Here's part of a press release, that was on high fidelity review.com...
Bob Dylan SACD Update from Legacy Recordings
Steven Berkowitz, Senior Vice President A&R at Legacy Recordings provided members of the media with an update on the upcoming Bob Dylan Remastered SACD series. As noted in earlier stories, the Dylan Remastered SACD Series will feature his albums on single inventory, Hybrid Stereo and Multichannel SACD reissues.
Legacy's Berkowitz heads up the Dylan Remastered project and referred to it as an "enjoyable but daunting task". He noted Dylan's "iconic" status in the pop world and his "40 years of recording history".
The project team combed through all of Dylan's recordings including issues on vinyl LP, CD, Mini Disc, Half Speed LP, Direct to Disc, Quadraphonic and SACD as well as the original master tapes to find the original intent behind each of the songs in the Dylan catalog. To assist with this phase of the work, Berkowitz assembled a team that included noted reissue specialist Bob Irwin along with several Sony Studios veterans including Ditier Deutesch, Dan DeVito and Vic Anesini. Their goal according to Berkowotz was to "make them right" when the reissued series tracks were finished.
Berkowitz also talked about the "all star team" that he put together to handle the remastering of the songs as well as create new 5.1 remixes for some of the albums. Work on the Stereo tracks was handled by Chris Shaw who is Bob Dylan's current engineer with Stereo remastering being done by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. For the 5.1 Surround Sound mixes, he turned to well known industry producer/engineers Phil Ramone and Elliot Scheiner with the 5.1 mastering tasks were assigned to George Marino, also at Sterling Sound. Finally, SACD authoring was handled by Darcy Proper at Sony Studios who Berkowitz referred to as Scheiner's "favorite engineer" for this work.
Bob Dylan SACD Sampler
To provide members of the media with a flavor of the Dylan Remastered material, Sony handed out a 6 track Multichannel SACD for reporters who were at the event. They noted that this sampler would otherwise not be available to the press or public.
The tracks on the sampler included:
1. All I Really Want to Do - from Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall, The Bootleg Series, Volume 6
2. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - from Bringing It Back Home
3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - from Blonde on Blonde
4. Tangled Up In Blue - from Blood On The Tracks
5. Gotta Serve Somebody - from Slow Train Coming
6. Moonlight - from Love & Theft
Leading off the demonstrations, Berkowitz played track 1 which is from a previously unreleased Bootleg Series album recorded live in 1964. He told the group that this Dylan Remastered SACD would be coming out in October and would be the 16th disc in the series. The song features a 22 year old Dylan, singing with some enthusiasm and raw energy. This track is also interesting since it sounds like Dylan may have had a drink or two before the performance. (There was some talk in the listening session about Dylan being "a bit typsy").
Moving to some more recent Dylan recordings, Berkowitz also played tracks 5 (Gotta Serve Somebody) and 6 (Moonlight). As you would expect, these tracks were much more polished sounding and featured very nice sonics and detail on Dylan's vocals, guitar and the backing musicians. What is suggests is that the series will feature both historic, older recordings as well as more recent and sonically impressive material.
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/ ... r=16008578
The Dylan SACD Remasters
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lukpac
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mikenycLI wrote:Work on the Stereo tracks was handled by Chris Shaw who is Bob Dylan's current engineer with Stereo remastering being done by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. For the 5.1 Surround Sound mixes, he turned to well known industry producer/engineers Phil Ramone and Elliot Scheiner with the 5.1 mastering tasks were assigned to George Marino, also at Sterling Sound.
Am I the only one a bit wary about these two?
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Am I the only one a bit wary about these two?
No.
The project team combed through all of Dylan's recordings including issues on vinyl LP, CD, Mini Disc, Half Speed LP, Direct to Disc, Quadraphonic and SACD as well as the original master tapes
So if they "combed through" the Quad releases, why couldn't they be bothered to port them over to Multichannel? Yet we'll be treated to a "5.1" version of Another Side. Bizarre. I'm tempted to think ol' Bob himself is in charge of this project.
All that said, of course, I'll buy 'em all. (Except possibly Highway 61, as I'm pretty happy with the DCC. I've also got the stereo BoB SACD, whether or not I get the new one depends on how badly I want to hear the multichannel.)
