I would definetively wait for any more official confirmation. It is weird that SW would want to remix This Was: not a prog album, no chance of mixing 5.1., a good remix already in existance...
I have wondered about the 4 tracks before and I'm sure Plan9 mentioned that it's still possible to create a 5.1 mix. It will be interesting to listen nonethelesser. Heck, I'd still be happy if it were a quadraphonic mix with the .1 included...
To be fair - Songs from the Big Chair and Sparkle in the Rain aren't really that Prog related to begin with, are they? XTC too for that matter...
Much as it'd be a drag if Songs from the Wood and the subsequent albums SW is on board to remix got pushed back, having just listened to the HD version of Minstrel in the Gallery from the book set DVD yesterday.... Yeah, I can't get enough of SW's contributions to this catalog. He's doing amazing work and even where excellent sounding versions exist, he's substantively improving on them by sprinkling whatever fairy dust he has on tap over the mix. I suppose this means it's only a matter of time before we get another Benefit reissue in the book format...
I suppose this means it's only a matter of time before we get another Benefit reissue in the book format.. Please.....
I laughed too you could put a mono drum track spread between rear speakers, a mono vocal track between 3 front channels, say maybe guitar right front with slight bleed to rear, and flute center to left.
I clearly didn't learn much or wasn't even listening back when I was studying Audio Engineering over 10 years ago. Still with that said, I didn't finish my course at the time either lol.
I would have been game if we got TAAB much like Aqualung released next year to mark 45 years along with Songs from the Wood and definitely have This Was the same year as Heavy Horses like you mention, but I have a feeling we'll probably end up with TAAB in around April 2018 like Aqualung released in April of this year - and likely Heavy Horses towards the end of that year. No doubt it will frustrate fans so maybe they'd do a service to release the 2018 remixes the other way round. And I do have a feeling This Was will be released 12 months from now thus Songs coming first.
Songs From the Wood is definitely coming first I'm really psyched. Gosh, the original mix sounded amazing ~ can't even imagine how good Wilson's mix is gonna sound.... I'm pretty darn happy with the previous This Was deluxe. Then again, that's what I said about Stand Up..... The book alone is truly worth the price on that one, may it be so with This Was even if there's not much new to add audio-wise.
I really hope that SW takes a crack at This Was. He seems to have some fairy dust and why not sprinkle a little on the first album? Also, there is something to be said for completion of the JT catalog. I would also welcome Benefit in book form. So far, he has done a spectacular job. Kudos to both SW for the excellent work and to Ian Anderson for making these updates happen.
New SW interview. Towards the end he mentions that he will work on Heavy Horses next and will "eventually" remix This Was. http://www.innerviews.org/inner/steven-wilson
As long as it includes some extras, it will be interesting. Though the 2008 edition will be hard to improve.
Any additional quotes from Steve Wilson that he is committed to getting This Was completed with a 5.1 mix?
...Yet there is the omission of the "Hey Santa..." line from the mono (IIRC) version of A Christmas Song!.. Plus some weird stuff happening with the snare drum coming in too late in the mix. But it's possible this one oddity could be on the original mono tape... something that somehow couldn't be changed?..
You'd really flatten out the 5.1 spread with that much mono going on speaker to speaker. No need to. Even with vocals in center chan only, there is more to work with than that much mono in rears and again in fronts. It takes thinking out of the box on this one for sure.
