Korgnex
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Hi fellow collectors,
I've surprisingly stumbled over a differently mastered version of "Butterflies" where the vocals are much more dominant(!) throughout the song and also the ending is a bit different.
1) vocals are dominant over music
The vocals are more dominant over the music throughout the whole song. So this version is pretty much enjoyable because you hear everything that MJ is singing very clear - as if he would sit next to you. On the album version the singing intermixes with the music, it all seems to be compressed to form a unified whole. But on this different master the singing is louder than the music.
My guess is that this different master actually is the original final version of the track, but for the album and later promo items, it has been "normalized" due to the loudness war at that time which lead to songs being tampered with until everything in it was as loud as possible, losing much of the dynamics of a song.
2) different ending / fade-out
The second difference is that the song's last seconds are different. Michael can be heard singing in wonderful falsetto "You give me butterflies" during the fade out, in the very last seconds of the song.
AUDIO sample:
"Butterflies" (different master)
Has anybody ever heard about this different master? I want to find out how rare it actually is.
Korgnex unk:
I've surprisingly stumbled over a differently mastered version of "Butterflies" where the vocals are much more dominant(!) throughout the song and also the ending is a bit different.
1) vocals are dominant over music
The vocals are more dominant over the music throughout the whole song. So this version is pretty much enjoyable because you hear everything that MJ is singing very clear - as if he would sit next to you. On the album version the singing intermixes with the music, it all seems to be compressed to form a unified whole. But on this different master the singing is louder than the music.
My guess is that this different master actually is the original final version of the track, but for the album and later promo items, it has been "normalized" due to the loudness war at that time which lead to songs being tampered with until everything in it was as loud as possible, losing much of the dynamics of a song.
2) different ending / fade-out
The second difference is that the song's last seconds are different. Michael can be heard singing in wonderful falsetto "You give me butterflies" during the fade out, in the very last seconds of the song.
AUDIO sample:
"Butterflies" (different master)
Has anybody ever heard about this different master? I want to find out how rare it actually is.
Korgnex unk:
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