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Scores You Would Like to See Remastered
Joined: 12/31/69
#50re: Scores You Would Like to See Remastered
Posted: 4/26/07 at 9:07pm
Actually as someone on the Sondheim forum pointed out Merrily's cast album (on vinyl it had fairly elaborate packaging) was touted as "digitally recorded". SO a few were already recorded or mastered with digital means (even though Merrily didn't hit CD till 86 I think...) but SUnday was indeed the first full DDD recording (I think CD cases have pretty much given up on listing if they're AAD, ADD or DDD anymore). Thomas Sheperd mentions in Sondheim and Co. how thrilling he found listening to those openign chords against pure silence.
Still most CDs pressed in the 80s--at least until 88 or 89 can do with a remastering to match current CDs--or try to match. Recording levels were much lower then, etc. But the present vogue (granted more in pop music than with musicals which don't sell that much) to remaster even mid or late 1990s albums is just insane IMHO and a marketing gimmick.
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Understudy Joined: 10/23/06
#51re: Scores You Would Like to See Remastered
Posted: 4/27/07 at 1:28am
Good topic.
A lot of the online websites for record companies have feedback on them. So, undoubtedly, that would be one way to get the albums remastered faster. (I have been utilizing the Sony website a lot lately for various reissues that fall under the Sony label, as well as ALW site for an Evita APR remaster.)
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