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Originally Posted by martinus
I do think, however, that there would be no point in creating a remaster that sounds exactly like the original.
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But to be fair to DOA, he never ever stated that he wanted anything to sound exactly like the originals - that would just be pointless. But we
do expect the remixes to be at least as good - or in fact, much better than the originals.
And the remixes that I have heard (on the Turn It On Again Tour Edition CD) are exactly as DOA described - flat, harsh and messy due to over-zealous compression and EQing. It also sounds 'over-excited' (over-use of an Audio Exciter, a tool that adds brightness and harmonics to a track that is considered too dull). This may be a symptom of ageing, abused ears of rock musicians and producers assessing the mixes.
Compare these with the remixes on the
original Turn It On Again CD. It's like night and day. And I can only put this down to the different styles of mastering used for each of the TIOA versions.
It is because of this awful mastering (and it was pretty bad on the 76-82 set also, IMO - I mean, who seriously can prefer the new squashed stereo mix of Abacab to the near-perfect Hugh Padgham version) that I have sadly declined to buy the 83-97 set.
Sorry if this p!sses off those that bought and love the set. It's just that I humbly disagree that the (stereo at least) mix is actually better (on the samples I have heard) than before.
