For those about "Change", I salute you

[canadiantire]

Can anyone give me an opinion about the noise gate (pumping effect) introduced in Magical Night from Change?

Original recording excerpt:
Putfile - Change excerpt

Here is another excerpt, this one largely exagerated by myself using the same audio effect:
Putfile - excerpt2


I am trying to figure out if it was deliberately introduced or, if the mixing engineer had a trampoline session the day he made the master tapes.

When I first listened to this song, I was highly irritated by the amplitude pumping.

The effect is so obvious that it eventually became catchy to hear...


I can't recall hearing anything mastered like this on a 12 inch.


Hey you senior and junior members, do you think I'm crazy?

- Marcus