason it's an awful choice:  even big fans of that album have to 
admit, and have always complained, that it's one of the worst-mastered CDs of 
all time, second only to the original issue of "Aqualung."  Sounds like it's 
underwater.

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