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Hello, my friends. Because of my recent positive experience with remastering classical music and your positive feedback I decided to do a second sampler, also in High Definiton Sound - and I can promise you: this time the sound is even better! The aim for this "sequel" was the same as before: funny, pleasant, very good & sounding perfect. But on the older release I did not so much corrections, only on several tracks like correcting Soundstream resampling errors or equalizing a bit. This time I adapted the older Telarc-releases to the newer Telarc sound and even did a remastering of Orff´s famous Carmina Burana.
Boy, especially the Carmina Burana gave me the creeps! I didn´t want to take the Telarc recording because the interpretation is not good. I chose the recording from the Deutsche Grammophon, made in 1968 with Eugen Jochum and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, it is the only recording personally authorized by Carl Orff himself. While the interpretation is first-class (the solists are a dream), the sound is just horrible. I downloaded it before via eMule in lossless, but I decided to buy it a week ago. Orff would hate me, because I beautified the sound, made it more pleasant and less "dirty". I managed to improve the room impression and to carve out a sonic bloom that was not there before. It still sounds very analogue, not perfect but good and certainly better.
The other release I bought was Telarc´s Round Up as a remastered SACD from 2005. Engineer Michael Bishop did a surround upmix because of popular demand by fans. Sadly he only had the two channel masters from the Sony PCM 1610 done in 1985 (true to their standard, they always recorded in 2-channel). He ended up with boosting huge speakers in the Cincinnati Symphony Hall, playing back the original masters and recording the ambience of that with microphones. While he was at it, he created a new stereo-mix - he also the changed the sound a bit and I wondered what he did. After I figured that out, it was very easy: remastering old Telarc-recordings and lift them into a new era was now really possible! Oh my, did I succeed with this.
After correcting Telarc´s early resampling errors while downconverting from Soundstream I managed to apply more substance, dynamic, warmth, impact and precision to the nearly 30 years old recordings - but not only to the Soundstreams, no, also to the Sony PCM 1610. All recordings are sounding fantastic now, I still can´t believe how good Telarc mastered years ago when all others were in the stone-age! Even with DSP-processing, the sound stayed very very good. It is all there and it is vastly improved. :w00t:
As with the former release, you´ll have some fun pieces, here there are even more. I incorporated two releases of Deutsche Grammophon ReComposed (remixing of classical recordings by known DJs) which are very dear to me and I happen to like them very much. Also I included more classical mainstream this time like pieces from 2001. A bit cheap... what the heck, it´s fun! Two pieces are not even classical ones but who cares when they are so exciting? :wink:
I´ll write a decription soon, but now it is the time for listening to very good music! You won´t be disappointed and you mustn´t wait so long: the archive is 300 MB smaller! :haha: Have very much fun and two wonderful hours while listening to this! :handup:
And don´t forget: share this! Even when you have finished downloading. Thank you. :beer:
Boy, especially the Carmina Burana gave me the creeps! I didn´t want to take the Telarc recording because the interpretation is not good. I chose the recording from the Deutsche Grammophon, made in 1968 with Eugen Jochum and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, it is the only recording personally authorized by Carl Orff himself. While the interpretation is first-class (the solists are a dream), the sound is just horrible. I downloaded it before via eMule in lossless, but I decided to buy it a week ago. Orff would hate me, because I beautified the sound, made it more pleasant and less "dirty". I managed to improve the room impression and to carve out a sonic bloom that was not there before. It still sounds very analogue, not perfect but good and certainly better.
The other release I bought was Telarc´s Round Up as a remastered SACD from 2005. Engineer Michael Bishop did a surround upmix because of popular demand by fans. Sadly he only had the two channel masters from the Sony PCM 1610 done in 1985 (true to their standard, they always recorded in 2-channel). He ended up with boosting huge speakers in the Cincinnati Symphony Hall, playing back the original masters and recording the ambience of that with microphones. While he was at it, he created a new stereo-mix - he also the changed the sound a bit and I wondered what he did. After I figured that out, it was very easy: remastering old Telarc-recordings and lift them into a new era was now really possible! Oh my, did I succeed with this.
After correcting Telarc´s early resampling errors while downconverting from Soundstream I managed to apply more substance, dynamic, warmth, impact and precision to the nearly 30 years old recordings - but not only to the Soundstreams, no, also to the Sony PCM 1610. All recordings are sounding fantastic now, I still can´t believe how good Telarc mastered years ago when all others were in the stone-age! Even with DSP-processing, the sound stayed very very good. It is all there and it is vastly improved. :w00t:
As with the former release, you´ll have some fun pieces, here there are even more. I incorporated two releases of Deutsche Grammophon ReComposed (remixing of classical recordings by known DJs) which are very dear to me and I happen to like them very much. Also I included more classical mainstream this time like pieces from 2001. A bit cheap... what the heck, it´s fun! Two pieces are not even classical ones but who cares when they are so exciting? :wink:
I´ll write a decription soon, but now it is the time for listening to very good music! You won´t be disappointed and you mustn´t wait so long: the archive is 300 MB smaller! :haha: Have very much fun and two wonderful hours while listening to this! :handup:
And don´t forget: share this! Even when you have finished downloading. Thank you. :beer: