Queen Studio Collection LP box set

[QUOTE] [b]MercurialFreddie wrote:[/b]

Meanwhile on Brianmay.com, under the section "on this day" (Fri 17 Jul 15)....

In 2012 - Queen announced screenings of 27 July Budapest concert, titled "Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen live In Budapest" in !!! deleted heaters !!! worldwide.

On a more serious note:

If this new turntable would be considered as a free gift for those who'll order whole lp set that would be definitely worth buying.

The first step was the tape research; locating and confirming the correct versions and best sources for all
tracks. !!! Most notably, Under Pressure, plus five tracks on the ‘Innuendo’
album, were improved hugely after the discovery of better sources
during this period. !!!

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"The original plan was to master everything straight from the analogue
mix tapes, where available. But in fact most of those tapes, having suffered from the effects of time, were in need of some restoration. The problems encountered included speed errors, missing audio, newly
developing clicks and other unwanted noise.
!!! So the decision was made to create new super-high quality digital masters, using 24 bit samples and
a sampling rate of 96 kHz. !!!
All the restoration was then performed in the digital domain, and the vinyl was cut from these perfected files. All restoration was carried out with the lightest of touches, with a profound respect for the originals, and the resulting masters are undoubtedly the finest ever."

= So it IS NOT the 2011 remaster ?[/QUOTE]




Who Knows.

Well, color me disappointed already. The Queen II gimmick is stupid, most of the vinyll color choices aren't that great either.

Will probably buy SHA, Innuendo and MIH but that's all.

Of course they are the 2011 Ludwig remasterd. The question is, will the stupid limiting and compression witnessed on the CDs carry over to the LPs?

I think the same mastering - that is compression, etc, will go through to the vinyl. If vinyl can handle it. That is the way the band like it....

oh, yes.... this boxset looks so beautiful !!

but, hey ....

already have all the original vinyl pressings, plus the previous vinyl reissues (when was that? 6 or 7 years ago?), plus +400€ ... and I prefer the forthcoming Bowie boxset.

Enough said !

It will no doubt be the 2011 remasters. The press release states that the audio restoration work has been going on for a few years, and so my guess is that all the steps they list were what they went through preparing for the 2011 stuff, and they are just recutting the vinyls based on those.

As others have said, the loudness issues are just ignored by QPL sadly.

I've been thinking about a new turntable though so may invest in that (£385 apparently) and just play all my old vinyls on it!

I can't understand why they haven't yet released the High Res masters on sites like Qobuz or HD Tracks.

Another one of my frustrations with this set is that is really a money making exercise and nothing more. Despite loathing the constant reissues of Greatest Hits, and other new compilations coming out, I can at least slightly understand these when QPL give the reasoning that it brings their music to new audiences and 'Joe Public', as those people don't buy the original albums; they say that other things (Rainbow etc) are aimed at the true fans.

However, based on them already having given us the same audio remasters in 2011 there is nothing new musically here, so to me this release is not about the music, but counts purely as MERCHANDISE, in the same way their tacky vodkas, tea towels, shopping bags etc are. They know that it will appeal to the merchandise collectors and so can guarantee a financial return on them without actually issuing anything new. It stinks.

I think mastering wise that this will be a different mix in comparison to the 2011 releases. Yes the same Digital Masters were most defiantly used but there is no way Bob Ludwig simply worked off the 2011 remasters. I don't know Bob Ludwig's stance on the loudness war but he is very respected. I hope we get a pleasant surprise with a new and hopefully improved mastering process from the digital masters..

[QUOTE] [b]MercurialFreddie wrote:[/b]


= So it IS NOT the 2011 remaster ?[/QUOTE]

If you read the full article on the purchasing website, it clearly starts with "five years in the making" and so all the technical details relate to the 2011 remasters.
24/96 masters were created and it was those that were cleaned up and "remastered".
These will be vinyl pressings from those subsequent masters.
This is info they should have published at the time as we all wanted to know it back then.
Typical Queen though - late to the party...
It's almost like their attitude is one of not giving a *s**t: "Here's the product. Take it or leave it. Either way we don't care if you care."

If only QPL management made as much effort as Gary Taylor and Greg Brooks do, their products would be the best in the world. Instead they're quite frequently superceeded by releases of other bands.

Oh, and it's ironic that the same website which is selling these also sells hi-res flac files of other bands albums, but we are presented with, yet again, shitty mp3's.

Are they offering the book separate? It's the only thing in this package that vaguely interests us.

Would still like a 'Live Killers' remastered, with the songs (and missing songs) in the original setlist order. It can't be that frickin' difficult.

and golly gee, it would sell

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[b]*goodco* wrote: [/b] Are they offering the book separate?[/QUOTE]

Hahah, don't be silly, of course not!

I was at least happy to see that Innuendo and Made in Heaven are finally released on 2lp. I'll try not to get my hopes up too much about the mastering but at least they can't be using the same ones they did for the 2011 re-releases, since that was on single vinyl format.

Those two records are the only ones that will at least add something to what everyone already has. Unless the price will be 40 euros like the Rainbow 2lp was i might buy them.

Not really interested in the box set, i already have everything in probably better quality and without gimmicks!

Hmmm...delivery charge is €168.21 from Queenonline store....are Brian and Roger delivering this in person... :) ?

[QUOTE] [b]FG wrote:[/b]

Hmmm...delivery charge is €168.21 from Queenonline store....are Brian and Roger delivering this in person... :) ?[/QUOTE]

Sure it's heavy, but that's ridiculous.