In Reply to: ? for David posted by John PA on November 25, 2000 at 10:57:33:
John sez:"Much of the Beatles were recorded this way from what I understand. I agree whole heartidly that some great music was, to me, destroyed by this method. Is there any way to remaster any of this?"
And John Lennon...and George Harrison...and ELO...and the Traveling Wilburys....
:-(
In theory, *if* good session tapes exist...and if they weren't companded, EQ'ed, and "mixed" to a "master tape" which was then copied to multiple "safety/dub copies," allowing the studio to lose, mislabel, or destroy the session tapes...then something might be done. By a gifted mastering engineer with access to the original notes or the musicians. If he has the time and resources.
Of course, if everything was given the ol' "shake and bake" *before* putting it onto reel, then all bets are off.
(Sigh!)
Steve Hoffman of DCC is really "dah man" when it comes to lotsa' experience on this. Steve, care to comment?
david
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- Re: ? for David (Another call for Steve Hoffman!) - David W. Robinson 23:16:08 11/25/00 (2)
- Re: That is assuming they didn't just EQ, compand/compress etc... - John-from Seattle 09:45:15 11/26/00 (1)
- Re: That is assuming they didn't just EQ, compand/compress etc... - David W. Robinson 10:57:43 11/26/00 (0)