Post #818396 by TexBaxter on Wed, May 27, 2026 7:49 PM

"African Jazz" separates out much better because it's a much better recording.

On the other hand much of "Ritual of the Savage" was just not recorded very well and it's almost impossible to get a good balanced mix because it's less layered than the later albums. Some tracks I may have to use a stereo delay to get a more balanced mix. The drums/percussion track is pretty obnoxious on most tracks I may tame that a bit and push the melodic instruments forward.

When "Ritual" was re-released in 1958 for stereo they just took the mono master and used stereo delays and narrow EQs to create a fake stereo version.

It's a shame we can't get the original CLEAN mono version on CD/download from Capitol because it would sound great. There's a third party release of the mono that is pretty clean (denoised a bit much) but it has a very slight stereo reverb over it. I may use that on some tracks if I can't get clean extracts from the official "stereo" version.

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