C_Matt's "Queen II (HD Revision)"

Thanks!

Thanks for this great work again most appreciated

Thank you again Matt! Can't stop listenig to it.
And I'm really happy to know there'll be standalone versions. It always leaves me a bad taste when I just want to listen to an (incomplete) song and not the entire B Side. (Maniatic? hehe I'm sure I'm not the only one)

Great job!

Just listened to MoTBQ, and most of it is fantastic, but there's a little blip, like a tiny dropout, in the piano intro into the last "surrender to the city" section. Can anyone else hear this, or is it my download?

Thank you everyone for your comments! Really, happy to read all of them. Just put the volume at max and enjoy this magical journey.

Do you still have problems to download from OneDrive? I could reupload it to MEGA in a few days. I'll be working with CD 2 too. Some of the standalones versions are for better.

I corrected TMotBQ, it had a little crack at 6:13 in the piano. And I listened to the whole album before uploading it, but I was so tired that night that maybe I didn't hear it. Thank you for telling that!

Cheers!

Father To Son is REALLY wonderful!

I've now listened to the whole album, for the first time in at least 20 years! You've done a fantastic job, Matt, and the whole thing sounds fresh and revitalised.

I particularly like the power you've managed to produce on White Queen, which is now almost on a par with the live versions, and Ogre / FFMS / Nevermore and MotBQ are all sublime. I also really like SSOR, which now sounds crisp and fresh, and will be my definitive version.

That is, until I've heard CD2, which I am very much looking forward to!

Great work!

20 YEARS!!!!!!??????
Shame on you Fickle.

I don't tend to listen to WHOLE albums very often any more, especially those that are over 40 years old, and have already been played to death! But I certainly have several tracks of it on my iPod playlist,so it hasn't been ignored. :)

Matt, Matt, Matt .....

listened to the whole album 5, 6 ... I don´t know how many times, now.

Even did a song by song comparision with the 2011 remaster. You know, play some seconds here, stop, play same seconds there, stop, and on and on.

What you´ve achieved here is fantastic. This is, from now on, my definitive version of the album. Of course I´ll play some of the QII vinyls I own from time to time, but your version is now the one forever and ever. Because I can´t see QPL putting so much effort, love and dedication in delivering something close to this if (dreaming now) we were to get a "Queen II official special edition" some day.

This is outstanding. One million thanks. Never thought I would enjoy so much re-discovering the Queen discography.

HS, ADATR, AKOM and now QII. You´re doing art, man, pure art !

I wet my pants when thinking about Disc 2 and innuendo after that.

Im about to explode! I cant wait for CD 2

Just another voice to add to those praising your work. I've just started to download your album mixes and am having a day sorting my music studio out and just listened to - and enjoyed!! - 'Hot Space' in its entirety! At least someone mixing and mastering that appreciates that John's sublime playing needs to be heard!!

Now moved onto AKOM - loving the improved snare on One Vision, and especially the revised little double snare double before the first verse. Can I make a request? There is a similar 'wooly' and unclear drum piece right at the end of the guitar solo in 'Breakthru' before the vocal chorus comes back in - it doesn't have a cymbal on the first beat but always sounds like it should have: they possibly removed it in error when cutting drum tracks together? If you can do anything with that I'll be very happy!!

Cheers for all the hard work

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[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

There is a similar 'wooly' and unclear drum piece right at the end of the guitar solo in 'Breakthru' before the vocal chorus comes back in - it doesn't have a cymbal on the first beat but always sounds like it should have: they possibly removed it in error when cutting drum tracks together? If you can do anything with that I'll be very happy!!

Cheers for all the hard work

cmsdrums[/QUOTE]

To be honest, I've always thought the whole of Breakthru has a very weak drum sound, and it would have been much better if Roger had used 'real' drums for that track.

Hello everyone! I've been really busy these days, the only progress I could make with the album in this last two weeks was the "no fade out" ending for FtS. I could say that a 75% of CD 2 is finished already, but I can barely use the computer. If I had the time, I could finish CD 2 really quickly. Anyway, this HD Revisions project still goes on, and it will keep going umhh... forever! I can't stop thinking how much I want to finish this album (and Frozen's OST) to start with ADatR, HS & 'Innuendo'.

Beside this, I've read every answer in this and the main topic, and I really appreciate every single word. I'll try to respond as soon as I can.

About CD 3, I'm doing some kind of "enhanced" treatment for the album, like 'A Winter's Tale (Cosy Fireside Mix)' but still more enhanced. This is close to what I want to make for CD 3:

^ That's a good remix! (maybe you can add some little things from other songs in the remix).

About Frozen, that was the most unexpected thing coming from you (the Queen guy). Interesting :)

This is like your actual masterpiece (MEGA plis).