Sounds.. ago
Amy Grant
This is not a secret club. This is my forum.
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Post by Sounds.. ago on Feb 4, 2023 19:53:33 GMT
I take everything that mulleted moron says with a grain of salt.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Feb 4, 2023 21:49:42 GMT
Remember that he is the only person on Earth not allowed to to review the Beatles remasters, even long after 2009, because of "legal".
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Feb 4, 2023 21:56:45 GMT
Quiet CiB! I mean, ASAP. Do you want to get our asses sued again?
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CarnivalOfLightFan050167
Sir Ringo
"I just want an ergonomic method of shoving beef in my mouth." - Dave-O aka Dilly Dipshit
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Post by CarnivalOfLightFan050167 on Feb 4, 2023 22:00:53 GMT
The only person associated with that place that got sued was Jamie Tate. And that was Hoofy's people that did the suing.
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Post by streamingservice on Feb 5, 2023 5:52:44 GMT
The only person associated with that place that got sued was Jamie Tate. And that was Hoofy's people that did the suing. can you elaborate more on what happened?
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Feb 5, 2023 6:14:46 GMT
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Feb 5, 2023 8:25:55 GMT
Page 20 in Sparky’s link is where the fun begins.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 5, 2023 10:41:45 GMT
Page 20 in Sparky’s link is where the fun begins. Looking through that thread I saw a few names I hadn’t seen for ages. Tell me, did any of you have any interactions with “CellPhoneFred”? (His avatard looked like a name badge from the defunct discount department store Zayre.) I interacted with him a bit in my early days at SH.tv. He seemed OK at the time, but I might have seen his name pop up at the old SC.tv for some reason.
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CarnivalOfLightFan050167
Sir Ringo
"I just want an ergonomic method of shoving beef in my mouth." - Dave-O aka Dilly Dipshit
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Post by CarnivalOfLightFan050167 on Feb 5, 2023 13:19:17 GMT
I'm surprised that discussion wasn't scrubbed.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Feb 5, 2023 14:25:31 GMT
I'll try to make it as clear as possible.
AF released in 2010 a Simon & Garfunkel ceedee with the original stereo mix. The current Sony remaster is a remix by Vic Anesini, as the stereo master tapes are supposedly too worn out to be used again. Jamie Tate, an audio engineer based in Nashville who had grown weary over the years of what Hoofman would claim on his forum (if I remember correctly, he was even banned at some point, then returned after accepting to comply), found something weird with the AF remaster (probably after specifically searching for it). The tracks had the exact same lengths (to the hundredth of a second) as the 80s regular CD. But if you transfer tapes, there are always extremely minor fluctuations due to the equipment you use in the analog realm. Which basically meant that Hoofman had simply tinkered with the EQ on the existing digital source, either the CD itself or a DAT tape, and didn't have any kind of access to the original master tapes (which were indeed most likely too damaged). Which is, by the way, what a few of the supposed "canceled remasters" he would sell off board as CD-Rs on the forum were. Re-EQ'd versions of existing CDs.
Tate posted his findings on several places, including a review on Amazon, and on the previous version of this place. However, he clashed with a few heads here, including gimmick account Jamie Taint (which predated Tate joining SC) and left after a few weeks. His Twitter, "Not Steve Hoffman", was very fun however. The whole thing angered a great lot Hoofman. He and his longtime business partner Marshall Blonstein (the guy behind DCC or AF, and single-handedly responsible for making Hoofman famous, as the "rockstar" mastering engineer) sued Jamie Tate for libel and loss of business. Even if the claim was bogus, litigation against a supposedly big company that could afford lawyers could have taken years and cost Tate as much as a minty Baldwin before a final verdict, and he accepted to settle out of court in rather humiliating terms. It might have been different if he had known that the whole holding behind AF and a few other projects was little more than a PO Box in a mall, as Blonstein was even more of a shady businessman than assumed.
And the lawsuit backfired in a few ways. It happened at a time flaws in AF products, especially their mastering, started to pile up, rival mastering engineers from MoFi were also banned from SH.tv without explanation. In many ways, what Tate did served as a wake up call to a few people, especially as Hoffman was petty enough to let his vendetta slip to the forum, even trying to secretly edit the base as an admin, to rewrite a few posts by Tate and make them look more agressive than they were. These days, Tate owns and operates a studio in Nashville, and appears to have a thriving career. Hoofman, on the other hand...
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Post by Brick Wall on Feb 5, 2023 15:23:53 GMT
The Simon & Garfunkel album wasn't a Hoffman remaster. It was by Kevin Gray. Which also explains why the thread hasn't been sanitized for your protection. If it had been one of Hoofman's many fuck-ups, all traces of the brouhaha would have been long gone. But it's okay to leave your old buddy standing on the bridge with his dick swinging in the breeze. Steve Shitbag Hoffman in a nutshell.
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Post by braindead on Feb 5, 2023 15:55:55 GMT
Funny as fuck. Reminds me of the latest Mobile Fidelity scandal.....
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Post by Aquaholic 2.0 on Feb 5, 2023 16:04:36 GMT
If I am understanding this correctly all STeVe (and Kevin Gray in this case) did was take an old CD, rip it and then tweak the sound files? Isn’t this basically the same “process” that Tim Lookingbill and others talk about doing on their computers? Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really trust these marketing schemes outside of releases from the actual labels and not these outsourced deals anyway, and this is partially why.
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Post by streamingservice on Feb 5, 2023 16:11:46 GMT
The Simon & Garfunkel album wasn't a Hoffman remaster. It was by Kevin Gray. Which also explains why the thread hasn't been sanitized for your protection. If it had been one of Hoofman's many fuck-ups, all traces of the brouhaha would have been long gone. But it's okay to leave your old buddy standing on the bridge with his dick swinging in the breeze. Steve Shitbag Hoffman in a nutshell. Yeah I was Surprised when the thread was still up, now it all makes sense. Left his good friend out to dry.... absolute piece of shit of a human
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Post by krabapple on Feb 5, 2023 16:23:40 GMT
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