List of companies to avoid with ties to STeVE

I have not heard the latest stuff. It might sound pretty good, I guess.

Colorizing movies and TV shows. I hate it but it makes new fans. See, if it gives people a reason to watch or listen, because it's been modernized, that's sorta OK with me.

The thing is, if you colorize something, the gray scale has to be faded down to almost nothing, this immediately alters the original lighting, timing of the negative, everything that makes an original look so wonderful. And Colorizing stuff from an old print is especially not the way to do it.

Even if you went back to the camera negative and started colorizing from there, the timing of the positive would be off, due to the need of reducing the scale.

Same thing when you rig a stereo mix from an existing "set in stone" mono mix. You're messing with something that was messed with once already. The end result is just colorizing for your ears. Some people can't live without stereo. This is for them. Simple as that.

It's like taking The Wizard Of Oz and making it 3-D. This is something that also puzzles me. Why do it? Was there a demand? It must be 3-D or it's no good any more? 'Twas pretty good just the way it was for 70 years, what changed?

Or why try and "create" stereo from a mono mix, this is a new trend called DES (Disturbing Essential Sound) thereby changing all the careful balances of the original mono mix? Just because you can? Or the "people" demand it? Who are these people?

It's like taking The Wizard Of Oz and making it 3-D. This is something that also puzzles me. Why do it? Was there a demand? It must be 3-D or it's no good any more? 'Twas pretty good just the way it was for 70 years, what changed?

Or why try and "create" stereo from a mono mix, this is a new trend called DES (Disturbing Essential Sound) thereby changing all the careful balances of the original mono mix? Just because you can? Or the "people" demand it? Who are these people?

There is nothing valid about DES.

I beg to differ, I greatly enjoy the House of the Rising Sun and Incense and Peppermints DES version much more than the mono versions.

Well, I enjoyed my Color By Numbers version of the Mona Lisa that I painted in the 5th grade better than the original as well. Doesn't make it a universal truth.

Look, altering a work of art to suit your selfish needs will bug me, and it always will. But it doesn't make me cry or curse or sink to my knees in despair. It just simply bugs me, not the end of the world. So, as I said above, carry on.

No it's not. Remixing something from a multi-track work part source is totally different. Your DES process is remixing something that is already mixed and finished, with proper levels, reverb, compression, equalization already applied, from many years ago. You're now taking that and messing with it. The split second that the guitar that was in the background is now coming out of the left channel, it draws your ear to it. The split second your ear is drawn to that sound completely changes how you perceive the mix. You can't see that? A crucial difference.

Again, it's OK to like that stuff. But don't give that "nothing more, nothing less" bullcrappy. :^)