Current list, from the previous thread: AC/DC - High Voltage AC/DC - Let Their Be Rock AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap AC/DC - Highway To Hell AC/DC - Back In Black* AC/DC - For Those About To Rock* AC/DC - Who Made Who Bad Company – Bad Company* Bad Company – Straight Shooter Bad Company – 10 From 6 Bad Company - Run With The Pack Bad Company - Burnin' Sky (?) Bad Company - Desolation Angels (?) Bad Company - Rough Diamonds (?) Anita Baker - Rapture Bellvue Cadillac - Black and White* The Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full Of Blues Tommy Bolin - The Ultimate Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars* Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love John Cage & The Arditti Quartet - The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1* The Call - Reconciled Chic - C'est Chic (?) The Coasters - The Ultimate Coasters* (Warner Special Products 9 27604-2) Phil Collins - Face Value* Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going* Phil Collins - No Jacket Required Jim Croce - Photographs And Memories* Cowboy Mouth - Word of Mouth* Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far The Cure - The Head On The Door Danzig - Danzig Bobby Darin - The Ultimate Bobby Darin* (Warner Special Products 9 27606-2) Dr. John - I did *something* Dr. John. (Great guy too!) - BD. Dokken - Under Lock And Key Dokken - Breaking The Chains The Eagles – The Eagles The Eagles – Desperado The Eagles – The Long Run The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits* The Eagles - Greatest Hits Volume 2 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Enya - Watermark* (original and reissue with added tracks) The Firm - The Firm The Firm - Mean Business Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly Foreigner - Foreigner Foreigner - Double Vision Foreigner - Head Games Foreigner - 4 Foreigner - Agent Provocateur Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool (?) Aretha Franklin - best of (?) J. Geils Band - Best Of The J. Geils Band Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail 32VD-1023 (see bottom of page) Genesis - Duke Genesis - Abacab Genesis - Three Sides Live (US version with "Paperlate") Genesis - Genesis The Georgia Satellites - The Gerogia Satellites* Guns’N’Roses - Appetite For Destruction* Guns’N’Roses - G 'N' R Lies* Helldorado - Sinful Soul* Hex - Hex* INXS - Listen Like Thieves Grace Jones - Island Life Howard Jones - One To One Howard Jones - Dream Into Action Keeler - Autofocus Tommy Keene - Based On Happy Times* Rusty Kershaw - Now and Then* Kitaro - The Light Of The Spirit* KMFDM - Glory Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin - II Led Zeppelin - III Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same Led Zeppelin - Presence Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door Led Zeppelin - Coda Bob Marley - Catch A Fire* Bob Marley - Burnin'* Bob Marley - Natty Dread* Bob Marley - Live!* Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration* Bob Marley - Exodus * Bob Marley - Kaya* Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus* Bob Marley - Survival* Bob Marley - Uprising* Bob Marley - Confrontation* Bob Marley - Legend* Bob Marley - Rebel Music* Meatloaf - Blind Before I Stop* Mike + the Mechanics - Mike + the Mechanics Mike + the Mechanics - Living Years Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love Ivan Neville - Thanks* Gary Nicholson - The Sky's Not The Limit* Stevie Nicks - Belladonna Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart Nico - The Marbel Index* Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine* Nu Shooz - Poolside Ted Nugent - Little Miss Dangerous* Of Cabbages And Kings - Hunter's Moon* Of Cabbages And Kings - Never Too Late* Onyan Art - Reagge Rock* Benjamin Orr - The Lace Robert Palmer - Pressure Drop Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley Robert Palmer - Pride Robert Palmer – Riptide Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments The Rascals - Ultimate Rascals* (Warner Special Products 9 27605-2 this one ) Ratt - Dancing Undercover Otis Redding - Ultimate Otis Redding* (Warner Special Products 9 27608-2) Rock City Angels - Young Man's Blues Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams Linda Ronstadt - What's New Linda Ronstadt - Lush Life Linda Ronstadt - For Sentimental Reasons Simply Red - Picture Book Simply Red - Men And Women Simply Red - A New Flame Simply Red - Stars Simply Red - "You've Got It" CD single* (four songs total including a live "Holding Back the Years" and "I Wish"). Slayer - South Of Heaven* Slayer - Reign in Blood* Stacey Q - Better Than Heaven Subdudes - Lucky* The Sun And The Moon - Sun And The Moon* Dr. Fiorella Terenzi - Music From The Galaxies* Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy Pete Townshend - Psychoderelict* (several versions for Atlantic, including original, censored dialog and cassette!) Pete Townshend - White City* Pete Townshend - Deep End Live Pete Townshend - Scoop* Pete Townshend - Another Scoop* U2 - Boy U2 - October U2 - War U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky Underworld - Born Slippy* Jason Vitelli - No Photographs* Work Of Art - Lift* (Soundkeeper Recordings - SR4001) Work Of Art - Simplicity* (Sword in the Stone Records - SSR54) Work Of Art - Waves* (Sword in the Stone Records - SSR56) Yes - The Yes Album Yes - Fragile Yes - Close To The Edge Yes - Drama Yes - Tormato Yes - Classics Warren Zevon - A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon* Various artists - Atlantic Soul Classics (Warner Special Products 9-27601-2) Various Artists - Superstars in Digital (Warner Special Products 9 27600-2 - "possibly") Various artists - Stand By Me (soundtrack) Various artists - Woodstock - Music From The Original Soundtrack And More ---------------------------------------------------- CDs NOT mastered by Barry Diament Yes - Yessongs ---------------------------------------------------- *From the original master tapes -- AC/DC Back In Black is "perhaps" and Eagles Greatest Hits is "I *think*... but analog 'best of's were usually created by copying from the originals and assembling the copies into a new album so that would have been 1:1 from the originals..." - BD. Jim Croce: see above about "best of" compilations Genesis: "I did create CD masters for all --or almost all-- of the Genesis albums not long after I left Atlantic in the late '80s. Since I never received copies of pressings, I do not know if any of the masters I sent were ever used for CD production." - BD.
My pleasure! Of course, all thanks is due to vonwegan and pig whisperer for starting and maintaining the original thread.
Current list AC/DC - High Voltage AC/DC - Let Their Be Rock AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap AC/DC - Highway To Hell AC/DC - Back In Black* AC/DC - For Those About To Rock* AC/DC - Who Made Who Bad Company – Bad Company* Bad Company – Straight Shooter Bad Company – 10 From 6 Bad Company - Run With The Pack Bad Company - Burnin' Sky (?) Bad Company - Desolation Angels (?) Bad Company - Rough Diamonds (?) Anita Baker - Rapture Bellvue Cadillac - Black and White* The Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full Of Blues Tommy Bolin - The Ultimate Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars* Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love John Cage & The Arditti Quartet - The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1* The Call - Reconciled Chic - C'est Chic (?) The Coasters - The Ultimate Coasters* (Warner Special Products 9 27604-2) Phil Collins - Face Value* Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going* Phil Collins - No Jacket Required Jim Croce - Photographs And Memories* Cowboy Mouth - Word of Mouth* Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far The Cure - The Head On The Door Danzig - Danzig Bobby Darin - The Ultimate Bobby Darin* (Warner Special Products 9 27606-2) Dr. John - I did *something* Dr. John. (Great guy too!) - BD. Dokken - Under Lock And Key Dokken - Breaking The Chains The Eagles – The Eagles The Eagles – Desperado The Eagles – The Long Run The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits* The Eagles - Greatest Hits Volume 2 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Enya - Watermark* (original and reissue with added tracks) The Firm - The Firm The Firm - Mean Business Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly Foreigner - Double Vision Foreigner - Head Games Foreigner - 4 Foreigner - Agent Provocateur Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool (?) Aretha Franklin - best of (?) J. Geils Band - Best Of The J. Geils Band Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail 32VD-1023 (see bottom of page) Genesis - Duke Genesis - Abacab Genesis - Three Sides Live (US version with "Paperlate") Genesis - Genesis The Georgia Satellites - The Gerogia Satellites* Guns’N’Roses - Appetite For Destruction* Guns’N’Roses - G 'N' R Lies* Helldorado - Sinful Soul* Hex - Hex* INXS - Listen Like Thieves Grace Jones - Island Life Howard Jones - One To One Howard Jones - Dream Into Action Keeler - Autofocus Tommy Keene - Based On Happy Times* Rusty Kershaw - Now and Then* Kitaro - The Light Of The Spirit* KMFDM - Glory Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin - II Led Zeppelin - III Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same Led Zeppelin - Presence Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door Led Zeppelin - Coda Bob Marley - Catch A Fire* Bob Marley - Burnin'* Bob Marley - Natty Dread* Bob Marley - Live!* Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration* Bob Marley - Exodus * Bob Marley - Kaya* Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus* Bob Marley - Survival* Bob Marley - Uprising* Bob Marley - Confrontation* Bob Marley - Legend* Bob Marley - Rebel Music* Meatloaf - Blind Before I Stop* Mike + the Mechanics - Mike + the Mechanics Mike + the Mechanics - Living Years Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love Ivan Neville - Thanks* Gary Nicholson - The Sky's Not The Limit* Stevie Nicks - Belladonna Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart Nico - The Marbel Index* Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine* Nu Shooz - Poolside Ted Nugent - Little Miss Dangerous* Of Cabbages And Kings - Hunter's Moon* Of Cabbages And Kings - Never Too Late* Onyan Art - Reagge Rock* Benjamin Orr - The Lace Robert Palmer - Pressure Drop Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley Robert Palmer - Pride Robert Palmer – Riptide Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments The Rascals - Ultimate Rascals* (Warner Special Products 9 27605-2 this one ) Ratt - Dancing Undercover Otis Redding - Ultimate Otis Redding* (Warner Special Products 9 27608-2) Rock City Angels - Young Man's Blues Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams Linda Ronstadt - What's New Linda Ronstadt - Lush Life Linda Ronstadt - For Sentimental Reasons Simply Red - Picture Book Simply Red - Men And Women Simply Red - A New Flame Simply Red - Stars Simply Red - "You've Got It" CD single* (four songs total including a live "Holding Back the Years" and "I Wish"). Slayer - South Of Heaven* Slayer - Reign in Blood* Stacey Q - Better Than Heaven Subdudes - Lucky* The Sun And The Moon - Sun And The Moon* Dr. Fiorella Terenzi - Music From The Galaxies* Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy Pete Townshend - Psychoderelict* (several versions for Atlantic, including original, censored dialog and cassette!) Pete Townshend - White City* Pete Townshend - Deep End Live Pete Townshend - Scoop* Pete Townshend - Another Scoop* U2 - Boy U2 - October U2 - War U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky Underworld - Born Slippy* Jason Vitelli - No Photographs* Work Of Art - Lift* (Soundkeeper Recordings - SR4001) Work Of Art - Simplicity* (Sword in the Stone Records - SSR54) Work Of Art - Waves* (Sword in the Stone Records - SSR56) Yes - The Yes Album Yes - Fragile Yes - Close To The Edge Yes - Drama Yes - Tormato Yes - Classics Warren Zevon - A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon* Various artists - Atlantic Soul Classics (Warner Special Products 9-27601-2) Various Artists - Superstars in Digital (Warner Special Products 9 27600-2 - "possibly") Various artists - Stand By Me (soundtrack) Various artists - Woodstock - Music From The Original Soundtrack And More ---------------------------------------------------- CDs NOT mastered by Barry Diament Foreigner - Foreigner Yes - Yessongs ---------------------------------------------------- *From the original master tapes -- AC/DC Back In Black is "perhaps" and Eagles Greatest Hits is "I *think*... but analog 'best of's were usually created by copying from the originals and assembling the copies into a new album so that would have been 1:1 from the originals..." - BD. Jim Croce: see above about "best of" compilations Genesis: "I did create CD masters for all --or almost all-- of the Genesis albums not long after I left Atlantic in the late '80s. Since I never received copies of pressings, I do not know if any of the masters I sent were ever used for CD production." - BD
To answer Fireball's questions: 1. Yes, I did the original CD release for "Too Fast For Love". 2. The reason I did the rest of the Zep catalog but not "IV" is that before Atlantic started its CD mastering department (i.e. yours truly), the earliest Atlantic CDs were done by Joe Sidore at Warner in L.A.. Zep "IV" was among those early Atlantic CDs. By the time Atlantic decided to do more Zep CDs, we'd already established the CD mastering department (i.e. gear was purchased and yours truly assigned to be its operator). Best regards, Barry www.soundkeeperrecordings.com www.barrydiamentaudio.com
So, since I don't know how to pull ricks' table of masterings for U2's War from the first version of this thread, this might be a bit confusing. I bought the Island 422 811 CD version, and--mind you, this is on laptop speakers, since my CD player's broken--I prefer it over the P35D on just the track "Sunday Bloody Sunday." The cymbals seems less upfront (which I like) on this disc than they are on the P35D. I used to have the MFSL, but sold it, so I can't compare. I only compared that one song because I eventually will burn a U2 hits CD-R for myself, because their albums never really hooked me. So I will not be reporting on other differences out of sheer, selfish laziness. Well, ok, maybe I'll listen to "New Year's Day" too... If anyone wants to see the table I speak of, they can visit the "Part 1" Essential Barry Diament Masterings thread. It's on more than one page, but the last page is a sure-fire place to find it. And, Mr. Diament, are you interested in hearing this Island 422 811 disc to see if it's your work? If yes, let me know in this thread and we can get some PMs going, and if not, feel free to ignore me!
