Please be aware that YouTube significantly reduces the volume/gain on some of my uploads, depending on the artist. Volume reduction information, and remastering notes can be found in the COMMENTS SECTION.

Using the following as the source media:
Rush – Power Windows
Label: Mercury – 422 826 098-1 M-1, Mercury – 826 098-1 M-1
Format: Vinyl LP, Club Edition, CRC
Country: US
Released: 1985

This is a remastering of "Grand Designs."

Work on POWER WINDOWS was begun at least two years ago, but it began with the original CD version. What I found with that was it was too difficult to work with because of the synthesisers.

By 1985, it seems everyone had discovered bells, and that you could get a synthesiser to play a bell sound. In many octaves. So what happened was, by 1985 everyone went bell crazy. (This is also found on ABC's "How To Be a ... Zillionaire!") And on that CD version of POWER WINDOWS those bells, and other assorted synthesiser augmentations were mixed really high and bright. Toning them down in a fixed mix situation made the rest of everything very muffled.

So I went with the Vinyl LP version, because they were less bright, and as with any recording put to that media, it's much easier for me to "separate" and "define."

The problem with POWER WINDOWS is that the songs on Side 2
("Territories" "Middletown Dreams" "Emotion Detector" "Mystic Rhythms") are much easier to work with than Side 1 ("The Big
Money" "Grand Designs" "Manhattan Project" "Marathon") Why this
is I do not know. It may be a mix issue. It's been noticed on many albums that Side 2 has more volume/gain than Side 1. It may be that. And of the songs on Side 1 that I can make sound like Side 2, "Grand Designs" is the closest I can get. It's a tricky album.

Work continues.


TURNTABLE: Pro-Ject Audio Systems
PHONO BOX: Pro-Ject mm/mc preamplifier
TRANSFER METHOD: behringer UCA222

Rendered to 48,000 Hz, 24 Bit, Stereo, PCM WAV
Audio for Video: 440 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, 24 Bit, Stereo, WMA Pro

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