It should think it wouldn’t take THAT much. I’ve made homebrew surround mixes of it. While there’s a lot of panning going on in the stereo mix, there aren’t that many elements to juggle.
Just got the Blu-ray of The Song Remains The Same. Converted it to 5.1 flac and gave a quick listen to final credits Stairway to Heaven in the car before bedtime. I was excited when the recorders showed up in the rear channels but alas the rest of the mix is disappointing. Try stereo with reverb in the rears. Plant is in the driver’s front nothing much if anything from center or sub. Better than nothing I guess but oh, what might have been.
Presence is my favorite, too, though I'd put Physical Graffiti near the bottom. I think I prefer Coda.Presence is my favorite Led Zeppelin album too followed by Physical Graffiti but they’re all good. Well, maybe not CODA.
The Zep studio masters might be gone. Remastering only requires an early stereo downmix from the console, there's probably several of those in existence for each album so much easier to get hands on. I'd expect by now we'd have multiple or all Zep studio albums in surround if that was ever going to be a thing.
In theory this shouldn’t be a problem with the Peter Jackson stem splitter AI tech that was built for the Get Back doc and used on the Atmos for Revolver and Songs From Big Pink… it comes down to if PJ wants to let it be used for Zep stuff though (and of course if people who have a say want it to be done)
I'd be surprised if this were the case, especially since there are stems from a few tracks on the second album (Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On, What Is And What Should Never Be, etc) 'out there' online.
I wouldn't necessarily expect that. It's up to what Jimmy Page wants.
It's worth noting that for those two projects, the de-mixing tech was being applied to individual channels of a four-track multitrack. It may not work as well with a finalized two-track stereo master.
Steven talked about wanting to do that many years ago. It was right around the time Page did the remasters and SW said something along the lines of it being a missed opportunity to not have surround versions available.
When they did the deluxe edition box sets a few years ago for all the studio albums, Coda had, by far in my opinion, the best set of extra tracks and outtakes. The outtakes and extras were probably overall better than the original album.Led Zeppelin may be the only artists I’d be willing to spend around $300 for a deluxe box set. Except for the, cut-out bin, CODA.
I'd spend $100 per album ($150 for PG since it's a double") for a stand-alone Blu-ray (assuming there were a MC mix).Led Zeppelin may be the only artists I’d be willing to spend around $300 for a deluxe box set. Except for the, cut-out bin, CODA.
