I would love to hear a remaster of those albums like the boots that floated around a few years back of SOTT and so forth.

Imago said:

Was the whole of Sign O The Times remastered? Damn i only got 9 of the tracks

The distortion is gone, but I can hear the compression - big time

FlamingRaindrop said:

How can it be remastered without the tapes?

icke4presidant said:

Dunno, 9 of the tracks floated my way and the quality was way superior to the album cd version - they were comparable to Ultimate quality - pity i couldn't get the other 7

Imago said:

Was the whole of Sign O The Times remastered? Damn i only got 9 of the tracks

FlamingRaindrop said:

They weren't remastered. That was simply a fan messing with the volume and eq.

The remastering really cleaned up the distortion considerably. I wasn't happy with the remastering overall but the tracks from 1999 are way better especially the dance mix.

Imagine the full 1999 album remastered where we can actually hear automatic

Is it true that Ultimate is not remastered?

Is it true that Ultimate is not remastered?

MikeMatronik said:

Ultimate WAS remastered (in the true sense of the word... not in the way that
a lot of fans seem to think it means).

FlamingRaindrop said:

They weren't remastered. That was simply a fan messing with the volume and eq.

SquirrelMeat said:

Okay, cool. Far, far superior sound from those than the official cd - that's sad in many ways. How is this done? I wouldn't mind knowing so i could revamp my entire 80's prince catalog.
cheers

BorisFishpaw said:

I'm confused...Can you explain that please?

MikeMatronik said:

Most preople seem to think that "Remastering" means going back to the
original 24 track mastertapes and re-doing the mix from scratch. This is not
true. This would be called "Remixing".

"Mastering" and "Remastering" is the final phase of transfer from the
completed 2-track Stereo Master to the finished product. It does NOT
require access to the original 24 track tapes, only the 2 track Masters.

Of course there have been several high-profile reamasters which have
involved a "remix" as well, but that is not what the term "remaster"
means, and it's not what happens in the vast majority of CD remasters
that are released.

There is no "yes & no" on the subject.
What I stated earlier wasn't an opinion... it was a FACT.

I know that Remastering and Remixing often go hand in hand, but there's
still a big difference between the two. Just because something hasn't been
remixed from the 24-track tapes doesn't mean that it isn't a "Remaster". If it's
been remastered from the original 2-track stereo master, then it has been
"Remastered"... end of argument, because that's what "remastering" means.

This is the point I'm trying to get across here. This ISN'T a matter of opinion
about what some people may or may not think a "remaster" involves. It's a
matter of FACT. There is no "yeah, but..." on the subject. Unfortunately,
there seems to be a lot of confusion in the public domain about what
constitutes a "remaster" because on the whole they're comparitively new
to the term. However, there is NO confusion as to it's meaning in the Music
Business, and it's meaning hasn't changed due to public misconception.
[Edited 6/30/07 4:39am]

FlamingRaindrop said:

They weren't remastered. That was simply a fan messing with the volume and eq.

SquirrelMeat said:

not if you look at the wave files graphically!

ufoclub said:

PLEASE post the wave files

icke4presidant said:

for ultimate or for the fan remastering? With the fan remastering, I meant that it was much more than just EQ and volume tweaking that was done. If it's the one I'm thinking of, there was a reference sound to try to reach, there was two passes of multiband compression, and there was testing in different environments like the home and the car.

Here's the Ultimate comparison:

ufoclub said:

what song is that?

icke4presidant said:

1999

ufoclub said:

what do you think of the sound? too compressed or o.k?

overall they are easily better then the orignals i think.

icke4presidant said:

I think it sounds okay. I think it was a relatively conservative remastering.