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| | Blogcritics.org: Rush remasters Vapor Trails, Presto, and other Atlantic studio releases |
 | | Bassist Geddy Lee mixed the album and wound up hating the resulting product because he couldn't get a good sound out of it, but guitarist Alex Lifeson, pumped up by the music he heard on it, convinced him to leave it along and release it so they could get out on the road again. |
 | | I have to agree that the Presto remaster is not as dramatic as I would have hoped, although in some systems (like cranked through my home studio system w/ bi-amped Mackie speakers), the bottom end is certainly more present. |
 | | To my ears, the bass end on Presto is very low and was likely recorded and mixed at lower volumes, and the remaster simply takes away some of the more brittle highs to enhance the mids and lows, and takes up the bass and some mids... |
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