It *is* cool to hear that we'll get Bootleg 6 on SACD. Sony's starting to make some noise. Now, where are those Springsteen SACDs?
Ryan
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Mike, that's the second time in two days you've called me Ron. I love ya, but you're starting to give me a complex. I can only assume this means one of two things:
1) You believe that Ron and I are the same person. I can state definitively and for the record that I am not Ron. However, only he can say whether or not he's me.
2) You know my father (who is named Ron) and whenever you see "Rspaight" you immediately think of him. That is a possibility too terrifying to seriously contemplate.
Seriously, though, I've been called "Brian" as often as not my whole life, so no worries.
In any event, I know squat about the situation surrounding Springsteen's stuff. I figured a multichannel SACD of The Rising was a given, but it didn't happen. And Born to Run is always right there alongside Blonde On Blonde, Kind Of Blue and Bat Out Of Hell whenever Sony launches a new format or audiophile series, but not this time. All we've got is Live in NYC, which got a 5.1 mix for DVD which I assume was ported over to the SACD. I guess Bruce's folks don't consider SACD worth the time for remixing into 5.1 yet, but don't want to do stereo-only versions.
Ryan
1) You believe that Ron and I are the same person. I can state definitively and for the record that I am not Ron. However, only he can say whether or not he's me.
2) You know my father (who is named Ron) and whenever you see "Rspaight" you immediately think of him. That is a possibility too terrifying to seriously contemplate.
Seriously, though, I've been called "Brian" as often as not my whole life, so no worries.
In any event, I know squat about the situation surrounding Springsteen's stuff. I figured a multichannel SACD of The Rising was a given, but it didn't happen. And Born to Run is always right there alongside Blonde On Blonde, Kind Of Blue and Bat Out Of Hell whenever Sony launches a new format or audiophile series, but not this time. All we've got is Live in NYC, which got a 5.1 mix for DVD which I assume was ported over to the SACD. I guess Bruce's folks don't consider SACD worth the time for remixing into 5.1 yet, but don't want to do stereo-only versions.
Ryan
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mikenycLI wrote:I only recognize Phil Ramone, please share what concerns you ???
It's just that both are known for less than great "remasters". Seems to be something with Sterling Sound (Ted Jensen as well). Calbi's Greatest Hits (Dylan) remasters aren't that bad, but they're not that great, either. I believe Marino has been making stuff bright/maxed out recently. Patrick knows more.
It seems strange that Sony's got great people in-house and they're outsourcing the mastering.
lukpac wrote:It's just that both are known for less than great "remasters". Seems to be something with Sterling Sound (Ted Jensen as well). Calbi's Greatest Hits (Dylan) remasters aren't that bad, but they're not that great, either. I believe Marino has been making stuff bright/maxed out recently. Patrick knows more.
Marino really gets under my skin. He mastered the latest Jerry Cantrell CD (Degradation Trip) and it's loud as hell. It's in my car right now, and every time it's in any changer, I have to go and adjust the volume when the first chord of "Psychotic Break" comes in. He also worked on the last Dream Theater CD (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence) which has a lovely brick-shaped waveform throughout. It's really squashed.
Marino also turned the knobs on the EH remasters that are known for their loudness. He did the AC/DC remasters as well - the ones I posted about on this forum a while back ("they're twice as loud!").
I know less about Calbi, but he mastered some Bill Frisell CDs I have, which sound good to me. I dunno...I'm with Luke here, Sterling Sound gives me concern.
If Vic and Bob Irwin were doing the whole thing, you feel like at the worst it would be good, if not 100% definitive. If Marino's involved, who knows?
Rspaight wrote:Mike, that's the second time in two days you've called me Ron. I love ya, but you're starting to give me a complex. I can only assume this means one of two things:
1) You believe that Ron and I are the same person. I can state definitively and for the record that I am not Ron. However, only he can say whether or not he's me.
Ron:
Now wait just a darn minute here. I can state with about 98% certainty that I am not you. And you're willing to state for the record that you are not me. So if all that's true, then who the hell are we??
Dr. Ron 
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