Many AAD CDs sound great but certain ones are pretty poor. As far as I know the vast majority of 1980s SST releases were originally analogue recordings.
I don't know who was responsible for SST's digital CD masters in the 1980s but my guess would be that they either did it themselves with a low end setup, or they contracted a poor quality facility to do it for them. My understanding is that SST's vinyl releases sounded better - I've heard some of the original SST Husker Du vinyl pressings on YouTube and the EQ definitely sounds less harsh than on their CD counterparts. Grant Hart's 1989 album Intolerance was also issued by SST and it is a very early CD to use brickwall compression on some tracks. The SST CD of Dinosaur Jr's You're Living All Over Me doesn't sound thin in the way that some of the SST Husker Du CDs did, though it does sound pretty muddy and low-fi (I think this may have just been the recording though). The SST-era Husker Du CDs are very thin sounding (Flip Your Wig is the best sounding SST Husker Du CD, while New Day Rising is probably the worst). In some cases I find that some of the thinner sounding 1980s CD masters can sound better by turning up the bass frequencies by a small number of dB.Ĭlick to expand.If I had to go with one of the worst labels for CD mastering in the 1980s, I'd name SST. Some 1980s CDs were a little overly trebly sounding, but since these discs almost always have little to no compression, you can easily re-EQ them. Greg Norton's bass on the 1984 recording of Celebrated Summer rang out when I played my 1980s-mastered Husker Du New Day Rising CD on this player, yet the recording sounds awful and has virtually no bass on most modern devices. While it was working, it played old CDs with a lot of bass compared with most other players I'd heard, and sounded very like a Technics turntable in the way it reproduced the sound of these old discs (CDs mastered from 1982-1991 vs their vinyl counterparts). Several years ago I bought a secondhand Technics CD player from about 1992, and it sadly stopped working (no feedback from the drive after interting discs) just a few months later. Click to expand.A lot of 1980s CDs are a little lacking in bass on most modern systems, though I think this may be because newer systems are designed mostly to behave well with brickwalled recordings.
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