Posted by Marc Martin on Jun 13, 2003; 2:40pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-Fanderson-UFO-CD-arrives-tp1500994p1501011.html

>I think I'll wait till Marc gets his CDs. As an owner of the 1999 Y1 CD, he
>will be able to "compare and contrast" the two. I haven't listened to my 1999
>CD in a while, but the opening theme is slightly "off" to me (do you concur
>Marc?) and as such is a bit disappointing.

As I recall, the problem I had with the Space:1999 Year One main
theme stereo mix is that they put in instruments which were never
audible in the original (a piano, I believe). At the time, people
exclaimed "you can hear things that you could never hear before!",
but this ignores the fact that this isn't really faithful to the
original. In the original mix, the piano was (presumably) removed
from the final mix on purpose. Fanderson added it back in. Sort of
a "more is better" attitude perhaps, or "if we CAN do it, then will
WILL do it". Not "let's try to make this stereo mix sound as
faithful as possible to the original". That's what really frustrates
me about these stereo mixes -- it isn't simply that they are in
stereo, it's that the levels of the individual instruments don't
sound right.

There's another track on that Space:1999 Year One CD that really
annoys me -- it's from "A Matter of Life and Death" I think, where
there is a chase scene or something. The electric guitar sounded
prominent in the original episode. On the stereo mix, you can barely
hear the electric guitar. To me, that track is ruined. They would
have been much better off just using the original mono mix.

Marc