Essential Barry Diament masterings

Hi phish,

Are you saying the vinyl for "Rebel Music" says I mastered it?
If so, it is wrong.
If my name is there, I'd suspect they may have used the CD master I created when cutting the vinyl but I did not master the vinyl.

Best regards,
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

90125 mastering is credited to the WCI Group but it was explained to me that was just a go-between for the labels and manufacturers and not a place that actually pre-mastered the albums.

BTW, 90125 is perfect. I don't care if it's from an EQ'd tape, it sounds amazing.

 

re: Dokken - Breaking The Chains (CD, Album) Elektra


Was this ever remastered? I ask because my Elektra CD (credited to Barry) has quite a bit of clipping during tracks. Very different from 'Under Lock And Key'. A lot louder, also.

 

Hi Brian81,

From your description, it sounds like it was re-mastered but the artwork not updated. Clipped and loud doesn't sound like something I'd have done.

Best regards,
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

Hi Jamie,

Thanks.

As to "WCI Group", many of the first Atlantic CDs were done out at Warner Brothers in LA by Joe Sidore. These are the ones that should have been credited WCI Group.
Actually, I believe they should have been credited to Joe Sidore but in any event, most of the ones he did said "WCI Group" so that is what those words can be taken to mean.

***
A memory cell just flashed. There was another Yes CD I believe I might have done. Was the album called "Drama"? I remember a refrain where they sang "I am a camera". I think the song was "Into the Lens"?

Best regards,
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

Yeah, that's on Drama. Great!

 

says......

"remastered from the original tapes by barry diament.
barry diament audio, nyc and rob fraboni"

 

Hi Barry, Do you know if it was Joe Sidore who mastered the 'Pretenders S/T' target CD?

Thanks.

 

Robert Palmer's Riptide. Fantastic album, fantastic sound. Barry i was wondering if you could also shed some light on something. In the CD booklet it says that the album is a full digital recording and yet on the back of the CD case it states "The music on this compact disc was recorded on analog equipment, we have...". Do you remember if it was indeed a digital recording. I've always wondered if it was since this is the only CD i have come across where it states a DDD recording but has the well known "This compact disc was recorded on analog equipment...". Thanks in advance!

 

Which 90125 are you referring to Jamie? The original non-remastered CD?

If so, I believe I've seen Barry post that while they use the same mastering, the West Germany target, the Japan for U.S., and the U.S. for U.S. do not sound the same, with the Japan for U.S. being the lesser of the three.

 

Hi phish,

As I said, they may have used the CD master I created as the source, instead of the original analogs- if they wanted to try and match the sound I got on the CD.

Best regards,
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

Hi Scott,

If that is the first Pretenders album you're talking about, I don't know for sure but would bet it was Joe.

Best regards,
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

Hi jv66,

I believe "Riptide" was recorded on analog tape but the "mixes" I was given were, if memory serves, on a 3/4" digital U-matic tape (the same format we used to create CD masters in those days). This is the format I got most Genesis tapes in as well. And Island first sent me the Marleys this way too. Happily, when I called them to say the CDs I was about to make were what folks would be listening to for years to come and what were they saving the masters for, Island responded by overnighting me the original mixes.

The statement on the back of "Riptide", "The music on this Compact Disc..." was probably put on automatically by the art department. Just as with the mastering credit, ultimately, it is a coincidence if it is correct.

In those days, the statement on the back was used in my view, as a CYA to "explain" why the "perfect" sound wasn't perfect.
The other statement, the "DDD", was an effort to say it was "perfect".

Best regards,
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

that can't be a bad thing, right!

 

Thank you Barry. Wish i could write that on some of my reports.

 

And they do this by blaming it on the analog link in the chain? Weird. I never understood that 'warning'.

 

Just scored a used copy of Barry's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, and I must say it is a sonic treat.


Evan

 

I think this is up to date from the posts. Please make changes as necessary,


AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
AC/DC - Who Made Who

Bad Company – Bad Company
Bad Company – Straight Shooter
Bad Company – 10 out of 6
The Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full Of Blues (CD) Atlantic, WEA International Inc.
Tommy Bolin - The Ultimate CD
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars (CD, Album) Geffen Records

John Cage & The Arditti Quartet - The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 (CD, Album) Mode
Chic - C'est Chic (?)
The Coasters - The Ultimate Coasters (maybe)
Cowboy Mouth - Word of Mouth
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far

Danzig - Danzig (CD, Album) American Recordings
Dr. Fiorella Terenzi - Music From The Galaxies (CD) Island Records (US)
Dokken - Under Lock And Key (CD) Elektra
Dokken - Breaking The Chains (CD, Album) Elektra
Dokken - Under Lock & Key

The Eagles – The Eagles (CD)
The Eagles – Desperado CD
The Eagles - Hotel California CD
The Eagles – The Long Run (CD)
The Eagles - Greatest Hits (?)
The Eagles - Greatest Hits Volume 2 (?)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (CD) Atlantic
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (CD, Album) Atlantic, Columbia House
Enya - Watermark

Aretha Franklin - best of (?)

