https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 05 May 2026 03:09:23 +0000 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:15:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7641 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7641&PID=38884&title=j-geils-band-freezeframe#38884 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7641
Posted: 19 August 2013 at 8:15pm

The promo 45 is a very simple edit of the LP/commercial 45
version. My timings are from EMI's Freeze-Frame:

Remove the 32 beats, starting on a snare, from 3:17.4 to
3:27.7.

The mixdown will run about 3:47, with the one edit at 3:17.]]> Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:15:25 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7641&PID=38884&title=j-geils-band-freezeframe#38884 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7641&PID=38883&title=j-geils-band-freezeframe#38883 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7641
Posted: 19 August 2013 at 7:55pm

I think I found three different analog transfers for "Freeze-Frame".

The Freeze-Frame CD on EMI sounds really good to my ears. Probably the best-sounding disc of the bunch. The same analog transfer is used for the promo 50-CD set The A List Disc 11 (1994), which sounds surprisingly good and doesn't have any noise reduction.

I think EMI's Flashback The Best Of (1985) uses higher-generation source tapes than Freeze-Frame. There are some discs that use the same analog transfer as Flashback:

• Priority's Eighties Greatest Rock Hits Vol. 3 Arena Rock (1992; too loud and clips a lot)
• Time-Life's Rolling Stone Collection 1982-1986 (1993)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Vol. 5 1982 (1994; differently EQ'd digital clone of Priority disc)
• Big Ear Music's Only In The 80's Vol. 1 (1995)
• Disky's 8-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s Disc 7 (1998)
• Simitar's Number Ones Rock It Up (1998)

There's another analog transfer on Warner Special Products' 2-CD Good Times (1991), which is about on par with Flashback. The same analog transfer is used for:

• Razor & Tie's 2-CD Awesome '80s (1994)
• Warner Special Products' 2-CD Rock Box (1994)
• Madacy's Rock On 1982 (1996; digitally exactly 1.5 dB louder)

I don't have Rhino's 2-CD Houseparty Anthology (1993), but I'm willing to bet that it sounds better than everything else. Until a copy falls into my lap, I'll go with EMI's Freeze-Frame.

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