Every home should have (more than) one: The Live Album to rule them all ...

[Highlander]

... The old triple set's remaster has gotten some stick ...

If you could change anything on the original, would you...?

For me, way up there with TABB@FE... about as perfect as it can get...

[uwe]

Move Blackmore's guitar to the right channel and Lord's organ to the left! And keep Gillan's in between chatter in.

[Highlander]

I recommend reversing your favourite listening chair, and/or putting an "L" sticker over the "R" (and vicky-verky) on your headphones...

[uwe]

 

[Highlander]

It's all part of the service...

[uwe]

I was thinking of putting the CD in the tray upside down? 

[Pilgrim]

I was thinking of putting the CD in the tray upside down? 

Just remember to rewind when you're done with it.   

[hieronymous]

I actually heard that it's a difference in European & American approaches - one is as if you are looking at the stage, one is as if you are on stage. I don't think it's as simple as European vs. American - in fact, on Genesis Live (from 1973) it flips around throughout the album, sometimes mid-song! I spent my teenage years with headphones practically glued on...

[uwe]

When I hear Deep Purple I just imagine seeing Ritchie Blackmore, I don't (yet) imagine to be him!!!  And Blackers always stands right (view to stage from audience).

[gearHed289]

I've always preferred "looking at the stage" mixes. Van Halen I still bugs me. 

[uwe]

As a child of the sixties I'm a hopeless fan of extremely left/right panned mixes that went out of fashion many decades ago. I love it when there is one guitar on the right and another one distinctly on the left.

I even prefer those extremely panned stereo mixes of the early Beatles where the music is on one side and the vocals on the other to the "more serious" mono mixes. When I hear Nowhere Man (stereo mix) with that hilariously separated extreme-wide panning it always draws a smile to my face and gives me a warm feeling in my tummy. It is how I consciously experienced the Beatles the first time and it made me understand what "stereo" means. I found it fascinating at the time.

I've had countless incidents in the studio when panning mixes of our demos and the engineers get grey hairs and say "It's already panned enough, Uwe, no one, absolutely no one pans like that anymore!". 

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Stereo and intense panning lose out to engineers afraid of phasing killing volume. Unfortunately most money-making music is disposable, but its dictates still hold sway over lots of people trying to make recordings of substance, because it could always be "just that one little thing" that helps a song find an audience. I like hard pans, too.

[hieronymous]

When I hear Deep Purple I just imagine seeing Ritchie Blackmore, I don't (yet) imagine to be him!!!  And Blackers always stands right (view to stage from audience).

I would usually visualize myself as either Roger Glover or Glenn Hughes! (Or Chris Squier or Geddy Lee or...)

[uwe]

Never one of the Purple bassists (they are sacred!  ). I'd visualize myself as Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash). I thought he was an ultra-cool frontman without being an overbearing one.

And Jim Lea a liitle bit. He seemed so musicianly in a band of rabblerousers.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I'm the same way Uwe. Listening to old Metallica, I NEVER envisioned myself as Cliff, but I was THERE growling out every word with Het. That's why the first time I heard Pantera, I was floored, Phil Anselmo actually sounded as pissed-off as I felt. Having music I like underneath that made it even better. Now when I hear something good my thought process is: Can I play that? Would I WANT to play that? How would I put MY twist on that? and I don't care what people think, I like Lady Gaga!