I'm not sure if there are re-recorded guitar parts on that reissue. it's not the best sounding reissue though. but that's also not the best sounding album in any version.
― akm, Monday, 17 April 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
"Bob Ezrin taking the Hoff to task over his work on Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies was also pretty hilarious."
where was that?
any truth to the story that All Things Must Pass had *re-recorded* guitar parts etc on the CD issued in 2001? admittedly i only ever read this tale on the forums in question.― piscesx, Monday, April 17, 2017 9:15 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― piscesx, Monday, April 17, 2017 9:15 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No, it's a load of bollocks. There was some overdubbing on 'I Live For You', which was recorded at the sessions but unfinished, so it was brought up to scratch and put out as a bonus track.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
"jumped up cutting engineer" ... Ouch.
#ethered
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
xxxpost:
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/adventures-in-mastering-alice-cooper-billion-dollar-babies-for-audio-fidelity.334492/page-3
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
holy shit that's amazing
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
xp ahh gotcha, makes sense. i still love ATMP's production, especially on What Is Life and Awaiting On You All; that hazy, blurry chaotic racket.
― piscesx, Monday, 17 April 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
i think the one thing that is really unforgivable is that he sold his own CDrs of his remaster work for All things Must Pass to the highest bidder (also, some other unreleased mastering jobs) in order to keep his site going. But he prohibits discussion or links to bootlegs on the site (actually that seems to have been loosened up quite a bit lately). I mean, he essentially personally profited off a bootlegged master and leaked that into the pirate market.
― akm, Monday, 17 April 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
if you ask about that on the site your message gets swifly deleted
See also: the Buddy Holly/The Picks saga.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 17 April 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
As detailed here:
http://www.houstonpress.com/music/bone-to-pick-6567653
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 17 April 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
the concept of a forum moderated and owned by a very opinionated opinionated poster who dislikes dissent is... not appealing
― niels, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 06:22 (seven years ago) link
as anyone who's ever visited the byrnerobotics.com forums can attest
― years of immersion in the seduction community (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 08:33 (seven years ago) link
that buddy holly story is fucking weird.
― akm, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Enjoying this one a lot right now. http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6703I was checking out the Hoffman board for years before discovering Stereo Central, like an amazing payoff to a joke which had been going on for a ridiculous length of time.
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
a lot of the excesses are genuinely amusing but jesus there's some depressing shit in there too -- here's the Hoff on "aspirations":
You certainly are free to enjoy my masterings on a boombox or a Pioneer receiver and some beat up BIC speakers from 1975 but to not even strive to save to get something better eventually, that's just denial. The goal is to enjoy your music on the best system you can, no matter your price range or salary bracket. If that means eating out of a few cans and skipping Starbucks on the way to work for a few months, so be it. Get it done.
here he is later, from the above linked Billion Dollar Babies thread, lamenting being told to cease and desist making those threads detailing his work on the Audio Fidelity remasters:
Eh, no big deal, I talk too much anyway. No one in charge really likes me blabbing about mastering experiences (no record company suits, legal, etc.) so maybe it's for the best.For me it's like a stress release after a big project, to talk about it to people who might care. Otherwise it just ends cold turkey and I sometimes go into a tailspin.
For me it's like a stress release after a big project, to talk about it to people who might care. Otherwise it just ends cold turkey and I sometimes go into a tailspin.
all of this can be yours etc
― Devilock, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm just more amazed at how busy that place is!
You look at page one, and the last thread on the page is, what, (just looked) 36 minutes old wrt last message?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 06:24 (seven years ago) link
Audiophiles be Audiophillin'
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 07:12 (seven years ago) link
You know it goes a lot deeper than that. Steve hasn’t set up this forum to have smart asses correct him. It’s also not your job to invite engineers to our site to be questioned like a jury. A PM to get a gort to send a formal invitation would have been more appropriate.
― niels, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 07:49 (seven years ago) link
'gort'?
http://www.jeffbots.com/gort.jpg
― years of immersion in the seduction community (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 08:53 (seven years ago) link
yup, that's what they call mods
― niels, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:17 (seven years ago) link
ffs
― years of immersion in the seduction community (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:28 (seven years ago) link
They don't FP, they invoke klaatu barada nikto
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:56 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GZce8rT.jpg
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 15 May 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
LOL!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, they really don't "get" hip-hop/rap at all over at the retirement home.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
the dumb part is Frank was talking about the Beatles and the Stones and all the 60s classic rock they endlessly jack off over
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
'we were all afraid to go in the other studio' ooooof
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
not sure what track those totally real lyrics are from
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
who could forget MC Gangsta's classic "I'm a Big Big Big Black Motherfuckin' Man"?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
from his sophomore joint fuck steve hoffman iirc
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link
If he doesn't still have a copy of the footage maybe CNN could oblige.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
if cnn does have the footage but cnn is FAKE NEWS then did it really happen at all
makes u think
― The Patricia Routledge Meatspin Gif Has Made You Gay (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
original master tapes or it didn't happen
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Steve Hoffman masters records where you can hear bleed through the walls from another studio? He should try putting up some baffling
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Already baffled enough tbh
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
I'm a Hoff Man, I'm an old Hoff Man, I'm a big old white remasterin' Hoff Man.
― salthigh, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
the worst thing about that MC Gangsta record is that it was mastered with pre-emphasis iirc
― fish louse (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Interesting how he felt the need to censor "fuck", "motherfucking" and "bitch", but not "nigga" ...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
"Needless to say" a CNN news crew happened to be there.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Obviously that mastering studio didn't have brickwalls. See what I did there?
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
Stereo Central has suddenly disappeared? (was there Monday...)
http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php
― Sherman's Shermits (S-), Friday, 19 May 2017 05:05 (seven years ago) link
i think about that 'rapper' story frequently since reading that. lol that they were scared to go next door
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
that story reads so much like it was lifted from this facebook page, I can't believe its real
― frogbs, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
i wonder if specifically mentioning he was mastering nat king cole was equivalent to saying 'i'm not racist, but...'
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Having a quick glance over at the retirement home, seems someone has woken 'em up by stating that Kraftwerk are more influential on modern music than The Beatles...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
it's a common-held notion that electronic music isn't made with 'real' instruments, o'er at the SHF (MOJO magazine of music bbssus)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
*bbs's
Ahh man, c'mon. You can't just say that and not post a link!
― Austin, Friday, 30 June 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
It was on the first page of the forum last time I checked!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 30 June 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link