VM
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…and finally
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VM
Honestly one of the biggest shocks of this all has been learning your name is not Charlie.
…and finally
With not many hours left until the forums close baring any final moderating duties this will (probably) be my final public post on TVForum. Once again my thanks to Asa, Bail, and all of those who've contributed to the forums over the years.
So all that is left for me Keith, aka 'Charlie Wells' in my hideaway in Cambridgeshire is to say farewell. Oh, and so long and thanks for all the fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2CNGiK7sQ
So all that is left for me Keith, aka 'Charlie Wells' in my hideaway in Cambridgeshire is to say farewell. Oh, and so long and thanks for all the fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2CNGiK7sQ
Honestly one of the biggest shocks of this all has been learning your name is not Charlie.
VM
The logo does still look quite contemporary, to be fair, and predicted the trend a few years later for lowercase logos.
Five is a brand
It was definitely the best era of the channel, programming wise. But I think ultimately the change to ‘five’ was a bad idea, if they’d just kept some form of a numeral 5 and not said the full name Channel 5, it might have worked better.The logo does still look quite contemporary, to be fair, and predicted the trend a few years later for lowercase logos.
VM
Yes, the link that descends into algebra, that’s how I feel about a lot of threads on that forum! Audiophiles are a bit crazy (and no I am not one of them) - maybe even crazier than pres enthusiasts?
To be fair the White Album and Abbey Road remixes aren’t that bad, but I really didn’t like the Pepper remix. But I’m too used to the originals now.
Techy radio question
All very fair points VMPhil- I thought I could get geeky about The Beatles!
I was generalising to an extent. There certainly are some tracks where the band and/or George Martin seem to have paid attention to the stereo mix and others which are just really bad. The problem with ‘Day in the Life’ is that once I’ve you’ve heard the mono version of the opening track on that album I wouldn’t want to go back to the (original) stereo.
For me “All You Need is Love” is one of the tracks where the stereo mix just seems to have the levels all wrong, the song not holding together at all- especially at the start.
That link (until it descends into algebra) does give the best suggestion why Rubber Soul in stereo was mixed as it does. I wasn’t aware of that theory before.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the Giles Martin remixes. I like them as an alternative to the mono versions. It’s things like the vocals on ‘Here Comes The Sun’ not being centred on the original mix that slightly irk me, which he then changed. I can live with the extra compression and just go back to the mono (or original stereo in the case of Abbey Road) if I don’t like it.
And that explanation about Rubber Soul even brings things back round to the risk of phasing...
Or maybe in the ‘new place’ we’ll have to have a thread discussing the mono and stereo versions of the Beatles songs
I was generalising to an extent. There certainly are some tracks where the band and/or George Martin seem to have paid attention to the stereo mix and others which are just really bad. The problem with ‘Day in the Life’ is that once I’ve you’ve heard the mono version of the opening track on that album I wouldn’t want to go back to the (original) stereo.
For me “All You Need is Love” is one of the tracks where the stereo mix just seems to have the levels all wrong, the song not holding together at all- especially at the start.
That link (until it descends into algebra) does give the best suggestion why Rubber Soul in stereo was mixed as it does. I wasn’t aware of that theory before.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the Giles Martin remixes. I like them as an alternative to the mono versions. It’s things like the vocals on ‘Here Comes The Sun’ not being centred on the original mix that slightly irk me, which he then changed. I can live with the extra compression and just go back to the mono (or original stereo in the case of Abbey Road) if I don’t like it.
And that explanation about Rubber Soul even brings things back round to the risk of phasing...
Or maybe in the ‘new place’ we’ll have to have a thread discussing the mono and stereo versions of the Beatles songs
Yes, the link that descends into algebra, that’s how I feel about a lot of threads on that forum! Audiophiles are a bit crazy (and no I am not one of them) - maybe even crazier than pres enthusiasts?
To be fair the White Album and Abbey Road remixes aren’t that bad, but I really didn’t like the Pepper remix. But I’m too used to the originals now.
VM
Seconded. Always know I’m in for a treat when Steve posts on here.
Saturday Night Takeaway 2021
I hope you’ll be posting over on the new place Steve. Your insight- and your phenomenal memory of these things- has always added a lot to proceedings.
Seconded. Always know I’m in for a treat when Steve posts on here.
VM
“Most famous for its membership almost entirely composed of people who hate James Martin”
One more time...
https://up.metropol247.co.uk/032021/1616970475_1094222518.mp3
“Most famous for its membership almost entirely composed of people who hate James Martin”
VM
One more time...
The only thing I have to share on here is this old parody graphic I made, back when James Martin was holding a boycott against Metropol, god knows what year?
VM
Amazing picture, but tsk for shatliffing MTV Dance (shoehorning in a couple of old school TVF/Metropol references there)
One more time...
l even have an old photo of my bedroom taken in about 2002 i think with a screenshot of the lounge on the monitor lol
Amazing picture, but tsk for shatliffing MTV Dance (shoehorning in a couple of old school TVF/Metropol references there)