I'd always been disappointed with this disc and out of interest I thought I'd check it out in Audacity (I converted from dsd to flac). Not sure if this has been discussed before but I think there are some technical reasons why this sounds so odd? I don't think it's down to the actual mixing philosophy...
On
Wonderwall for instance, the centre and LFE channels are the wrong way around?! There's just a cello in the LFE channel and the bass is mixed into the centre with a low vocal. On all the other tracks the bass goes to the sub - which makes sense! I think this could also explain the weird opening vocal in the centre as well? I think
it was meant to be sent the fronts but something got fooked up...
I did a little bit of boshing things around - mixed the intro vocal into the fronts and swapped the centre/LFE. It seems a lot more balanced now... It's not perfect but a start...
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Haven't had a chance to look into anything further yet... But it does give me hope this album in multichannel might be resurrected somehow? I've read about some excellent 'fixes' on QQ and perhaps some peeps with more knowledge might be able to help? As I said before I think from
She's Electric onwards (9-12) it sounds alright...
This album is an all time classic for me, and I'm
MAD FOR IT to sound good in multichannel!