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Oh Frank. Has Isaac returned?

I wonder why they wouldn't stick to the MOFO mix for Freak Out. It sounds a lot better and new Frank fans are not all that likely to buy MOFO anyway. Same goes for Greasy Love Songs and Ruben. Hey, why not package both mixes on one CD?

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My only guess is that they don't want to make MOFO and GLS obsolete, especially since they're only a few years old.

What I'm curious about is the Ryko albums that aren't part of the official 60, stuff like Lather and The Lost Episodes. Are they going to be part of this reissue campaign, or are they going to slip out of print?

I did it.... I pre-ordered the new Hot Rats for €8.99 (it was 9.99 but they sent me a €1 voucher). (http://www.ie.wowhd.com/)

They will have similar audio characteristics, but not identical. I've already outlined my position on it, others agree with me and others seem to agree with you.

The very fact that it's a 2008 remaster of the original mix means nothing less than they've somewhat altered the sound. I'm not saying they didn't use the original mix, just that it won't sound exactly like the original and it won't, no matter how hard you try to make me believe you, it won't.

I'm now withdrawing from this debate with you as I've made myself clear and it's obvious you either have a mental block or limited understanding of the mastering process and you still didn't answer any of my points.

You've actually made my point for me, I have been saying from the beginning that it will sound different, you now agree with me and say;

"No remaster is ever going to resemble an old mastering exactly. It's fucking impossible"

That's all I've been saying from the beginning.

you then say

"There is no such thing as "unmastered".

Yes there is lol, that's a track straight out of the mix that's not been mastered.

And of course the original was mastered, this is a remaster so will sound different from the original master regardless of whether they're from the same tapes or not.

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Answer my points please, if you have the will to try and belittle me in public, please do the decent thing and respond to my post.

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Amen

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I see, so when they say is it's a 2008 re-master, they're actually lying to us so we're all stupid enough to buy it??? This is your big theory??? Nice attempt to try and wriggle out of it

You need to make your mind up. Yesterday you were telling the world that mastering was simply transferring the audio from analog to digital and encoding it at 24bit/96khz and 16bit/44khz, now it's all this other stuff as well......make your mind up, or shut the fuck up

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You said it was the same numbnut!!!!! My whole point from the beginning was that it would not sound exactly the same as the original....that was my fucking point you monstrous moron.

You obviously now realise you're a total fucking douchebag and like Thinman, are backtracking on what you originally said.

Jesus fuck man

I can't talk to you anymore, it's like talking to my 15 year old dog and she's deaf.

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You are hahahahaha, the pair of you

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@TCS: Your point was, as I understood (and probably misunderstood) you, that remastering inevitably alters the sound of the source. I said no. It can, but it doesn't have to if you don't want to (the process you call encoding). I don't talk about nuances and "flavours" of converters. I always consider several possibilities. For you there seems to be only one way all the time in everything.

We don't know about the kind of sources the ZFT has at hand for the releases. Are they 2-track mix-downs or are they 2-track masters? That is a huge difference. Normally it is talked about 2-track masters that are already mastered. In the best case those 2-track masters would simply have to be transferred and encoded for the target medium without altering the sound ("double tweezed").

Th.

P.S.: Only for a short moment, after having exchanged private messages with you a short while ago, I considered the possibiltiy that you are not an asshole. Reading all your recent posts here proves different. Your behaviour is hopeless.

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re: Hot Rats. my thoughts about 2008 remaster...

What it really all comes down to is that the new CD will be so close to the original LP mix that NO ONE will be able to really tell the fucking difference anyway.

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1. I never said that the ZFT is lying. I was talking about the record industry in general and the remaster-marketing-hype. I thought the questions of duchamp pointed in that general direction and not the ZFT and/or the HR remaster in specific.
2. I never said that remastering is always just a transfer. There is a mixup of the terms sometimes: pre-mastering, mastering, re-mastering. Pre-mastering is the tweezage after the mixdown. Mastering is the technical process (at the plant) to make it manufacturable. Sometimes even those two terms are exchanged and confused. Re-Mastering can be understood as a new "re-pre-mastering" from the mixdown or simply the technical process (at the plant) to make an existing master compatible to a new medium, or to just take advantage of new technologioes to get rid of the limitations of earlier versions. Or "double tweezing" of something that is already tweezed. Lots of possibilities. Unfortunately it is, in most cases today, the latter. I'm sorry if there is only one for you.

