This a spinoff thread reg Micmac/Cutting records

[budman]

I know that there is a thread reg the downfall of micmac and Cutting, but how many peeps here think that cutting productions sounded more solid as oppose to micmac where I notice back in my early days of dj had a lot treble, or highs, whatever they are called, and cutting sounded much raw, stronger, (hopefully I am making sense) more deep, bassier....
I used to make a lot of tapes, and whenever I would take a micmac record I would have to do a lot of adjustments on my eq, if not the tapes would come out w/ alot treble, so I started buying metal tapes, to reduce the treble, and cutting was differednt I did not have that problem, it wasnt until later on that Micmac improved its sound quality,,,,,but on another note, whenever OS would produce Soave, his songs did not sound w/ all that treble, does it depend on the producer and what they use to produce...I hope I made sense, but does anyone here know what I am talking about...LOL>>

 

[Ivan Diller]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I used to have problems making mix tapes back in the day because of too much treble. One that particularly caused me headaches was Fascination's "Remember," where every time she sang a word with the letter "s" in it, it sounded like she had a lisp because of all the static.

 

[Kenny Guido]

I always had those problems too. i came to the conclusion that not everybody had the equiptment.

 

[SantanaTwins]

about the sound

Just a little info

The sound on vinyl was more a product of where MICMAC and Cutting did their Mastering and how many minutes were recorded on the vinyl.

Mastering , as we say in the industry , can make or break a record. Every mastering engineer has his own sound and labels usually use the same mastering engineer on most of their releases. If you look at the credits on the label, you will most likely see the same name appear on more then one MIcMac for mastering. As you will on cutting. If I'm not mistaken, Herb Powers mastered many of cutting's records back in the day. He was one of the best and still is.

As for the vinyl itself, its a matter of space. To keep the grooves deep and sounding better you shouldn't go over 12 minutes on one side of a 12". Since many of MICMAC's singles had multiple versions, I'm sure the one's that sound lower are the ones with more then 12 minutes on a side.😉

 

[budman]

To the santana twins, thanks for the info, by the way are you the guys that put an album back around late 1990s that Jason tomi and Susana Santiago, she did a cover of the India salsa song Ese Hombre que tu ves ahi,,,,that version was hot,,,I lost that cd,,,,,is there any way I can repurchase that cd....