Remaster decision

[Craig Shipley]

>
> On 29-APR-1996 11:23:58.0 BOC-L said to HERBERT119
>    >These new remasters break that rule.  Take _Doremi_ for instance - if I
>    >didn't know Hawkwind - if someone just played the new EMI remaster for
>    >me, I would think that Hawkwind was some retro psychedelic Monster
>    >Magnet type band, and I was listening to their new album, recorded in
>    >1996.  The guitars are so intense that they'll burn holes in your
>    >ears.  The hiss is *gone*, despite the fact that the treble has been
>    >*increased*.  The whole album used to sound like it was recorded
>    >through microphones wrapped in wet felt.  Now it sounds like it was
>    >recorded in a modern digital studio.  You've probably heard what Mobile
>    >Fidelity Sound Labs can make old vinyl-age recordings sound like.
>    >These new EMI releases sound *better*.
>
>    >Steve
> I haven't even heard these remasters yet, so I'm not really judging them,
> but with the sound being so drastically different from the originals,
> doesn't
> it bother anyone? I mean, sure the production of Doremi from a techincal
> standpoint was atrocious, but that's just the way it was, it's still a
> classic album, partly BECAUSE of the raw production,
> and I feel like
> I'd be uncomfortable if it actually had a more modern sound/production. How
> much can an album be messed with, with it still being the same album?
>
>
> Chuck
> `[1;35;40mRainbow V 1.19.4 for Delphi - Test Drive
>
If I may put my $0.02 in...

The _production_ of all of the old HW releases will remain as it always
has, as that was performed way back when the original tape was cut. Unlike
Edgar Froese with some of the "new" old Tangerine Dream material, Brock &
Co. are _not_ adding new music/sounds/efx to the remasters. The music remains
the _same_, it is how it is being _presented_ is whats' changed. Let's face
it, the One Ways were basically just a quick 'n dirty transfer of a tape
(master, safety, 2nd/3rd/4th generation, who knows?) to CD. Remastering
for CD allows for _all_ the music that was orginally present on the CD to
be presented in its' best possible form; i.e., no more rolling off the low
end, mono bass, elimination of the RIAA curve, etc. We now hear what was on
the master, without all of the sonic artifacts that (rightly/wrongly) coloured
the early releases. I _want_ the very best version, sonically, that i can get
of a recording. So, don't worry, the raw production will still be there, it'll
just sound like it was _meant_ to be.

Hoping that my discs arrive today...


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