Utopia - Trapped (2011 CTW "Remaster") video free download


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Duration: 03:08
Uploaded: 2013/07/27

Was only introduced to this song (and made aware of Todd's band, Utopia) 2 years ago, via this song. Not to be critical, but I thought the mix was kind of odd... I looked around for different versions of this song, figuring maybe I had a bad rip or something, but every version I located sounded the same... kinda flat, and very saturated sounding (especially during the choruses). So I fiddled around with it in a couple of sound editing programs, just trying to brighten it up and maybe lessen the saturatedness (is that even a word?) of the choruses. After a few hours of experimenting, I settled on this. I don't claim to be an expert in mixing, nor do I claim that this is in any way a superior version, just a different version that's just a little brighter, and perhaps the bottom end is tightened up a little. At any rate, variety is the spice of life, isn't it? Regardless, it is a really great tune, so I figured I'd share my little experiment with it, with all of you :)

Comments

9 years ago

BrooklynPerson30000

I appreciate your straight forward-ness about your job on this- you did real good. On my end, the sub in the low end could come back a touch, and the overall volume doesn't have to be quite so hot. You did brighten it and give it a hot energy without over-altering it- great work of love buddy :)

9 years ago

leonakita

You ruined it. Sounds squeezed out of fucking computer chips. I hate what technology has done to sound. It was never made for music. This is a disaster!

9 years ago

last name

And as an additional aside... we were all analog back then. No digital fiddling possible. Once you laid it down it was what it was.

9 years ago

last name

As a Todd fan from the mid 70's to this day I can tell you, the production quality you found so disappointing is typical Todd. Reason? Always pushing the limits, that guy. That's why I became a fan.

9 years ago

Khultan

♪♪♪

9 years ago

dirkbag .com

Sings like a Tea Party anthem -We can't be slowed down by a big bunch of lipAnd nobody cares about your paranoid tripBut you know death and the Devil sure got it easy todaySouls come so cheap some people give theirs awayYou've got to break out, you've got to prove you're aliveAnd what makes you think that the weak surviveAnd if you don't have the stomach for all this radical crapThen have the guts to stand for something or you're gonna be trapped

9 years ago

Dunn Rite

THANKS !

10 years ago

Gustavo Perez

I was FRONT ROW AT this 1977 show in Tampa!! Todd Rundgren & UTOPIA "Oops ! Wrong Planet !!" They Rocked it & opened the show with , "TRAPPED !" . Robin Trower played next . I have photos of Todd & Kasim Sultan (Bass) at this show . I've spoken to Todd in person in 1996 & I've seen him about 8 times ." Oops ! Wrong Planet" was the 1st time I saw him .

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