First of all, the album is great ... very rough ... nothing polished ... the sound is at its best old fashioned .... a certain resemblance to Big Brother & The Holding Company .... GEG Calbi was responsible for mastering, and can its job quite well, also costs a lot of dollars ... the mix is in the peaks a bit driven to the wall, however, was in Joplin and his associates the 60s the case ... has nothing to do with mastering. I find the sound more refreshing and leave .... can spend for the super audiophile amn indeed hear ECM. or? point deduction there only because just as nothing happened .... new