warren - So, since I don't know how to pull ricks' table of masterings for U2's War from the first version of this thread, this might be a bit confusing. I bought the Island 422 811 CD version, and--mind you, this is on laptop speakers, since my CD player's broken--I prefer it over the P35D on just the track "Sunday Bloody Sunday." The cymbals seems less upfront (which I like) on this disc than they are on the P35D. I used to have the MFSL, but sold it, so I can't compare. I only compared that one song because I eventually will burn a U2 hits CD-R for myself, because their albums never really hooked me. So I will not be reporting on other differences out of sheer, selfish laziness. Well, ok, maybe I'll listen to "New Year's Day" too... If anyone wants to see the table I speak of, they can visit the "Part 1" Essential Barry Diament Masterings thread. It's on more than one page, but the last page is a sure-fire place to find it. And, Mr. Diament, are you interested in hearing this Island 422 811 disc to see if it's your work? If yes, let me know in this thread and we can get some PMs going, and if not, feel free to ignore me! - warren
George, thank you. EDIT: Aw, jeez, the peak levels are different! I only checked the first two, and now I see upon closer inspection that I have this: 1. 89.1 2. 89.1 3. 87.0 4. 97.9 5. 72.4 6. 97.7 7. 95.4 8. 100 9. 100 10. 81.4 Matrix: 422 811 1482 11% AF
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Hi warren, Thank you for the offer. I would do my best but after more than a quarter century, it might not be so easy to tell. It would be easier if I'd received the original mixes to master this one from, instead of the EQ'd limited tape I got. Best regards, Barry www.soundkeeperrecordings.com www.barrydiamentaudio.com
Add: David Thomas Peacock "Grim Determination Meets the Fields of Sorrow" Best regards, Barry www.soundkeeperrecordings.com www.barrydiamentaudio.com
I am really interested in buying cq orderings some albums of that list of Barry Diament mastered albums. The problem for Europeans is that many of them is only easy to find in America; I really would like to order 'Head on the Door' of the Cure at Amazon.com, but I don't like to gamble which of the many is the right one of Diament... Would it be possible for someone, considering all the different issues of some albums, to put also the right years of mastering at that list? (I know it's not easy)
Hi Echo, Know that the "release" date info on Amazon is not always correct; they often show a date a few years after the actual release date. Best regards, Barry www.soundkeeperrecordings.com www.barrydiamentaudio.com
Hi Barry, Yes I know. But a year of (re)mastering is giving me a certain point of starting the search: in that case I know I don't have to look for all the issues before that year....
I suspect this has been covered, but is it safe to say that aside from the Page/Marino remaster, all other versions of "Houses Of The Holy" contain Barry's mastering?
Add: Markus Schwartz & Lakou Brooklyn "Equinox" on Soundkeeper Recordings Best regards, Barry www.soundkeeperrecordings.com www.barrydiamentaudio.com
I picked up a West German CD pressing of AC/DC Back in Black. Is this the same mastering as the domestic Atlantic and is it a BD mastering? thanks
For years, I was of the opinion that my original West German target cd of the Eagles "Long Run" was "the one" (not mastered by Barry). I still think it is fabulous overall, but a couple of days ago, I had some extra time and decided to pull out my Barry version and load both versions into my wav. editing program (Sony Soundforge) to take a look, but more importantly, a listen. Boy, was I in for a shock! I just want to apologize to Barry for even thinking the foolish thought that the WG was better. The BD version was fabulous! Cleaner, bigger, broader, smoother and definitely with better seperation and detail. Very similar to comparing Phil Collins "Face Value" of Barry's work vs. the original version. I will never doubt you again Barry and I am smacking my wrist for being an idiot I am hard pressed to find a counter version to Barry's work which I prefer, I will have to ponder that for a while.....
