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Drew - out of interest, what exactly was used as the source for the remastering?

Was the process just repeated and your mastering work discarded? Or was additional mastering work carried out on 24 bit mixes post your processing, but pre-dithering to 16 bit? Or were the files just ripped from your production master?

Just wondering, because the very concept of remastering already mastered work just seems plain dumb, what with extra layers of dither and increased quantisation errors - surely the whole aim in mastering is to do the least amount of processing necessary to achieve your ends?

Otherwise, I look forward to hearing your work, even if it's been fucked with.

happyandbored wrote:Drew - out of interest, what exactly was used as the source for the remastering?

Was the process just repeated and your mastering work discarded? Or was additional mastering work carried out on 24 bit mixes post your processing, but pre-dithering to 16 bit? Or were the files just ripped from your production master?

Just wondering, because the very concept of remastering already mastered work just seems plain dumb, what with extra layers of dither and increased quantisation errors - surely the whole aim in mastering is to do the least amount of processing necessary to achieve your ends?

Otherwise, I look forward to hearing your work, even if it's been fucked with.

We submitted CD-Rs already mastered (live discs only, we had no involvement with the album sides). What they did they did from the submitted CD-R finals, which were themselves originally worked on and mastered entirely in the 32bit domain by me prior to final dither to 16bit for CD (they were even transferred from the original cassettes at 32bit). Warners used what we gave them - they never had (and nor do have currently) the raw transfers from the master audience cassettes.

All on our end understood the potential quantization and/or additional dither issues from them working from 16bit masters. I'm not sure if my overlords (heh) offered up the 32bit mastered final files, but Warners certainly could have had those if they wanted.

What total fucktards.

I thought the live disc from Unknown Pleasures was great.