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#311 Guns N' Roses » Definitive list of variations in CD masterings? » 215 weeks ago
- ClaudeF
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There’s an incredible Pink Floyd site that documents all variations in how the records are mastered. Here is the page for CDs released in the United States:
http://pinkfloydarchives.com/DUSCDPF.htm
What is most interesting from an audio perspective is the “ Track Peak Levels: The peak volume levels for every song on a CD have been noted in this discography. These peak volume levels were read using EAC software, and are measured as percentages, with the maximum possible peak level being 100%. It is useful to use peak level readings to compare CDs, because CDs that have different peak levels reveal that the CDs were made from different masterings (and, therefore, sound different).”
Has anything similar been done for GNR discs? As far as I know there are only two masterings of UYI on CD so far: The original 1991 masters and SHM issued in Japan. But there could be others. The 2016 remaster was issued only on vinyl, correct?
In the absence of any demos on the box set it might be fun to compare the various masterings issued in different countries.
#312 Re: Guns N' Roses » SOG single coming? » 215 weeks ago
So, could the lack of studio material on the UYI set be intentional so as not to compete with a new album?
P. S. The official store now says the Locked and Loaded set is sold out:
https://gnrmerch.com/products/appetite- … ed-box-set
#313 Re: Guns N' Roses » IRS Live 2006 » 215 weeks ago
He is having FUN! Strong new material will do that. A good reminder of what another album of songs stands to give the band as well as the fans.
#314 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 215 weeks ago
If the band does read posts, then please, by all means, give us some clarity and have a conversation.
“ You be rippin' off the fuckin' kids/ While they be payin' their hard earned money to read about the bands they want to know about.”
Those days and many of those magazines are done. That was the promise of the Internet. Address us directly because you can.
#315 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 215 weeks ago
Since UYI was a two-volume set …
Let this be the “live” version.
Follow up this time next year with the “studio” version.
Give us the demos, outtakes, Q-Sound and alternate mixes, etc. Plus a BluRay with the videos, documentaries, surround sound mix, etc.
That way the entire era is properly and thoroughly represented without any actual overlap.
#316 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 215 weeks ago
Disappointment over the lack of demos seems universal:
#317 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 216 weeks ago
Stephanie, like Erin, served as an artistic muse. I can’t imagine him feeling the same, or writing about, Beta.
If you ever read about Howard Hughes, in his final years he was surrounded by, and basically imprisoned by, his inner circle. The same dynamic seems in play here.
#318 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 216 weeks ago
A comment from the author of the official Nirvana biography seems relevant:
Every time Kurt objected, I’d explain why it had to stay in the book, and he never pressed the matter. After all, that was our original agreement—to do it any other way would be, as he said in our first conversation about the book, “too Guns N’ Roses.”
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/perso … urt-cobain
#319 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 216 weeks ago
Would have appreciated the Paris PPV. I listened to the live (and clumsily censored) radio broadcast but have yet to see the gig!
#320 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 216 weeks ago
No unreleased studio tracks?
What the actual f …
