by baht habit on Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:11 pm
I am personally quite partial to Fripp's take on Damage, as I feel that he remained true to the live sound of the group while Sylvian went out of his way to create an aesthetically clean and sterile replication of the performance. The ambience of the arena is quite prominent in the mix that Fripp did and so every musician was represented fairly and accurately as a group should be. Also, what Sylvian did to Mastelotto's overall sound was a crime - it is like he was resigned to playing drums in a dingy garage with a cheesy $100 kit while the remainder of the musicians were working with state of the art equipment. All the life and gusto that was evident on Fripp's ballsy mix seems to have gotten lost, and Mastelotto bore the brunt of the neutering done by Sylvian.