Grant wrote:Hmmmm...
TM "Do it 'till you're sick of it. Do it 'till you can't do it no more." Jesse WinchesterRon wrote:Jeez, britre, I sure wouldn't want to go and draw conclusions about a man's work on the basis of one record. "Lost their hearing"? You think Steve Hoffman has lost his hearing? Are you nuts or something?
Ok, so I may be a little harsh in my "hearing" statement, however if you want to send me a CDR of some premier Steve Hoffman examples, I would be happy to critical listen and withdraw my statements if I find they have been made prematurely... Write me in private and I will give you an address
Thesia wrote:Ron, to answer your questions: I'm blessed with the XX chromosome combo, and yes, I occasionally listen to Metallica, but I only own the black album (yeah, I know, the popular one). And as for its effect on me, well ... maybe I *should* get the DCC "Ride the Lightning". I'll have to talk to Ryan about that. (BTW, I must agree, it did sound funnier to say "girlfriend".)
Ryan, you may borrow my DCC "Lightning," but you must clean it before returning it.
britre wrote:hmmmm all the talk and reference to "Steve Hoffman" made me actually go to the site to see what all the hubub was about.
On my way to the message board I first checked out what the man actually has done to earn his rep. The only familiarity as far as my personal listening ownership was that Mr. Hoffman did the reissue of , Jefferson Starship, Red Octopus both the CD and LP in 1997.
I have to say this is one of the S&^$$tiest sounding remaster LP's I have next to the two Columbia Men At Work Half Speed Master LP's. Granted the original issues of both Quadraphonic and Stereo R.O. were not the greatest with a serious rolloff at 12k, you would think Mr. Hoffman could have taken an effort to fix that and any tape anomalies. Unfortunately, that was not the case. It is almost as if the tape was threaded, rolled, and written to disc.
I did not go any farther as I simply can't have any faith in the opinion of someone who oviously has lost their hearing and gives the impression working on remasters is not work, it is just getting a tape and committing it to disc, no matter how bad that tape may sound.
Grant wrote:britre wrote:hmmmm all the talk and reference to "Steve Hoffman" made me actually go to the site to see what all the hubub was about.
On my way to the message board I first checked out what the man actually has done to earn his rep. The only familiarity as far as my personal listening ownership was that Mr. Hoffman did the reissue of , Jefferson Starship, Red Octopus both the CD and LP in 1997.
I have to say this is one of the S&^$$tiest sounding remaster LP's I have next to the two Columbia Men At Work Half Speed Master LP's. Granted the original issues of both Quadraphonic and Stereo R.O. were not the greatest with a serious rolloff at 12k, you would think Mr. Hoffman could have taken an effort to fix that and any tape anomalies. Unfortunately, that was not the case. It is almost as if the tape was threaded, rolled, and written to disc.
I did not go any farther as I simply can't have any faith in the opinion of someone who oviously has lost their hearing and gives the impression working on remasters is not work, it is just getting a tape and committing it to disc, no matter how bad that tape may sound.
Hoffman's philosophy is not to tewak and repair. It is to simply translate what is actually on the tapes, unless, of course, the tapes really need help, as with the Mamas and Papas CD he did. He pelieves in leaving the tape hiss alone, and to not try to remove it through noise reduction.
Steve tries to return the sound back to where it was when originally mixed.
britre wrote:
Now on a Compact Disc wouldn't that mean he is leaving the RIAA Eq curve in tact which is gonna royally screw with the overal sound and transparency of the recording giving the audio the exact character I am complaining of?
