http://www.queenzone.com/queenzone/news_view.aspx?news_id=3532
Why rerelease stuff like this while we are still waiting for things like, oh, I dunno, GVH3? Unreleased tracks? Live At The Rainbow? A Deaky solo album? Although that last one may be asking a bit too much...
Anyway, they should do some new stuff, or even, god forbid, a new compilation instead of rereleasing an old one. Who agrees?
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Sometimes I think we'll *never* get GVH3.
Recycling is good for the environment.
Fully agree.
I almost couldn`t believe it when I saw it. Another slap in the face. Is it the 3rd,4th,5th re-release under the label "remastered" ?
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I almost couldn`t believe it when I saw it. Another slap in the face. Is it the 3rd,4th,5th re-release under the label "remastered" ?
cheers
I love the GH album. I'll buy it if it is being re-released.
And is this a worldwide re-release? Or is it a new remaster release in a lone country?
Peace,
Adam.
Peace,
Adam.
Hi @ Adam,
Shortly after I found that on the german amazon page I look at amazon.com and found nothing announced on that site. So maybe it`s just in Germany, I don`t know.
There were several albums which get a re-release in March. God knows what that means, oh lord.....
cheers
Shortly after I found that on the german amazon page I look at amazon.com and found nothing announced on that site. So maybe it`s just in Germany, I don`t know.
There were several albums which get a re-release in March. God knows what that means, oh lord.....
cheers
So, in other words, Germany could just be getting what happened with the 2004 remasters in the UK??
Peace,
Adam.
Peace,
Adam.
I think so. As I said there are several other Cd`s which gets re-released on the 27th February. So silly, but hey the last degital remasters series here over was in 1994. So it was time...;-). Looking for the boxes with all that again in 3 years. Or Mr.May finds another "revelutionary" remaster tool to present the entire cataloque again before that happens...
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cheers
(Reads label on a copy of GH I've had since I was about 4)
Yep. Digitally remastered. Why exactly are they doing this again?
Yep. Digitally remastered. Why exactly are they doing this again?
Digital remastering is so full of shit. In this age of freeware DIY mastering software, I'd think DR would be redundant in 2006. All it does is add bass and volume to the original recording.
Press release for the new Queen CDs:
"You only need to buy these CDs if your stereo doesn't have a bass and volume knob."
Press release for the new Queen CDs:
"You only need to buy these CDs if your stereo doesn't have a bass and volume knob."
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Flash Danny Project wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Digital remastering is so full of shit. In this age of freeware DIY mastering software, I'd think DR would be redundant in 2006. All it does is add bass and volume to the original recording.
Press release for the new Queen CDs:
"You only need to buy these CDs if your stereo doesn't have a bass and volume knob."[/QUOTE]
Don't take offence here, but... you don't have a clue about Remastering. I do and I can say in quite certain terms, it ain't NOTHING to do with turning up the treble and bass!
It covers the entire spectrum plus audio compression types. Plus anything else that might help the sound in the mastering engineer's ey... er... ears..!
I was most glad to see the ANATO 2005 cd remaster. It's very well done. Anyway, I hope you are somehow enlightened by this.
Peace,
Adam.
Press release for the new Queen CDs:
"You only need to buy these CDs if your stereo doesn't have a bass and volume knob."[/QUOTE]
Don't take offence here, but... you don't have a clue about Remastering. I do and I can say in quite certain terms, it ain't NOTHING to do with turning up the treble and bass!
It covers the entire spectrum plus audio compression types. Plus anything else that might help the sound in the mastering engineer's ey... er... ears..!
I was most glad to see the ANATO 2005 cd remaster. It's very well done. Anyway, I hope you are somehow enlightened by this.
Peace,
Adam.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Adam Baboolal wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Flash Danny Project wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Digital remastering is so full of shit. In this age of freeware DIY mastering software, I'd think DR would be redundant in 2006. All it does is add bass and volume to the original recording.
Press release for the new Queen CDs:
"You only need to buy these CDs if your stereo doesn't have a bass and volume knob."[/QUOTE]
Don't take offence here, but... you don't have a clue about Remastering. I do and I can say in quite certain terms, it ain't NOTHING to do with turning up the treble and bass!
It covers the entire spectrum plus audio compression types. Plus anything else that might help the sound in the mastering engineer's ey... er... ears..!
I was most glad to see the ANATO 2005 cd remaster. It's very well done. Anyway, I hope you are somehow enlightened by this.
Peace,
Adam.[/QUOTE]
No offence taken. I'm an audio engineer (apparantley like yourself) but I try to steer clear of tech talk in forums. You ask the everyman (or woman) what they consider the difference between an original issue album and its digital remaster and 7 times out of 10, they will say "it's louder" and/or "it has more bass". Tech-wise, it obviously goes way beyond that, but explaining to the aforementioned people that we gained access to the original masters, converted them to 9600/24 on HD, applied EQ, multi-band compression, multi-band exciter together with some stereo widening and finally dithered and re-converted to 16 bit for CD mastering does little to significantly boost sales. These days, I just say "this is the reason why you put that woofer in your car". ;-)
Press release for the new Queen CDs:
"You only need to buy these CDs if your stereo doesn't have a bass and volume knob."[/QUOTE]
Don't take offence here, but... you don't have a clue about Remastering. I do and I can say in quite certain terms, it ain't NOTHING to do with turning up the treble and bass!
It covers the entire spectrum plus audio compression types. Plus anything else that might help the sound in the mastering engineer's ey... er... ears..!
I was most glad to see the ANATO 2005 cd remaster. It's very well done. Anyway, I hope you are somehow enlightened by this.
Peace,
Adam.[/QUOTE]
No offence taken. I'm an audio engineer (apparantley like yourself) but I try to steer clear of tech talk in forums. You ask the everyman (or woman) what they consider the difference between an original issue album and its digital remaster and 7 times out of 10, they will say "it's louder" and/or "it has more bass". Tech-wise, it obviously goes way beyond that, but explaining to the aforementioned people that we gained access to the original masters, converted them to 9600/24 on HD, applied EQ, multi-band compression, multi-band exciter together with some stereo widening and finally dithered and re-converted to 16 bit for CD mastering does little to significantly boost sales. These days, I just say "this is the reason why you put that woofer in your car". ;-)
I just don't see a reason. It sounded better on vinyl anyway.
Congratulations, QP! You did it again.
Wow, I'm so excited. I couldn't sleep all night.
Wow, I'm so excited. I couldn't sleep all night.