Here At The Home - better mp3s?

[casimirsblake]

Hello everyone,

I discovered Tribe recently, through the Here At The Home mp3s Steve Latham very kindly posted on his website. Having since tried Abort I must confess I much prefer the versions of the songs on HatH, perhaps due to the less prominent "alt guitar" sound, shall we say. I do wish we had better than 128kbit/s mp3s of HatH and I was wondering if Steve would consider uploading some better quality ones? These do suffer from "watery cymbals" syndrome...

I don't wish to appear ungreatful, but since this CD is so difficult to find, I don't know what else to do except ask. I hope that's okay.

-CB

[Steven Latham]

May 9, 2009 14:00:23 GMT -5 casimirsblake said:

Hello everyone,

I discovered Tribe recently, through the Here At The Home mp3s Steve Latham very kindly posted on his website. Having since tried Abort I must confess I much prefer the versions of the songs on HatH, perhaps due to the less prominent "alt guitar" sound, shall we say. I do wish we had better than 128kbit/s mp3s of HatH and I was wondering if Steve would consider uploading some better quality ones? These do suffer from "watery cymbals" syndrome...

I don't wish to appear ungreatful, but since this CD is so difficult to find, I don't know what else to do except ask. I hope that's okay.

-CB

I could upload 320kb files, but they take up much more space. Do you know of any place I could upload them to? I don't want to use that much space on my server.

[casimirsblake]

Steve,

Thankyou very much for taking the time to reply. There are options such as these for temporary sharing:

www.megaupload.com/
www.rapidshare.com/
zshare.net/

And others. Another option would be to start a torrent for us fans to share, though of course there are possible copyright issues there.

Another reasonable compromise between quality and filesize would be to use the encoder LAME to produce VBR MP3s with a setting such as -V 3.

However you're able to provide them, I'm sure we'd all be very greatful!

-CB.

[John]

Yep.....I'm a big fan of the early versions and the Here At The Home album in particular. CB, if you want....email me and I will help you out.
john
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