Rolling Stones to remaster post 1970 albums

Granted, Mick generally has better options for time-spending than us mortals.

 

I like his 1994 remasters very much. Fingers crossed that the new remasters won't disappoint.

 

The only one I'm not crazy about was the Some Girls remaster. The sound to me is very solid state, digital and hard sounding.

 

As I said above, I find them way too harsh, but I love what he did with the Abkco remasters in 2002. Those were also done with what he called at the time an attempt to respect the "spirit" of the original albums so I hope he does the same with these new ones. That statement about removing hard edges and without losing the feel of the original masters has me hoping he'll approach these the same way he did in 2002.

 

Remastered by the same guy? That's odd isn't it?

 

Yep. That could be either very bad (RL does them like Memory Almost Full) or very good (RL does them like the Abkco Stones).

 

Japanese editions coming 6/24

 

The promo discs have been out for a few weeks. I can't believe samples of the tracks haven't been posted/leaked. I've heard Sticky Fingers sounds very good. 4 more days until release...

 

Lets hope the levels are not boosted. I have a gut feeling that these discs will sound good.

I do have a complete set of the originals and remasters and listen to both sets.

 

Found a promotional video on you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ1nj0uyggA

 

reb, thanks for the link!

 

Wow! I'll bet that took a whole half of an hour to put together...

 

Found another link with audio clips!!!

http://www.musicline.de/de/product/602527015613///1807661


http://www.musicline.de/de/product/602527015620///1807746


http://www.musicline.de/de/product/602527015590///1807628

http://www.musicline.de/de/product/602527015606///1807854


http://www.musicline.de/de/product/600753180631///1807803

 

You can't blame Bob for Memory Almost Full. It sounded like doody when he received the files.

 

Check out the links to audio clips above!!!!

 

Here's the Collector's Box: http://www.amazon.de/Rolling-Stones...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1240988274&sr=1-2

 

"Brown Sugar" - audio (definitely new mastering, but for the worse IMO...bottom same/louder/boosted mids &/or highs)

MP3 Web Sample - 56kbps (22hz) - http://www.mediafire.com/?ijzzd1mzhyt

Sticky Fingers - Virgin cd (mp3 56kbps - 22Hz) - http://www.mediafire.com/?itzwnjnjn1l

 

I love the MFSL vinyl of Sticky Fingers---not sure how much they jacked with EQ but it's WORLDS apart from the Virgin CD i have.
I also love my vinyl Exile that I picked up for $1 in the budget bin--not sure of the pressing (1970s) but it beats the hell out of the 80s cd even though it's not close to mint condition.

 

"Brown Sugar" - visual

MP3 Web Sample -

 

"Brown Sugar" - visual

Sticky Fingers (Virgin cd) aka 'Forty Licks' mastering -

 

Levels boosted on the 2009 remasters in your opinion?

 

Yes. Provided the website samples represent the finished product...

 

The clips have that driving bass and fullness that gives me a headache.

 

That's the problem. We don't know if these are ripped directly from the CDs, boosted further for digital download by Ludwig or by some anonymous webmaster to his specific taste.

 

Yeah, that's what he's told people but too many of Ludwig's recent masterings have all that that same overloaded "sandpaper cymbal" sound to me.