@lowrider57 ,
Thanks for the 'inside' information - mystery solved.
The fact that they can tweak the sound for broadcast probably renders it impossible for the OP to get a commercial equivalent of his preferred version of The Joshua Tree.
The fact that they sometimes actually improve it can also be a little frustrating when the supposedly official version fails to match up.
I've experienced similar situations where I wanted a recording of a certain song from a film only to find the version on the official soundtrack album significantly worse sounding and/or edited/ truncated.
[Elvis Presley's Wooden Heart from G.I. Blues and Oom-Pah-Pah from Oliver! are two examples, but there are numerous others.]
In the end I would sometimes resort to downloading the music off the preferred YouTube clip and then fixing it in Audacity if required.
In this laborious way I've managed to back up quite a few of my preferred versions of favourite recordings over the years to a USB stick. Before anyone asks, yes I have also backed that USB up to a hard drive.
@arcticdeth,
I sometimes do the same thing with MP3Gain if the CD is recorded a little too hot for its own good.
It kind of works but then I worry that I've destroyed the precise balance that was intended, as MP3Gain tends to average out the differences in volume between the various tracks
Or if I can I just try to find a better mastering.
On a side note - one of my friends bought all the remastered Scott Walker albums (1-4 and maybe Til the Band Comes In, I think) to replace his originals only to later have to admit his mistake and then go back and find copies of the originals!
Thanks for the 'inside' information - mystery solved.
The fact that they can tweak the sound for broadcast probably renders it impossible for the OP to get a commercial equivalent of his preferred version of The Joshua Tree.
The fact that they sometimes actually improve it can also be a little frustrating when the supposedly official version fails to match up.
I've experienced similar situations where I wanted a recording of a certain song from a film only to find the version on the official soundtrack album significantly worse sounding and/or edited/ truncated.
[Elvis Presley's Wooden Heart from G.I. Blues and Oom-Pah-Pah from Oliver! are two examples, but there are numerous others.]
In the end I would sometimes resort to downloading the music off the preferred YouTube clip and then fixing it in Audacity if required.
In this laborious way I've managed to back up quite a few of my preferred versions of favourite recordings over the years to a USB stick. Before anyone asks, yes I have also backed that USB up to a hard drive.
@arcticdeth,
I sometimes do the same thing with MP3Gain if the CD is recorded a little too hot for its own good.
It kind of works but then I worry that I've destroyed the precise balance that was intended, as MP3Gain tends to average out the differences in volume between the various tracks
Or if I can I just try to find a better mastering.
On a side note - one of my friends bought all the remastered Scott Walker albums (1-4 and maybe Til the Band Comes In, I think) to replace his originals only to later have to admit his mistake and then go back and find copies of the originals!