[squidsoup]

For some genres of music, clean sound is not what you want.

[8bitsrule]

True true. I like the sound of music from the early days of recording ... foxtrots, rags, blues ... that only sound right with that pre-tape, pre-mike ambience. A 'cleaned-up' 1909 version of "Shine on harvest moon" is a crime against humanity. (Like colorizing 'Citizen Kane', or Laurel and Hardy.) That's the way people heard it then. And (up until the depression, anyway) they bought it and danced to it by the millions.

Squeaky-clean 'fidelity' can work against good music. It's like purple fluorescent lights ... antiseptic.

[mnd999]

You want you music to sound less like what was recorded? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

[squidsoup]

I think we're talking across purposes, I was referring to recording on tape.