This all is nothing I have invented myself. So I don't have to "make my mind up".



I simply asked you to explain your understanding of remastering, etc. to the public on this forum, to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. You did that. Why should I respond?

Please read and think before posting in the future.

Th.

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For the most part, this is correct. I wouldn't go so far as to say NO ONE will be able to tell the difference, but it will be very few.

The bottom line is that there are only two mixes of Hot Rats: the original LP mix and the Ryko CD mix. Only the Ryko CDs and subsequent cassettes have the Ryko CD mix. Every other release contains the original LP mix, albeit with different masterings (the reverb-laden Old Masters LP being the worst version of this).

The upcoming CD will contain the original LP mix (via the 2008 remaster). It will be the first CD release to do so, AFAIK.

The original was mixed in 1969. Frank remixed the album for CD in 1986 or 1987. It has not been remixed any other time.

Why are you explaining yourself to this idiot? It's obvious that he's clueless. Let him blather on and on about stuff he doesn't understand. He'll be graduating from high school pretty soon, and he will finally be able to take some audio courses at a community college of his choosing.

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Don't give me your facetious bullshit man. You know exactly what you said and what you were attempting to do. You should have responded because I had the decency to reply to your insulting post and you did say that a remaster was an industry trick to get people to buy the releases after yesterday claiming that mastering was simply encoding tracks at 24bit/96khz and 16bit/44khz....you fucking said it, go back and read what you said.

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That was very fucking decent of you, thanks for your kindness.

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Gail said that the CDs will be clearly marked as to what the sources are. Great if you are actually holding one in a store. But what about the online listings? THAT FUCKING INFO SHOULD ALREADY BE AVAILABLE BY NOW!!

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I'm 38 (in 12 days), married with 4 kids, run a record label with global distribution and I'm also currently doing my honours year of a politics degree. What do you do numbnut? It's obvious I don't have a clue and you and Thinman know everything you're talking about, so lay the goods on the table.

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I know that he is not clueless. If he really is the person behind the links in his signature, I even have to say that I appreciate much of his stuff.

I think he may be just a hot-tempered, irascible person, who feels insulted early on in every discussion. I don't know the reason for this (drug abuse, alcohol, desease, heartbreak, too much or not enough work …?). He may have proven for me that he might be an asshole on this forum, but I don't know if he is one in real life. Strangely when having contact via PM, sometimes people are surprisingly polite and very different from their forum personality.

@TCS: Stop yelling, calm down! You are taking this forum and the discussions way too serious and too personal. You are even worse than what I have sometimes been accused for. Not every discussion you are involved in must result in arguments, yelling and insultments.

Th.

P.S.: And most of the time I do not take your outbreaks on this forum too serious, too. It even amuses me most of the time, just like Jaypfunk's never ending collection of favourite insults.

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All that with Downs Syndrome? Well good for you!

Thinman, I don't really have a problem with you, but I generally don't insult people unless I am insulted. If someone insults me, then I will insult them back....I see that as being quite fair.

My main issue with you was not so much what you said, but what you insinuated with your invitation. I explained myself in a very nice manner without insult and you didn't even have the decency to reply. I found that in itself insulting and impolite.

Incidentally, my hot-headedness is not the result of drink/drugs/heartbreak etc etc. It's just been my nature since childhood and if I believe that someone is being confrontational with me, then they will get it back. I'm generally quite a calm person until that point.

I still maintain that a 2008 Re-master cannot and will not sound exactly the same as the original mix. However, I'm not going to talk about it anymore.

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Thanks, that's very kind of you. In that one sentence, you've managed to crytallise exactly what you are, an ignorant bully with no substance.

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Now that was quite funny I do have the ability to laugh at myself too

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Double-LOL!

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