Peter Mew question for Steve Hoffman

[Sam]

Steve, can you give us some history on Peter Mew from Abbey Road. How did he get to the position of being able to re-master some of the greatest catalogs in the world. I assume he must have had quite an impressive track record. Who better than you to give the faithful of this forum an insight into this man. I am sure you know more about him than most. Have you worked with him? How do your re-master philosophies differ? How are they the same? Thank you.

[lukpac]

Originally posted by SAM:
How do your re-master philosophies differ?
I can tell you one thing - Steve doesn't drench everything in noise reduction. BLECH!

[Sergio Ruz]

That name, Peter Mew... I think his work on The Beatles "1" and the recent Paul McCartney comp is enough to make a grown up man cry (or reach for his vinyl. In my case, I go straight to my beloved bootlegs).
Do you really want to know about his antics? His disregard for the actual master tapes, and all?
There used to be a really good, revealing interview with Mew on the Hawkwind website, seems it's no longer available there, but hit Google, search for Hawkwind Peter Mew interview and then hit the caché. You'll be appalled, I promise.

[Gary]

Check this out for basic information about Abbey Road and all their engineers. Peter in in "Post Production Engineers".
http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/

I don't think (my opinion only) Steve comments on other Engineers or Studios.

Another opinion (from me): After the Beatles Abbey Road, Alan Parsons and others, it breaks my heart to listen to some of their current efforts.

Where is that "Crying" Instant Graemlin???

[Matt]

They didn't hand Peter Mew the Beatles catalog like some special reward of merit. He remastered them because he works for Abbey Road, and Abbey Road has a continuing working relationship with the Beatles.

If anything, he hasn't done a good job remastering the catalog. The heavy use of NoNoise, and then the overcompensation using a large, unpleasant amount of EQ leaves much of his work sounding a very cold, plastic, and pumped on steroids. People with lower grade stereo systems who like their bass and high-ends pumped up to unusual levels can do it themselves on their own systems. The rest of us shouldn't have to suffer.

[Pope V]

Where is that "Crying" Instant Graemlin???[/QB]

How 'bout this:

http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/ups/kamikaze/smilie_barf.gif PETER MEW

[ October 12, 2001: Message edited by: Pope V ]

[Sckott]

They're making a new video game for Audiophiles. It's going to be for the Mac, PC and Playstation. It's called "Let's hunt, kidnap, and take Peter Mew's Job". Supposedly the 1st few levels are easy, but it gets real hard trying to master like him without losing all your points.

[lukpac]

Are they coming out with a Jon Astley version?

[Sckott]

It failed Beta. Players were upset that trying to kidnap him was to easy. Winning was impossible because by the time you replace him and got that far, the whole Who catalogue gets reissued, he gets credit anyway, and the layers fees put you in Chapter 11. Game over.

[Unknown]

I tried to grab the Alan Klien version for my Linux box but thing wouldn't even compile in the first place.

[ October 13, 2001: Message edited by: Browserman ]

[wes]

Heheheheh Pretty good.

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Now if only there was a game we could kidnap Mew drop him off in Afghanistan and hold Abbey Road Studios ransom, fly Steve Hoffman in to take over.. that could almost fit in a South Park episode. Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny would be in on it.

-Wes

[Paul C.]

LOL! - LOVE that barfin smiley!