Studio mixes from the 70s

[Tone2TheBone]

I found an old CD for sale that I'd been thinking about for awhile now. Ted Nugent's Weekend Warriors (love the cover). Anyway I slapped it in the car stereo which happens to put out some good tones and :thwap remembered again why I had to have 10 band EQs in my old cars in high school. MIDRANGE. All midrange. A very lousy mix. I had to boost up the low end and lower the mids to get the effect I wanted and even then it was still pretty bad. I was disapointed. Actually most of Ted's studio mixes are like that for me. Who else hates the midrange of the 70s? I also notice the sound quality in movies during that time are similar. Why why WHY! :nope :)

[msteeln]

Maybe Ted and other hard rockers figured that the listener will crank the stereo and since most people didn't have great stereos that could handle the highs and lows without crapping out the best way to get a decent sound to the masses was to accentuate the mids.
I grew up with bootleg LPs that were often pretty junk sounding.

I always found it best to turn it up and get down!