HW:Warrior+EMI/ramble remastering/state of affairs?

[SPRAWL]

the WHOLE dojo cd is from vinyl. the griffin doesnt seem to be tho.
if the dojo isnt, i wonder why i got those annoying tiks al the way thru
it, barely audible...
rj


Mark Edmonds wrote:

> I don't know where I got this idea from but I was under the impression
> there was some problem with the master tapes - like the originals no
> longer exist or something. I hope that's not the case though! I would be
> willing to bet a virtual fiver that Motorhead on the DoJo release was
> transfered from vinyl.
>
> >And what about the Charisma/76-78 era?? Astounding/Quark/PXR5/Hawklords 25
> >Years On (maybe even the Hawklords Live on the same disc?), those 4 albums
> >are as classic as the early ones.
>
> Yes! That would be fantastic!
>
> >I'd see no point in remastering...
> >(like who needs a remaster of Levitation!?)
>
> I would out of curiosity. I don't really know what I am talking about
> here but I would expect that the original master wouldn't be 44KHz 16bit
> (CD standard?) so you would probably need to resample it. With fancy
> things like super bitmapping and such, I wouldn't be surprised if you
> could end up with something sounding marginally better.
>
> Anyone got the dope on Warrior and digital masters?
>
> --
> Mark Edmonds