That the multitracks are missing for Voyage and hence no 5.1 remix isn't anyone's fault. Sucks for me that that's what I'd be most interested in!
I probably only like maybe 2 or 3 songs from the rest of his albums as much as I like Genesis.
What to do? Be stubborn and miss out on something that's still better than not hearing it at all? Too many people just buy the cheap releases anyway so the vote with your wallet thing isn't working to make this stop.
Hi jimfisheye,
You make excellent points. I agree totally.
When I bought Steve's LPs back in the day, I couldn't help comparing and I found that I didn't enjoy his stuff as much as a Genesis record. But over the years, Please Don't Touch & Spectral mornings have become essential prog to me. To get those in discrete 5.1 is something I never even dreamed would be available.
SH is a bit of a niche artist and
nobody outside of progressive music knows who
this guy is, so
any kind of surround release is a wonderful and certainly
unexpected gift. I say, no way we see further single SH releases. The record company will flatly not consider it due to such a small target market. So its the box
or the center of a doughnut, IMHO
The box set came out WAY too much $$$ for me but I finally found it for 104.00 USD delivered!
I am coughing up the $$$ for
Please Don't Touch & Spectral Mornings. Courtesy a $20.00 off coupon and shipping is free.
http://www.grooves.land/steve-hacke...-universal-cd-dvd-video-pZZa1-2097187248.html
Like you, I do hope we get flat transfers of the original second gen 2.0 tapes. But I doubt it for
two reasons:
It would have been announced
already since that is an excellent marketing tool which is now almost always used in such projects.
Since the multi-channel masters were missing for most except for PDT & SM it is logical to assume that many other tapes might be AWOL as well, eliminating a chance for a flat transfer.
Either way:
I am
thrilled beyond compare that Please Don't Touch & Spectral Mornings are in discrete 5.1 by Good Sir Steven Wilson. I'm paying a lot for 2 recordings in surround no doubt, but nothing in surround is exactly cheap. And the Voyage upmix should have good strong signal on all 5 channels making it a very nice listening experience.