I am listening to this now. The Live album has an authoring error. Nothing in rear left channel.
TGCD is one of my fav albums ever. Jens Bogren captured the atmosphere of the production perfectly on his 4.0 mix, although there were certainly issues with it. Those who are not familiar with this album will love this, hardcore fans will notice many important guitar parts buried
Original surround mix vs new box set.
Bruce has made the vocals more audible and rears are more active.
Jens nailed all the guitar parts, Bruce has buried some integral guitar lines. Nobody can mix guitars like Jens IMO.
Bruce has made the album more dynamic, no hard limiting, Jens applied a lot of compression to front channels.
The genius of this album is not the main guitar riffs, or extravagant musicianship, but how the instruments interact and the feel of the production. A lot of the time the main riff has another guitar lick over the top coming in a few seconds later, these are the parts not very audible on new mix, real shame.
If you took the best from both mixes, you would have perfection.
By the sounds of it(although nothing in rear left, authoring error), Bruce did a great job with the live mix. Hard to judge at the moment.
TGCD is one of my fav albums ever. Jens Bogren captured the atmosphere of the production perfectly on his 4.0 mix, although there were certainly issues with it. Those who are not familiar with this album will love this, hardcore fans will notice many important guitar parts buried
Original surround mix vs new box set.
Bruce has made the vocals more audible and rears are more active.
Jens nailed all the guitar parts, Bruce has buried some integral guitar lines. Nobody can mix guitars like Jens IMO.
Bruce has made the album more dynamic, no hard limiting, Jens applied a lot of compression to front channels.
The genius of this album is not the main guitar riffs, or extravagant musicianship, but how the instruments interact and the feel of the production. A lot of the time the main riff has another guitar lick over the top coming in a few seconds later, these are the parts not very audible on new mix, real shame.
If you took the best from both mixes, you would have perfection.
By the sounds of it(although nothing in rear left, authoring error), Bruce did a great job with the live mix. Hard to judge at the moment.