What is on your remastering wish list ?

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Originally Posted by LFF 

Remastered stuff I would buy in a heart beat:

Entire Capitol & Reprise Era Frank Sinatra including dedicated mono mixes done by Steve Hoffman.
Entire Capitol Era Nat King Cole including dedicated mono mixes done by Steve Hoffman.
Entire Capitol & Reprise Era Dean Martin including dedicated mono mixes done by Steve Hoffman.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication done by Steve Hoffman
TOOL - all albums redone by Steve Hoffman
Complete Led Zeppelin Catalog remixed and remastered by Steve Hoffman.
The Beatles - all albums remixed and remastered by Steve Hoffman.
Rolling Stones - all albums remastered by Steve Hoffman.

Dude, no offence, but are you serious? You'd like to have all Tool albums remastered? Did you listen to Lateralus? Man, even their first official record (Opiate) sounds good. Lateralus is soundwise actually one of the greatest(!) rock/metal records I have ever heard, and hey, I have heard many records. I actually dislike quite a number of records David Bottrill (producer of this record) mixed/produced, but his job on Lateralus is truly, TRULY precious. Most people are like "dynamics, dynamics, dynamics!", but this is not the whole story. Lateralus is not just a record with a lot of headroom, but it is also... Hell, I can't even describe it. To me, it's as if I can just put my hand into that record and grab whatever instrument I like. Nothing is muffled, distant in an annoying way that probably wasn't intended by the artist(s), there is no ridiculous amount of compression - it is just the talent of this band, tinned. This is how refined it is, this is how music ought to be recorded/produced/mixed/mastered. It sounds great without HDCD decoding, and with it sounds even better. Technically, there is no remastering needed. And hey, I'm not planning to sound cocky here, but I think that I'm not alone with this opinion.

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Originally Posted by non-entity 

 

Dude, no offence, but are you serious? You'd like to have all Tool albums remastered? Did you listen to Lateralus? Man, even their first official record (Opiate) sounds good. Lateralus is soundwise actually one of the greatest(!) rock/metal records I have ever heard, and hey, I have heard many records. I actually dislike quite a number of records David Bottrill (producer of this record) mixed/produced, but his job on Lateralus is truly, TRULY precious. Most people are like "dynamics, dynamics, dynamics!", but this is not the whole story. Lateralus is not just a record with a lot of headroom, but it is also... Hell, I can't even describe it. To me, it's as if I can just put my hand into that record and grab whatever instrument I like. Nothing is muffled, distant in an annoying way that probably wasn't intended by the artist(s), there is no ridiculous amount of compression - it is just the talent of this band, tinned. This is how refined it is, this is how music ought to be recorded/produced/mixed/mastered. It sounds great without HDCD decoding, and with it sounds even better. Technically, there is no remastering needed. And hey, I'm not planning to sound cocky here, but I think that I'm not alone with this opinion.

None taken and yes...I am serious.

Lateralus doesn't sound bad on CD. The vinyl sounds so much better though and I always wonder what an engineer like Hoffman could add to it. It's not bad but I am willing to bet it could sound great.
 

I have never heard the vinyl version, but I have heard and read several times that the vinyl version of Lateralus actually sounds disappointing. It is one of these picture discs, right? Well, I've got to admit that I never heard that version myself; it is hard to get in my area. Then again, I am just not really interested to spend a lot of money for it because I'm happy with the redbook version...