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Post by Boozin' Susan on Aug 22, 2020 8:55:57 GMT
One thing I find fascinating about the SHites is that they honestly believe that STeVE picks and chooses which projects to work on – like he’s some sort of mastering auteur. (Yet, in the real world, Hoffman is an unemployable schlub in a fetid blue T-shirt, who lost his only gig when AF’s Marsha Brownstain stopping paying for a strip-mall mail box.) So, you might think that STeVE would be gracious to people who have been able to succeed in the business, and not take every opportunity to throw shade on them. But, like a petulant child, Hoffman just cannot help himself: Tidal states the mastering was by Vlado Meller on both the original and the 2014 Remaster. I wonder what's different about the remaster and why would the same guy remaster the album 8 years after the original. Perhaps to add more overload distortion and clipping? Look, I’m not a huge fan of the RHCP CDs that Vlado Meller mastered, but the man is regularly employed and has even won a couple of Grammy awards (according to Wikipedia). What other examples of STeVE throwing real audio engineers under the proverbial bus have you found? Poat all of it here. (I seem to remember starting a thread like this over at our old digs, and that Hoffman had provided a healthy amount of fodder for it.)
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Post by daved on Aug 22, 2020 9:44:50 GMT
Oh god, the list is endless. Dowd, Rudy, Emerick, Jensen, etc....
I’d have to search that shit hole. So many examples.
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Aug 22, 2020 9:50:23 GMT
He always stays strangely quiet on the second coming that is Chris Bellman, I guess even Hoofy knows his limits for who he can attack.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Aug 22, 2020 9:57:09 GMT
By the way, just a reminder that a few years ago, Joe Nino-Hermes was some guy who wanted to become a mastering engineer and asked SH.tv and Steve in particular for tips. Now, he’s making a more than decent career in that field, as he even took care of the vinyl version of the new Bob Dylan album. But he quickly left SH.tv.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Aug 22, 2020 10:38:17 GMT
One of the gorts (mlutthans, I think) is already far more employable than Steve is- can Steve resist the temptation to dunk on him, or will he take the ‘I taught him everything he knows’ line?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2020 11:52:19 GMT
One of the gorts (mlutthans, I think) is already far more employable than Steve is- can Steve resist the temptation to dunk on him, or will he take the ‘I taught him everything he knows’ line? It will take some digging but when mlutthans got the gig not once did STeVe publicly congratulate him. You would think as a member of the “staff” STeVe would be happy to see one of his children go off and take after “daddy” but from what I remember it was crickets from Hoffman.
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Post by jeatletoes on Aug 22, 2020 14:21:05 GMT
That one of his gorts gets more mastering gigs than STeVe is the ultimate irony.
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Post by UDII on Aug 22, 2020 14:47:17 GMT
There was also Vic ("Stay away from the treble knob") Anesini who along with Bob Ludwig is one of the busiest in THE BIZ.
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Post by UDII on Aug 22, 2020 14:51:36 GMT
He always stays strangely quiet on the second coming that is Chris Bellman, I guess even Hoofy knows his limits for who he can attack. I know he get pumped up endlessly by the Analog upstairs guy but he has done some great work on the Neil Young reissues & Then Play On reissue. Plus he seems like a nice guy when he answers questions when asked so he is hardly the second coming of Hoofy. Diament is the only other that I put in the same ballpark as Daddy as they are both out of the picture.
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Post by Brick Wall on Aug 22, 2020 15:05:22 GMT
Hoffman is a petulant, narcissistic sociopath. At least Diament had the entertainment advantage of appearing batshit crazy.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Aug 22, 2020 15:40:30 GMT
I miss Barry Demented. If you needed an idea of how little thought went into the initial SeeDees that the Huffman love some much, Barry “reverse the channels” D was your guy. I still think his claims that his hearing almost topped out at 30 kHz and his wife’s near 23 kHz was one of the best things I ever read over there.
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Post by Aural Relations on Aug 22, 2020 15:43:51 GMT
I miss Barry Demented. If you needed an idea of how little thought went into the initial SeeDees that the Huffman love some much, Barry “reverse the channels” D was your guy. I still think his claims that his hearing almost topped out at 30 kHz and his wife’s near 23 kHz was one of the best things I ever read over there. Whatever happened to Barry? I remember him being a staple target of the old place -- did he die or something?
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Aug 22, 2020 15:49:24 GMT
I miss Barry Demented. If you needed an idea of how little thought went into the initial SeeDees that the Huffman love some much, Barry “reverse the channels” D was your guy. I still think his claims that his hearing almost topped out at 30 kHz and his wife’s near 23 kHz was one of the best things I ever read over there. Whatever happened to Barry? I remember him being a staple target of the old place -- did he die or something? IIRC, the SHites stopped paying him the fealty he felt he was owed, so he took his ball and went home. It may have been more petty than that. It may have been just one person taking him to task. I really can’t remember. I just know he definitely left in a snit of some sort.
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Post by jeatletoes on Aug 22, 2020 16:02:52 GMT
I'm sure that given how revered in the BIZ STeVE is, there are plenty of other legit and respected mastering engineers who frequent his site.
Certainly that must be the case.
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Post by daved on Aug 22, 2020 16:03:40 GMT
I miss Barry Demented. If you needed an idea of how little thought went into the initial SeeDees that the Huffman love some much, Barry “reverse the channels” D was your guy. I still think his claims that his hearing almost topped out at 30 kHz and his wife’s near 23 kHz was one of the best things I ever read over there. The thread at the old place about that band he produced was the best. The flattest, dullest sounding shit I’ve ever heard. The band even had a look of bewilderment on their faces as they listened to it.
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