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Was just reading the "made in the box room" thread and it sparked an idea for this thread.

Which Northern Soul records do you consider to be the best recordings in terms of overall sound quality?

Which records have got the deepest, cleanest bass? The punchiest snare? The zingiest strings or the loudest horns? Any labels that consistently put out well engineered stuff? Maybe we should limit suggestions to the '60's, before the technology leapt.

If "Time's a wasting" is one of the worst (dull, muddy, no bass) , which are the best for you?

I'll kick you off with one off the top of my head that always make the speakers shake, though I guess it's late sixties pedigree explains it:

Don Varner - Tear Stained Face

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ooh mine would have to be....

THE FESTIVALS - CHECKIN' OUT - BLUE ROCK.....in fact most of the blue rock stuff is well put together...but this track has it all for me.....storming horn section...punchy base line...and stunning vocals complete wiv me fave male wooooooo woooo eeeee babeeee type fingies :lol:

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Was just reading the "made in the box room" thread and it sparked an idea for this thread.

Which Northern Soul records do you consider to be the best recordings in terms of overall sound quality?

Which records have got the deepest, cleanest bass? The punchiest snare? The zingiest strings or the loudest horns? Any labels that consistently put out well engineered stuff? Maybe we should limit suggestions to the '60's, before the technology leapt.

If "Time's a wasting" is one of the worst (dull, muddy, no bass) , which are the best for you?

I'll kick you off with one off the top of my head that always make the speakers shake, though I guess it's late sixties pedigree explains it:

Don Varner - Tear Stained Face

Hi ,for me "PIED PIPER" PRODUCTION = QUALITY :lol: ATB Steve
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Most of the major label stuff is good quality, RCA, Phillips subsidiaries, out of the independents motown is generally very well produced. A lot of the independent stuff is highly variable in quality. (bloody hell, that was a bit obvious wasn't it?!)

Top tip if you have an amp with a mono button do use it on your mono records, the backgrounds noise is massively reduced as you drop out a whole unused and unmodulated groove on your records, its an uncut surface that just introduces noise with a modern micro stylus that attempts to track the whole groove.

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ooh mine would have to be....

THE FESTIVALS - CHECKIN' OUT - BLUE ROCK.....in fact most of the blue rock stuff is well put together...but this track has it all for me.....storming horn section...punchy base line...and stunning vocals complete wiv me fave male wooooooo woooo eeeee babeeee type fingies :lol:

cookie :lol:

Tony Diamond "Don't Turn Away" - brill Blue Rock cut.

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Was just reading the "made in the box room" thread and it sparked an idea for this thread.

Which Northern Soul records do you consider to be the best recordings in terms of overall sound quality?

Which records have got the deepest, cleanest bass? The punchiest snare? The zingiest strings or the loudest horns? Any labels that consistently put out well engineered stuff? Maybe we should limit suggestions to the '60's, before the technology leapt.

If "Time's a wasting" is one of the worst (dull, muddy, no bass) , which are the best for you?

I'll kick you off with one off the top of my head that always make the speakers shake, though I guess it's late sixties pedigree explains it:

Don Varner - Tear Stained Face

Most of the RCA stuff has the lot, top production, big orchestra, and normally first class vocals,

Freddie Paris , There she goes. Willie Kendricks , Change your ways. etc, etc.

Steve

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Think it's early 70s (71, 72?) but Patti Austin's version of 'Didn't Say A Word' has incredible instrumentation - great tune to listen to through headphones and hear all those different lines going on at the same time :thumbsup:

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Always thought "The Panic is On" had great clarity and production, obviously being on a major like MGM you expect such things.

While i'm here another interesting point, the Blue Rock recordings of Dee Dee Warwick compared to the Mercury Lp release of her 45 's....the fidelity on the Blue Rock is far inferior to the aforementioned Mercury release.

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Always thought "The Panic is On" had great clarity and production, obviously being on a major like MGM you expect such things.

While i'm here another interesting point, the Blue Rock recordings of Dee Dee Warwick compared to the Mercury Lp release of her 45 's....the fidelity on the Blue Rock is far inferior to the aforementioned Mercury release.

ooh yer soooooooooo picky lol

cookie :thumbsup:

ooh yer soooooooooo picky lol

cookie :thumbsup:

oops forgot to say...panic is on,,,,,chooooooooooooon

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ooh mine would have to be....

THE FESTIVALS - CHECKIN' OUT - BLUE ROCK.....in fact most of the blue rock stuff is well put together...but this track has it all for me.....storming horn section...punchy base line...and stunning vocals complete wiv me fave male wooooooo woooo eeeee babeeee type fingies :thumbsup:

cookie :thumbsup:

Flippin eck Cookie, Blue Rock, bloody awfull styrene = terrible quality on most of the ones I've owned. As are Phillips, Mercury etc. Best must be Brunswick, RCA, DECCA, AMAZING QUALITY for 60s 45s

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