If the mastering engineers signed NDAs, then those NDAs are quite porous.
Check out the "About This Album" section here that credits Barry Diament.
That name is nowhere on my non-reissue vinyl copies of the albums.
http://www.hdtracks.com/coda-deluxe-edition
http://www.hdtracks.com/in-through-the-out-door-deluxe-edition
http://www.hdtracks.com/presence-deluxe-edition
(the pdf you get with a download does not include this information--just
the album cover)
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Jamie Howarth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> These tapes suffer from more than scrape flutter problems there's some
> speed drift slow wow and some cogging flutter.
> The drift and wow certainly affect Bonham's tempo ... We always hear an
> improvement in groove and pocket.
> What I would've loved to have heard is what would happen with the reverb
> tails and imaging. Mid 60s tapes really snap to attention. Mark Wilder was
> most surprised by the improvement in a Paul Revere and the Raiders master
> we fooled around with.
>
> Please pardon the mispellings and occassional insane word substitution I'm
> on an iPhone
>
> > On Aug 4, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Tom! I just might give it a listen some time. I’ll ask my stepson
> if he wants them, as an excuse to spend money on it! I missed his birthday
> this month…
> >
> > And, I am glad I asked - it was idle curiosity at first, but I have
> learned a lot! Thanks gang!
> > :-)
> > <L>
> > Lou Judson
> > Intuitive Audio
> > 415-883-2689
> >
> >> On Aug 4, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Lou,
> >>
> >> Most people who love the music won't hear the flaws. I agree there's
> some audible scrape-flutter, if you listen carefully for scrape-flutter.
> What I would have really desired out of a Plangent transfer, which I think
> would have been delivered, is that super-crisp drum attack (super-fast rise
> times on percussives, which comes from eliminating the mechanical
> time-smear). John Bonham was a MONSTER, and his hit impacts drive the
> excitement of the beat. Getting rid of that last bit of tape smear would
> have been great.
> >> That said, Jimmy Page apparently wanted to work with a guy he knew in
> England and thus getting the kind of Plangent transfer I have gone for with
> my remastering wasn't in the cards.
> >> Aside from the (slightly) audible results of non-time-aligned
> mechanical playback, they got other things right. There's plenty of
> dynamics, plenty of bass, and the digital transfer captured stuff like
> reverb tails and guitar note picking action very well. Much better than
> previous digital iterations.
> >> -- Tom Fine
> >>
> >> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:18:09 -0700, Lou Judson wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks Tom. Judging form an earlier comment, apparantly they
> skipped the dictum of getting the highest possible analog playback step. If
> someone (of us either here or on the Ampex list) can hear scrape flutter,
> it was not the best playback…
>
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