SH Spotlight I'm asked stuff: Favorite mastering engineer, best BOSTON CD, best TRAVELING WILBURYS CD, etc..

How different are the DCC and AP versions of Bayou Country? Significant or minimal? Apologies if this has been asked before.

 

Steve, do you have any room treatment at home?

 

Yes, I bought those two comps and at least according to Discogs, you mastered them, the first 0.20 or 0.30 seconds of those two songs were cut off, maybe there was a problem with the tapes you received

 

Steve, I have two questions
1: Have you ever mastered a digitally recorded album or song? Or do you only work with analog recordings? If the case is the first, which digitally recorded album/song did you master?
2: Which album was the easiest for you to find the original master tapes on DCC/Audio Fidelity?

 

Regarding #1, I know he mastered Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required", which was a digital recording. I know there are threads about mastering that album on this forum.

 

HA! Same as me, a 12x12 rug!

 

Yeah, me neither.

 

Someone had to say it.

 

Thanks for this. Very interesting and informative, "arguably the best source for some of the songs" a whole lot better than I was expecting.
I still have not got around to cleaning it yet. Which will most likely happen sometime late january.... Since it's christmas now and then I'm off to Thailand for a couple of weeks on the 2nd.
According to the seller, he purchased it still sealed and only played it once. So it should sound pretty good.
One of the issues with half-speed mastering is the sound is a bit "off" or wierd. The half speed Blood on the Tracks is like that, plus some others. If I understand it then, this one does not suffer from the slightly wonky sound problem?
The Ella set arrive last week too, it will get cleaned at the same time. What I like about the Ella set is it's all Decca era stuff, right before she switched to Verve. An underrepresented period in my collection.
There is a nice German LP though of all the Decca era stuff Ella and Louis did together. 1949 - 1952. This sounds great IMO.

 

Do you remember where the defect on One for my Baby is?
When I do finally play the set
I am starting to think this may become one of the more played sets, next to the Japanese compilation, "The Hit Maker"

 

Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans "Know What I Mean?" -- AP SACD vs. DCC Gold CD

Perhaps this is my answer. Sorry Steve, shouldn't have asked what may have been perceived as a bit of a loaded question. Didn't mean it that way. I've recently been looking to fill out and possibly upgrade my CCR collection and already had the DCC from years back. Paid $10 for a sealed copy in '95 from a shop that was going out of business. I was also able to pick up copies of Seger's Night Moves and Ronstadt's Greatest Hits that you had remastered for $10 each as well.

 

Anything in particular that the industry has fedback good or bad about (being influenced by) this forum?

 

Heres one for you. 45 rpm singles.
I have been playing some of the 7" 45 rpm singles I've accumulated, more by whim than design over the last few weeks and I am amazed at how good some of them sound. Much better than the album cuts.
Some are not so good, but a few I've really liked have been for example:
Down in Mexico / Little Egypt, the coasters - the reissue/re-recorded later version
Some James Brown stuff, Out of sight, etc.
Rolling Stones, Honky Tonk Women, Shattered, Brown Sugar
Annette funicello and the beach boys, The Monkey Uncle. Although on this one, it's not the beach boys playing, it's the wrecking crew. Tommy Tedesco on guitar and Hal Blaine on drums - a real standout.
Muddy Waters, Short dress woman, The same thing/you can't lose what you ain't never had - these old chess 45's are great!

So why do these 45s sound so good?
Is it becuase they were done direct from the master?
Was it mastering choices?

 

What I am noticing is for some reason the Atlantic 45's sound pretty much uniformly great. So good I've taken a punt and ordered Led Zepps Immigrant Song on 45 7" single on Discogs
Any reason for hte Atlantic stuff to sound so good?
Or am I being fooled by boosted level and treble?

 

B.

 

Maybe they should start bleeding listening.

 

Cool with me.

 

Maybe they should listen a little harder.