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Hey,
A friend gave me a copy of Big Country's LP "The Crossing". I'd heard "In a Big Country" on the radio many times but never the album. Anyhow, I dropped the needle on the first track - "In a Big Country" and was amazed at how narrow the soundstage was. Like, every instrument and vocal seemed to shmushed into a 4-foot wide corridor of sound, not even stretching out to where the speakers were.

What gives?It was just this album as I put on other LP's and they imaged wide and deep as usual. Is it a production artifact? Could it have been that pressing?
simao

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onhwy61
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I wasn't at the recording, the mix down or the mastering sessions, but I'm going to speculate.  What you hear is exactly what they wanted the song to sound like.  Dense and loud.  Kind of like an assault to your ears.  Reducing the stereo width lends to this effect.

Steve Lillywhite was the producer.  Compare it to his work with U2.


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onhwy61
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Simao, you heard it, Ruebent heard it and I heard it.  We all heard it exactly as you described.  Only one person is telling you that it's your system/room.
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