Quote from: k.p.g on May 29, 2025, 10:11:10 PMWanted to come here and ask if anyone has bought any of the recent Deadline reissues/new releases. I got a question: how are the dubs of these releases? I was buying some at the start of the pandemic, but dipped out after the dub qualities faltered. Have they improved at all in 2025?
I was talking to someone else about this recently. Yeah, unfortunately Richard's dubbing has notoriously been... uneven. I've ordered a LOT of tapes from him over the years, and I would say that at some point, at least 20% or more of the tapes had dubbing issues. It was frequent.
I've communicated this to him a number of times to let him know when it's happened, which I think some folks are afraid to do. He has generally been really good about making it right. If you buy on Bandcamp you can redub yourself with the WAV file, or honestly, I've had him redub some stuff for me and resend it a couple of times.
Tapes around the pandemic were really problematic and for a couple of years after. Releases in 2024 and 2025 SEEM to have gotten better, but maybe I've just been getting lucky.