[kj] Remasters

[Mark Kolmar]

About "louder" -- Over the years I've ripped tracks from the previous
edition CDs, and the peaks were about 6dB down.  It looked like
someone just recorded the master tapes onto a DAT with lots of
headroom and put them on CDs.  Peaks 6dB down means the 16th bit is
generally unused.  That means there was plenty of room for the new CDs
to sound louder -- almost twice as loud, really -- without squashing
any of the dynamics.  (Maybe a bit of sensible peak limiting.)  They
are nicely done.  Sometimes CDs get over-squashed, where it should
sound like OoOoOo, but comes out OOOOOO.

--Mark

On 8/1/05, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Not that it's of any consequence in the slightest, but I weighed in on the remasters on my new waste of time..er..weblog. I also took the liberty, for aesthetic purposes, of "borrowing" a few images from Antoni's site (specifically sleeve artwork). So please don't be pissed off, Antoni (if you'd have even noticed otherwise). I just thought was a good idea to own up to theft when I committ it, unlike, say, Smash Palace.
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> See if you agree with me:  http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2005/08/the_joke_remast.html
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> Yoiks & Away, as they say.
> 
> Alex in NYC