Another Remastering of The Lillywhite Sessions

Coldchillin · Unread post by **Coldchillin** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:58 pm

Thanks Matt, I appreciate it.

mattinbeloit · Unread post by **mattinbeloit** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:39 pm

Also, I'm going to try and get these up in FLAC on yousendit but it is taking a while. So for those audiophiles out there like me, you can have the flacs. I have work in a few minutes but they are loading, hopfully I can have links up by tonight, my easter present to all you biatches...

mattinbeloit · Unread post by **mattinbeloit** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:44 pm

help, i want to get these started asap. Yousendit will not let me post anything over 50mb anymore. I remember someone psoting about a new site that is good, what is it, i cant find it and I have searched a few times.....

mattinbeloit · Unread post by **mattinbeloit** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:45 pm

Never mind... Got this off UFCK, better hurry though, just deleat the hxxp thing to get it to go...

Busted Stuff
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/780EC5F419D4F760

Grey Street
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/83E8484002891E62

Digging A Ditch
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/019CE5AC1A958147

Sweet Up And Down
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/3579C2FD15B08D9A

JTR
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/5689A5AF5E59FE86

Big Eyed Fish
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/C26866605E3944E9

Grace Is Gone
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/74C9D2E67E8B09CD

Captain
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/AAB09844022BB7F2

Bartender
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/C2DD2B9A1B8E7400

Monkey Man
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/6C9A954923AE31F5

Kit Kat Jam
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/79F92890224D546F

Raven
hxxp://download.yousendit.com/9A692D2135461F36

TikiGod · Unread post by **TikiGod** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:31 pm

Thanks for the yousendit uploads! Definitely interested in checking out this version and comparing it to the other remaster... I'll let you guys kniow how I liked it when I give them a listen.

SillyPutty · Unread post by **SillyPutty** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:40 pm

Thanks for sharing your server space Nitro...and to Matt for the review.

Cheers to people sharing.

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:57 pm

yea
thx dudes

mattinbeloit · Unread post by **mattinbeloit** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:17 pm

I never thought I would say this but Jesus christ! This album just goes to show how much Lillywhite fucking rocks... I can hardly listen to any of the busted stuff versions now, god... What a great album.

sunglassesatnight · Unread post by **sunglassesatnight** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:29 pm

Thanks for the info Gianni and thanks for the links to the lossless files Matt.

They sound pretty damn good I'd say. Care to provide a link to the process this guy used?

mattinbeloit · Unread post by **mattinbeloit** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:47 pm

This is what the guy said...

"Well I was never a fan of DMB in the first place. Back in 2002 an online friend asked me to take a whirl at putting the "final" touches on the original LEAKED DAT source for his own personal collection, as he was very pleased with my other professional mastering work. We worked out a deal and I took the ORIGINAL SHN files (that I had downloaded the year before) to a very nice (now out of business) mastering studio I had contract work with.
The files were burnt to a CD-R first and foremost then ran through, one track at a time, through thousdands of dollars worth of ANALOG gear, such as a White 1/3 Octave Parametric EQ, Apogee A/D-D/A Converters (sorry they were 16bit and 44.1kHz no upsampling here) and a Manley tube compressor set at a very low ratio. Also went through some image balancing (in other words each channel was tweeked by ear to sound in perfect stereo with the vocal and snare and kick perfectly aligned up the front). All files were burned at 2x to a Tayio Yuden CD-R using CD Architect. There were some minor fades applied to all trax as well as pro dithering and quantiziation noise.
In english...it is as good a professional copy as you will find. Not to toot my own horn... but I have yet to hear another "master/remaster" of this title that sounds this good.

In comparison to the other remasters out there: This one is slightly quieter, BUT this works very well. It creates way more dynamic range. If you look at the WAVs themselves, you can see they are limited but the meat and potatoes of the song has plenty of room to breathe. I can hear no distortion caused by the minor limiting that was done. The limiting that was performed, as well as the fades and dithering & quantization, were the ONLY digital steps done on the computer before final burn.

As well: this CD was never mastered in the first place, so the point in calling it a remaster is actually false. but this way it remains in the trading circles properly labelled in connection with the other "masters/remasters" of this title.

Note on the actual music: Again I was never a big fan of DMB, but working on this CD and being a fan of Steve Lillywhite's previous work and just coming out of a 6 year realtionship and being drunk half the time - I got hooked. It is the only album I enjoy of theirs and was not terribly impressed with the actual release Busted Stuff. Thought that one sounded sterile.

Anyways, I am sure there are lots of you who will grab this. Please leave comments (good & bad) about the sound and quality. I am curious to know...

ENJOY!"

sunglassesatnight · Unread post by **sunglassesatnight** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:00 pm

Thanks, I didn't realize it did it on hardware, and because of that I couldn't figure out what the A/D and D/A was for.

Lbacker · Unread post by **Lbacker** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:02 pm

Thanks for the DL's guys

6_strings_for_life · Unread post by **6_strings_for_life** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:14 pm

ok now i have three versions of this album on my computer...

and I wouldnt want it any other way

Coldchillin · Unread post by **Coldchillin** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:51 am

So is this worth another download?

Nitro1515 · Unread post by **Nitro1515** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:08 am

Coldchillin wrote:So is this worth another download?

yes

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