kramerThanks. Nun ja, wenigstens klingt „Pet Sounds“ nicht so bescheiden wie „Hotel California“. Das zeigt, dass man auch mit zig verfügbaren Spuren eine Menge verbocken kann…
Nun ja…. so schlecht klingt sie nicht. Zumindestens die DCC klingt im Vgl zur Original CD/LP und Ted Jensen Remaster sehr gut. Ich finde DCC’s Hotel California klingt besser als Pet Sounds.
Kommentar von SH:
What was the hardest one to master?
The Eagles‘ „Hotel California.“ In fact, when we finally got those master tapes from Criteria Studios in Miami, it was like I wanted to cancel the project. We had already paid Elektra/Asylum all the advance money and everything. But I didn’t understand how something could sound so muffled and bass-heavy, and be the actual master. So I thought, „maybe it’s been destroyed.“ So I got the safetys, and they were 1:1 copies. They sounded exactly the same way. So I thought, „it must be the way they were mixed.“ I went in search of (engineer) Bill Szymczyk’s JBL monitors (not the exact same pair he used, but a similar pair). I stuck them out in the middle of the room without any bass re-enforcement [like at Criteria in 1976]. „Oh, ok, that sounds more like it!“ All that boomy bass was gone, and it started to take shape. I had one or two choices at that point. Either sell a pair of JBL studio monitors with every gold CD, or master the thing the way it should be sounding on everyone’s stereo, like it sounds on those JBLs. So that’s what I ended up doing. But let me tell you, I scratched my head a long time trying to figure out how to make that sound good. I used a lot of EQ on those. I didn’t add any EQ, I just subtracted. Sometimes -14 db at 100 cycles. That’s a lot! And even then, it was still pretty boomy.
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