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In Reply to: Re: FYI . . . posted by Martin419 on September 1, 2005 at 08:16:02:
That was due to the fact that completely different companies own the release rights to the Dire Straits material in Europe than in the US. BIA came out on Warner in the US, and Warner has never put a SPARS code on their pop/rock CDs in the US (with the exception of the '80s releases on the Island label, which was owned by Warner at the time). In Europe, however, BIA came out on Mercury (Vertigo), owned by PolyGram (now part of Universal Music Group) -- and they've been putting SPARS codes on their CDs since the early days of CD.
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And many of the early adaptors of CD wanted "DDD" CD and would refuse to buy "AAD" or "ADD" CDs. Warner didn't want to loose sales for such a stupid reason so never used the SPARs code.So Racerguy is correct the USA Warner BIA CD had no SPARs code and Martin's UK Vertigo does.
Look below and you will see they are both arguing which one is right for about 15 posts when they are both right. In the UK I am sure there are people who bought BIA because it was "DDD" but this was not the case in the USA.
Also some of my best sounding recordings in either SACD or DVD-Audio are from Analog recordings. The best Dire Staits recording is Love over Gold and it is pure analog.
Hope this helps guys and quite arguing when you are both right!
Teresa
The correct SPARS code for BIA would have been "DAD" (Digital recording, Analog mix, Digital mastering) -- but that combination did not exist at the time the various SPARS codes were first introduced. Hence, Mercury/Vertigo was forced to use the code "DDD."
The ironic thing is that it wasn't even a "DAD", since the first letter should actually be a combination of "A" and "D". ;-)(The slave reels were analog, coupled to the DASH's 24 digital tracks.)
In other words, the three letters of the SPARS code are simply not enough to designate hybrid digital/analog recordings. They had to use either A or D -- and any hybrids would have required a four-letter SPARS code, which the industry never even considered. (Mixes are done on either digital tape or analog tape; that signifies the second letter in the three-letter SPARS code. And the SPARS code made no mention of whether a digital mixing console or an analog mixing console is used, since there were very few digital mixing consoles in existence at the time the SPARS code was adopted.)And they can't call BIA "AAD" or "ADD," either, because the recording is partially digital.
But because of a very loose rule for "digital" compliance, they had to call BIA a "DDD" recording, because it was mixed on digital tape (assuming the digital master is used in the CD mastering), and any digital at all whatsoever is involved in the basic recording (even if analog equipment is used).
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