Bruce Springsteen remastered from the tapes

the vinyl is cut from a file. they took filet mignon and put it through the proverbial 'digital' meat grinder and gave us hamburger in return. engineers, always trying to save us from analog nasties, phuckin' with the signal and giving us something worse in return. :reallymad:

i'll still buy it for the ephemera and extra live tracks, but still...:|
 
Ah sh*t.... was so looking forward to this, from the clip above, which is very, very misleading, I assumed it was from the master tapes....... bugger!!!!
Then again just watched it again & it does say at 1:52 that "Newly transferred from the analogue masters". The plot thickens.
 
Hope the remastering engineers do a better job than his more modern album releases which seem to me to have atrocious sound.
 
I am not a fan though the wife is so I have his last Vinyl release and it was mastered by Bob Ludwig and sounds fine. Bruce is one of the few artists that get Bob on almost every project.
 
Bruce Springsteen albums have always had notoriously bad sound, perhaps intentionally so. That's very likely true of the master tapes as well; closer to grunge is still grunge. Hard to believe a digital step would even be noticeable.
 
I think you are right about the "grunge" sound and that is what Bruce likes. Accepting that I listen for the quality of the mastering job and ignore Bruce's mixing choices. To me the best I have ever heard Bruce is on an original release Born to Run mastered by Bruce Calbi in 1975.
 
Ah, right, guess I'm just showing my age - I heard it as distortion, not an artistic choice enhancing the message :) On vinyl this may be distinguishable, on CD I didn't pick up on this.
 
jkeny said:
Ah, right, guess I'm just showing my age - I heard it as distortion, not an artistic choice enhancing the message :) On vinyl this may be distinguishable, on CD I didn't pick up on this.
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I don't see why that should be. His albums for many years have been recorded and mastered in digital.
 
rbbert said:
I don't see why that should be. His albums for many years have been recorded and mastered in digital.
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Sure - I'm not trying to start a vinyl vs CD debate, it's just that I didn't hear his recent stuff on vinyl.
 
Hope the individual lps will also be available. I'd be interested in a new copy of Nebraska.
 
I have most of Bruce's recordings in one format or the other and I am in no hurry to replace them. There is only one way to listen to The Boss and that is Live.
 
Digital or analog, has anyone heard a good sounding Sprinsteen recording? Best I can think of is The Ghost of Tom Joad. The rest are abysmal dreck. What did they listen on.
 
still-one said:
...... There is only one way to listen to The Boss and that is Live.
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Agreed, best concert I have attended was the first leg of his European "born in the USA" tour, 1985 - grounds of Slane Castle. He impressed me with his sound then - his sound guys had the speaker delays worked out just right for the open-air amphitheatre of the grounds which impressed me as I hadn't heard this done before. So I expected great things from his albums & the early ones were fine but the later ones sounded bad. Maybe it's grunge, as someone said but sounds like bad production to me.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Digital or analog, has anyone heard a good sounding Sprinsteen recording? Best I can think of is The Ghost of Tom Joad. The rest are abysmal dreck. What did they listen on.
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Yeah, actually my copy of "Tunnel of Love" has really good sound. I also agree with a previous poster about certain pressings of "Born to Run" which I believe B Ludwig shows up on those pressings. I can't comment on much of his output as I don't have it. He is great live, though...

John
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Digital or analog, has anyone heard a good sounding Sprinsteen recording? Best I can think of is The Ghost of Tom Joad. The rest are abysmal dreck. What did they listen on.
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I'm not a big fan of the Boss, but the LP collection of his that was recorded live and issued in the 1980s I believe has some songs that sound pretty good, especially since they were recorded live.
 
mep said:
I'm not a big fan of the Boss, but the LP collection of his that was recorded live and issued in the 1980s I believe has some songs that sound pretty good, especially since they were recorded live.
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Had it and gave it away. ;)
 
allvinyl said:
Yeah, actually my copy of "Tunnel of Love" has really good sound. I also agree with a previous poster about certain pressings of "Born to Run" which I believe B Ludwig shows up on those pressings. I can't comment on much of his output as I don't have it. He is great live, though...

John
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Certainly not the Classic Records reissue BTR.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Had it and gave it away. ;)
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I can understand why. Johnny 99 is my favorite cut of the collection and I do think it sounds good. My dog Jason (who has long since passed) who ate many of my LPs ate the box the collection came in but the LPs survived untouched which was a minor miracle. I still have some LPs with the corners chewed off the jacket from Jason.
 
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