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (?)
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Genesis - Duke
Genesis - Abacab
Genesis - Three Sides Live
The Georgia Satellites - The Gerogia Satellites CD, Album) Elektra
Guns’N’Roses - Appetite For Destruction (CD, Album) Geffen Records
Guns’N’Roses - G N' R Lies (CD) Geffen Records, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc.

Hex - Hex (CD, Album) First Warning Records
Hex (LP) Demon Records 1990

INXS - Listen Like Thieves (CD, Album) Atlantic

Grace Jones - Island Life

Keeler - Autofocus (CD) Great Orm Productions
Tommy Keene - Based On Happy Times CD
Kitaro - The Light Of The Spirit (CD, Album) Geffen Records, Geffen Records
KMFDM - Glory (CD) Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (CD, Album) Atlantic
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - III
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (2xCD) Swan Song
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (2xCD) Swan Song
Led Zeppelin - Presence (CD,Album) Atlantic, Swan Song
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Led Zeppelin - Coda

Bob Marley - Catch A Fire (CD) Tuff Gong
Bob Marley - Burnin'
Bob Marley - Natty Dread
Bob Marley - Live! (CD, Album) Tuff Gong, Island Records
Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration (CD) Tuff Gong
Bob Marley - Exodus
Bob Marley - Kaya (CD) Tuff Gong, Island Records
Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus
Bob Marley - Survival (CD, Album) Tuff Gong, Island Records
Bob Marley - Uprising (CD) Island Records (Germany)
Bob Marley - Confrontation (CD) Tuff Gong, Island Records
Bob Marley - Bob On Bob: Marley Does Dylan (K-Tel)
Bob Marley - Legend

Mike + The Mechanics - Mike + The Mechanics
Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love (CD, Album) Hip-O Records, Mötley Records

Nico - The Marbel Index
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (TVT Records)
Nu Shooz - Poolside (CD)

Of Cabbages And Kings - Hunter's Moon (CD) Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier, Triple X Records
Of Cabbages And Kings - Never Too Late (CD) Triple X Records
Benjamin Orr - The Lace (CD, Album) Elektra

Robert Palmer – Riptide CD

The Rascals - Ultimate CD
Ratt - Dancing Undercover (CD) Atlantic
Otis Redding - Ultimate Otis Redding CD
Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams

Simply Red - Men And Women
Slayer - South Of Heaven (CD, Album) American Recordings 2002
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Stacey Q - Better Than Heaven
The Sun And The Moon - Sun And The Moon (CD, Album) Geffen Records

Pete Townshend - All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Pete Townshend - Psychoderelict (CD, Album) Atlantic 1993
Pete Townshend - White City
Pete Townshend - Deep End Live
Pete Townshend - Scoop (?)
Pete Townshend - Another Scoop (?)

Underworld - Born Slippy (CD) Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records
U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky (CD, Album) Island Masters
U2 - October (CD) Island

Various - Atlantic Soul Classics
Various - Stand By Me (soundtrack)
Various - Woodstock - Music From The Original Soundtrack And More (2xCD) Atlantic

Work Of Art - Lift (Soundkeeper Recordings - SR4001)
Work Of Art - Simplicity (Sword in the Stone Records - SSR54)

Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Close To The Edge (CD, Album) Atlantic
Yes - 90125

Warren Zevon - A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon (CD) Asylum

 

And Barry said he did Yes - Drama.

 

A little side note, I just got my South of Heaven in the mail today, it says in the booklet, "CD Mastering by Barry Diament. Barry Duiament Audio, NYC"

The U and I are close together on a keyboard...

 

Interesting, mine is spelled correctly, and it is the first US pressing (matrix DIDX-003551, catalogue 9 24203-2).

What's the info on yours?

 

Hi Barry,

I was wondering how your own recordings are going and is there any way of getting my hands on something you've done recently?


I've been influenced by your (2 mic) recording techniques that you told me about months ago. I have used that method with vocal overdubs but not with a whole song. I wanted to ask you: since I'm all analog, do you think that changing the recording levels makes any difference when moving something farther away from the mic? In my case I'm going to get more hiss if I don't pump it up.
I still haven't had a chance to hear your schtuff but I think about it quite often when I'm taping. I tend to roughly follow the idea when I can.

Peace Love and Diament in the rough
Marky

 

Ironic since I had Cosmic Surprise on in the car this morning and thought about how great it sounded!