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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Jul 26, 2021 17:28:21 GMT
Ironic that the new Prince album, Welcome 2 America, is a DR12 (mastered by Bernie Grundman), but had it been released in 2011, when it was recorded, it would surely been brickwalled. Meanwhile, All Things Must Pass, recorded in 1970, would never have been mastered this hot during its day, but in 2021, it gets the full-on red-brick treatment, with Dhani Harrison & crew being mindless chimps in today's shifting paradigm back to dynamic mastering. All Things Must Pass now joins the ranks of Electric Ladyland, whose 50th annivery's release also containes blu ray audio that's just as dynamically compromised as the CD release. I would have loved to have purchased this set, but now, in full disclosure, I simply cannot pay for the blu ray 5.1 audio, only, not knowing whether it will downmix properly to 2.0, as the process is hit and miss. I'll have to borrow this from the Russians instead. Oh well. You can't please all of the people all of the time. (and not even some of the people, some of the time.) |
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Post by powerpoppackage on Jul 26, 2021 17:39:46 GMT
This is one of those guys that slips under the radar but manages to completely suck shit most of the time.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jul 26, 2021 17:48:39 GMT
It's not like they don't have another 100 versions of All Things Must Pass coming out of their asses.
There was a thread that went on for years about who got the CD with the "holy grail" mastering.
Shoot me now.
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Post by essayceedee on Jul 26, 2021 18:12:13 GMT
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Post by bradman on Jul 26, 2021 18:43:40 GMT
No matter the mastering, the album sounds like total shit, regardless of the turgid contents.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jul 26, 2021 18:49:58 GMT
Their most burning desire is to be the guy who is sitting in that plush mastering suite with a note pad and pencil, an intense look of concentration on his face as he instructs the engineer (like fuck is he doing the work, that’s what little people are for) to play it back put a shade more mid on the bass and kick back the D2s.
As the song they’ve heard countless times plays back, it unfurls its inner beauty as he turns to see Olivia and Dhani sat on the high-end leather sofa, tears running down their faces as they proclaim that he’s finally got the sound George had been striving for when he made the song, and only he has truly understood it and is truly a mastering hero.
He’s carried out on their shoulders as Ken Scott and Peter Mew rush to shake his hand and ask him how he does it.
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Post by Sounds.. ago on Jul 26, 2021 19:02:49 GMT
Reads like a Hoofy masturbatory fantasy.
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Post by Holly Diver on Jul 26, 2021 19:09:39 GMT
That fucker got the ignore during the Covid thread era.
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Post by daved on Jul 26, 2021 19:11:50 GMT
Here we go again.
"I wish we could get an All Thing Must Pass remix"
"Here you go!"
"THIS THING SUCKS!"
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jul 26, 2021 19:22:38 GMT
Here we go again. "I wish we could get an All Thing Must Pass remix" "Here you go!" "THIS THING SUCKS!" You don't understand! They didn't demix the sludge and grime properly! Or strip away layers of the wall of sound! It isn't exactly how I wanted it, and I blame Dhani and Olivia (and George too! He should have had it remixed in 2000, that way this remix could improve upon that one.) |
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jul 26, 2021 19:24:33 GMT
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Post by Chungus on Jul 26, 2021 19:55:34 GMT
This is why I guess I'm no "audiophile / fan". If a record was already very successful, i.e. George Harrison's allegedly far-and-away best album everrr, how is a remix going to take that already hyperbolic cultural consensus into something even more "revelatory"?
"Wow, I've loved this album for fifty long and boring years, down to every last note of Thanks For The Pepperoni, it's the high watermark for Beatle solo albums and the most profound spiritual work since the New Testament, but WOW THIS CLEANER MIX OF THE ALBUM HAS NOW ALLOWED ME TO ACHIEVE A PERMANENT HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OMG!"
Sure, you can say that the original mix is muddy and so on, but is there really going to be one person on the planet who is going to say "Oh, I couldn't bear to listen to All Things Must Pass until that fantastic life-changing remix came along." The remix is for existing old fans of the album, and there's no way it's going to please all of them.
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Post by graucho on Jul 26, 2021 22:29:23 GMT
Their most burning desire is to be the guy who is sitting in that plush mastering suite with a note pad and pencil, an intense look of concentration on his face as he instructs the engineer (like fuck is he doing the work, that’s what little people are for) to play it back put a shade more mid on the bass and kick back the D2s. As the song they’ve heard countless times plays back, it unfurls its inner beauty as he turns to see Olivia and Dhani sat on the high-end leather sofa, tears running down their faces as they proclaim that he’s finally got the sound George had been striving for when he made the song, and only he has truly understood it and is truly a mastering hero. He’s carried out on their shoulders as Ken Scott and Peter Mew rush to shake his hand and ask him how he does it. ^ Steve in Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard fantasy mode. Pencil in hand, dreaming that this is him. He is still that in demand cutting room engineer, not a washed-up former rich kid with a bunch of sycophants to bolster up his fading reputation. |
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 26, 2021 22:58:08 GMT
Their most burning desire is to be the guy who is sitting in that plush mastering suite with a note pad and pencil, an intense look of concentration on his face as he instructs the engineer (like fuck is he doing the work, that’s what little people are for) to play it back put a shade more mid on the bass and kick back the D2s. As the song they’ve heard countless times plays back, it unfurls its inner beauty as he turns to see Olivia and Dhani sat on the high-end leather sofa, tears running down their faces as they proclaim that he’s finally got the sound George had been striving for when he made the song, and only he has truly understood it and is truly a mastering hero. He’s carried out on their shoulders as Ken Scott and Peter Mew rush to shake his hand and ask him how he does it. ^ Steve in Gloria Swanson / Sunset Boulevard fantasy mode. Pencil in hand, dreaming that this is him. He is still that in demand cutting room engineer, not a washed-up former rich kid with a bunch of sycophants to bolster up his fading never-existed reputation. FTFY |
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Post by daved on Jul 26, 2021 23:44:48 GMT
This is why I wish they’d release Carnival Of Light. Just so it would disappoint the fuck out of these idiots.
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