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From: wjm@lcuxc.UUCP (B. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Digital Remastering
Message-ID: <356@lcuxc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 15:05:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 15:05:49 1985
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Digital Remastering is, at best, a necessary evil, and at worse another case
of major record company hype.
It is necessary to produce a CD version of an older (classic) recording
that was not recorded digitally.  However, now one even sees "Digitally
Remastered" re-releases of classic analog performances on LP!  Somehow,
I fail to see how taking an analog master tape, digitizing it, and then
re-converting the digitized version to analog to cut an LP master will
produce higher quality results than a careful transfer to LP of the
original analog master tape (like those done by Mobile Fidelity) - and
they then have the gall to charge digital prices for the results!
(I can see a case for digitizing if one is going to do some signal
processing, but that should be done with extreme care, if at all!)
What digital remastering does, is take the analog master tape, digitize
it, perhaps re-mix it, and produce a digital version.  This is then either
copied onto CD's or converted back into analog form to produce LPs and/or
analog tapes (cassettes or open-reel).
Regards,
Bill Mitchell ({ihnp4!}lcuxc!wjm)