C_Matt's "Jazz (HD Revision)"

Fickle, thanks for your opinion. It's always important to know how to manage next time, having in mind all the advices you make me on the feedbacks. I hope you can listen to the entire album and like it :)

Blaise, for now I'm working on the Queen albums, and I'm very busy with other things too, but as soon as I finish all of them, maybe I'll check the solo careers. My current album is The Miracle, which I'm almost finishing.

I have now listened to the whole album, and most of sounds fine to me. I have to confess, as I said earlier, I haven't listened to the original Jazz album for many years, so I'm finding it difficult to compare that, and yours, side by side, but I do agree with the comments above re IYCBT. I think it sounds unnatural without the 'air' in the gaps, and whilst it might sound OK in a more modern recording, on old tape recordings such as these, an element of background 'noise' is to be expected. What you could have done, and this is only a suggestion, was to add a little bit of reverb to cover the silence, similarly to what I've done with the intro in my mix of FBG. It just takes that sterile edge off. :)

I was hoping that you might have been able to improve the drum sound throughout the album, but I guess that's probably too much to ask without access to the master tapes. Even on FBG, with the stems, I've tried several times, and failed. to make the drums sound better. Maybe that's something you could look at with The Miracle? The drums certainly need bringing up in Breakthru.

The only other comment I would make is that I've always hated that stupid 'mix' in the middle of MOTJ, and if I was going to rework that track, I'd remove it, and have done so for someone who requested it, so I know it's fairly easy to do. Again, just a suggestion, as others may like the 'mix' section - we all have different preferences. :)

Good luck with The Miracle - I'm looking forward to hearing it. :)

Fickle, I understand what you say about IYCBT. The silence was an aesthetic decision by my ear, I like the complete silence, so when it starts it explodes again. Obviously, is all subjective opinions, there's no one "truth" about it.

If you listen to the Jazz album and compare it with this, you'll hear important changes on the drums on the majority of the songs. In general, during the recording process, you have two snare "parts". One is the box, and the other is the wire (this thing: http://img1.mlstatic.com/s_MLA_v_O_f_118961179_1632.jpg). The problem in Jazz is that the wire sound is very loud, more than the box sound, so it sounds like crunchy, toy, bodyless.

In some songs (Jealousy, DSMN, MoTJ...) the box is more audible, but in the majority (LEY, IYCBT, DoT, FBG, Fun It...) the wire is louder than the box, so is very hard to fix it without having the multitracks. This didn't happen on ADatR or NotW.

One of my goals was to get a better sound from the drums, which, despite not being a great sound at all due the recording conditions, if you compare it with the original Jazz, is sounds a bit different. The other goals was the noise and clipping reduction (to enjoy better the song), and give an overall better sound (the song which really changed was DB, the drums and general shine).

It can be done with much work with the multitracks, but it would be like "cheating" with the three Jazz's songs from which we have multitracks. It would be heard very different beside the others.

With MoTJ, On the "CD 2" I included a mix without all that mess in the middle, for those who hate it (include myself).

Thanks for the luck with The Miracle. I've done Breakthru some days ago, and I felt the drums volume change too! I raised up the drums (mainly the snare) and the voice a bit.

As soon as I finish the album I'll upload it.
Cheers and thanks for your response! :)

Sorry, I totally missed CD2! I'll give that a listen sometime.

Don't worry! Anyway, it would be a miracle if someone listen the entire song hahahaha!

hello,

the first link doesn't work, could you re-post these tracks?

thanks a lot!

Luca

Hi Luca, in some hours it will be available again. I'm really sorry for the delay.

Thanks to you!

Here is it! Again, sorry for the delay.

http://www.mediafire.com/?fw9hm1m1u45t2c7

don't worry! and thanks again for the link!

I have listen the album, surely your tracks sound great.

I can hear details that sound new, but they fit very well if not better compared with the original versions.

in general I think it was an exhausting work but with excellent results, the question is obvious, how did you change the volume or the sound of a single instrument without changing the overall sound?do you have the multitracks?

another question is: which source have you used? the 2011 Remasters?

Thanks for your response! It was a lot of hard work and effort.

Ps: I uploaded a few days ago "The Miracle (Revision)", which I used the tools I already knew and new ones which I learned while revising it. Check it! ;)

All links are dead (

totally dead!!!

Guys,

I´d focus my attention on Matt´s most recent efforts. AKOM´s main disc has just been "released" and the "bonus disc" will be uploaded soon.

Matt himself has confirmed that, while working on his next projects (Queen II and Innuendo) he´s already re-working previous albums, like JAZZ.and The MIracle.

His skills have improved so much that I´d prefer waiting for a Jazz re-revision in the near future rather than sticking to his first delivery.

I didn´t download his first revision of Jazz, so will wait patiently for his Version2.0 instead :-).

Thank you for your kind words, Vali! It's absolutely always a pleasure reading what you write! wOvANz and Smile, welcome to the forum! The album is not available anymore online, since I heard it again some short time ago, found it horrible, and decided to delete the download for it. I'm working on a new HD revision for the album, as Vali said. The original was just to fix some errors in the songs, but with the new one I'm trying to reach a better sound.

I recommend you AKoM or ADatR. Thank you very much!