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Title: Great music, terrible mastering
Review: This review is limited to the recent two-CD remaster. Calling the Wild remains one of Doro Pesch's better releases. The music runs mainly toward melodic hard rock with a few ballads, and one cover song. Unfortunately, this edition was undercut by appallingly poor mastering. The main problem with the engineering is that the bass tones are raised so high in the mix that they completely dominate the songs, almost drowning out Doro's vocals. There is also too much compression and bass distortion, so that the instrumental backdrop becomes an undifferentiated mass of sound. Even on the acoustic tracks, the bass is up so high that the vocals and lead guitar are almost buried. By comparison, the original version of this CD, which has much better sound quality, rates four stars.
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