![]() But in my opinion it makes every recording from Aerosmith to ZZ Top sound way better. Guaranteed it is going to have way more bass and high end than you will like. heheĮdit: I tend to grab the Tweekend CD by The Crystal Method and use this track as a source to EQ all my rock music. And I EQ the crap out of all my rock music so it actually sounds like a band sounds. But I figure when that isn't the artistic goal, the recording should sound as accurate as possible. Someone might choose to intentionally make a recording sound different than the original sound, naturally. And I feel recordings of them should sound similar to hearing them in person. I play guitar and drums, so I'm quite used to how they sound when playing them and when being in the same room, not to mention having been to countless shows by all kinds of bands in venues of all sizes. One related note: the early 2000s "Definitive Collection" Japan/Rhino box is bit-for-bit identical on the studio album tracks to the 1993/94 Marino CDs, except the tracks are level-shifted up by an additional 0.6dB.Ĭlick to expand.You think cymbals sound harsh. So my guess would be that the Box Set 2 tracks where mastered back in 1990 and put on the shelf until Box Set 2 came out - and then those tracks were tweaked/re-remastered again in 1993, just like the original 40 Crop Circles tracks. However, I have compared the one Zep IV track on Box Set 2 with its counterpart on the 1994 Zep IV Marino CD, and if memory serves they are not 100% identical. It would stand to reason that since this set came out the same year as the studio albums box, it would contain the identical masterings for those tracks. In addition, if memory serves, I believe there also were a couple/few tracks that were remastered entirely - these were tracks that cross-faded or segued with other tracks on the original albums but were separated out from that sequence on the Crop Circles box, or vice-versa - so for example the Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux mashup that's unique to the 1990 Crop Circles box and (I think) Your Time is Gonna Come/Black Mountain Side from Zep I (though I could be thinking of a different song pairing than that - but you get the idea).įinally, that leaves Box Set 2, which came out in 1993 and contained all the tracks not on the Crop Circles box. The Battle of Evermore comes to mind in this regard: one of the versions has both a lower RMS (average) volume level, and higher peak levels than the other (I believe the Crop Circles version is the one with the lower RMS and higher peaks, but am not 100% certain). In some cases there also has been some kind of compression and/or EQ applied, because with some tracks even when you adjust the RMS level, the peak levels are still different between the Crop Circles version and the 1993/94 version - in other words they are different masterings, however slightly. But on the Zep IV CD, Going to California is level-adjusted to play at a volume that Page (and I guess Marino) thought was appropriate after Four Sticks and before When the Levee Breaks. This appears to be mainly because of changes in the running order: A Zep IV track like Going to California is blended volume-wise with similar acoustic tracks from Zep III on the Crop Circles box, where all those tracks are grouped together. ![]() ![]() If you compare tracks on the 1990 Crop Circles box to the same tracks on the 1993/94 album CDs, some levels have been adjusted - most tracks are level-shifted upwards by 1.4dB, although some are turned down and others are shifted up by different amounts. Then, when the 10-CD studio albums box came out in 1993, followed by the identical (as far as I know) individual album CDs in 1994, there was some tweaking done, by Marino, to the original Marino masters. He then mastered them for the original 4-CD (and 6-LP) Crop Circles box that came out later in 1990, which contained (if memory serves) 40 tracks. ![]() My understanding is that George Marino did 16-bit, 44.1kHz digital transfers of the Zep analogue tapes (most, though maybe not all of them master tapes) in early 1990. Click to expand.Yes, you're basically correct. ![]()
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