Return to Zero - bad quality, or how it was meant to sound?

[seventieslord]

Return to Zero, even when mastered to CD on Coupled With, sounds like garbage. But, by that standard, so does everything on Endless, Nameless, and that was intentional.

So, I ask for your opinions again - does RTZ sound so muddy/fuzzy/badly mixed/distorted intentionally, or does it have something to do with the fact that it began as a vinyl-only track and was brought to CD? Better than Cable is another such track, but it sounds crystal clear on CD.

[nuno75]

You think it sounds rough on Couple With? You should check out the version on Riff After Riff. You'd swear there's something wrong with your stereo.

I can't really say why it's like that... but I have a pretty strong feeling that the "good version on Coupled With is actually a super-tweaked version of the really muffled one from Riff After Riff. I think they somehow got stuck with a shitty master and had to do what they could with that.

[seventieslord]

You think it sounds rough on Couple With? You should check out the version on Riff After Riff. You'd swear there's something wrong with your stereo.

I can't really say why it's like that... but I have a pretty strong feeling that the "good version on Coupled With is actually a super-tweaked version of the really muffled one from Riff After Riff. I think they somehow got stuck with a shitty master and had to do what they could with that.

I kinda thought that too. It wouldn't have even crossed my mind that it was unintentional, except for the fact that it was originally a vinly-only song.

[Assmask]

Yeah, but it works tho!

[blackdeathcrew]

I like the fact that it sounds that way personally. Think it adds something extra to the song

[tyladog]

Sounds intentional to me.