Just listened to the Two Against Nature 5.1 mix from the DVD-A. Now I'm listening to the Everything Must Go 5.1 mix. Both are excellent Elliot Scheiner 5.1 mixes.
Thanks for that heads up. I cant imagine buying this from a UK retailer is going to cost more than getting it to the UK from somewhere else.
Why using copy tapes for AJA and Gaucho? What happened to the original masters?? Roger Nichols made flat early digital copies in 1984 to an early 3M digital tape. He did'nt say any masters were missing at that time. I believe these digital copy tapes were used as a source for most CD reissues? right? What did Mobil Fidelity use as a master tape source for their AJA CD and LP? I did read somewhere that ABC/MCA lost their master tape of side B of AJA, but Roger Nichols had mixed down to two decks at the same time so that there was two first generation master tapes. He kept one set, and it was his Side B tape that was copied for the CD release. What was the master tape used for the Gaucho SACD? They obviously still had the multi tracks because the 5.1 mix of Gaucho is awesome! Seems odd they can't find the original first generation master for Gaucho.
The Gaucho masters must have disintegrated very early on because all that's been used as sources for 40 years has been either the original digital copy or analog copy tapes. The analog multis are still there though. The 2003 Gaucho SACD used the early digital copy, while the 2010 SHM-SACD used a japanese analog copy tape (and sounds great!). Apparently a lot of the analog masters (stereo and multis) for Aja have been missing for some time.
I''ve pre-orders for all the sacds with them and did get me my AP Animals on time with no nasty surprises.
Agreed. As for SACD... only new multichannel mixes of those albums currently only available in stereo would get my attention. Jeff
~2.5 years ago, in course of litigation, UMG revealed a list of artists whose masters had been destroyed in the fire. Steely Dan not mentioned. See here on SHF.
Right, but the master tapes were missing for a long time. So no previous digital versions used the right source?
Maybe it is not that the analog tape masters were missing (apart from Gaucho), but that they considered the digital transfers supervised in the early 80s as the masters.
If Roger Nichols held the masters, then the record label would have to negotiate with his estate to use them, correct? Or can the label use them because they paid for the recordings?
I just looked on Acoustic Sounds, and the Can't Buy a Thrill SACD is no longer listed in the Coming Soon section! I searched for it and it now says 'Arrival Date to be Announced' rather than Nov. 4. Grrrr!
yeah,I bet the UHQR is coming out on 11/04 while the SACD has been pushed back for a reason.The reason is much more $$$ in the UHQR to AP!
Music Direct has: Availability: November 4, 2022 Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill (Hybrid Stereo SACD) (They have Nov 25th release date for last two Eagle's SACDs) Search
Bernie is mastering for everything, and from the tapes in the video. He's even going to master a digital copy they can cut the none AP records from.
