Dubnobasswithmyheadman: 20th Anniversary 5-CD Deluxe Boxset

[jetpig]

Up late and can't sleep, so I decided to do some comparison between my CD rip of Cowgirl (FLAC) and the pre-order download WAV. There's a general boost of about 10 db, but the clipping alert on foobar never went off once, which is very good, addresses the volume issues of the past without sacrificing quality. Overall sound separation is VASTLY improved. Details are much easier to pick out, vocals are much cleaner, and texturing is phenomenal. I'm REALLY excited to hear this whole thing. October can't come soon enough.

edit: they say they're gonna give all the albums this treatment, is that gonna include Everything, Everything, you think?

[TheBang]

Should be interesting to hear the works in progress.

It'll also be very nice to get some soundboard live versions of Bigmouth and Big Meat Show. According to the 2012 Anthology liner notes, Big Meat Show was a staple of the 92-93 shows, but no recordings are in circulation.

The RFH show will also mark the live debuts of Tongue, River of Bass, and M.E. (Mark II debut), and will be suitably appropriate to the seated nature of the venue.

[negative1]

Originally Posted by lectoid

Also, any info on the Blu Ray? Will there be a menu or will it work just like a CD?

probably just a basic menu.

other groups have released audio blurays like this.

i have one from tears for fears- the hurting.

as for remastering everything, everything, i hope so,
and if it would have ALL tracks, including the previous
audio only ones, that would be cool.

and the video remastered for HD, would be great.

later
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[Spooky Shoes]

It is stated that the studio albums are going to be subject to the remastering treatment, I do however hold out hope that this will be applied to EE also.

I am probably going to go for the Bluray or Vinyl but am waiting for the Bluray specs to see if there is any justification for the format as anything equal to or less than 24/96 would fit on a DVD. So my thoughts are the Bluray would be around 24/192 but at 66MB per minute, that would still leave around 20GB of space left after the album, which incidentally could fit the other 4 discs from the Super Deluxe box at the same high resolution.

[qirex]

I just realized the bluray isn't inlcuded in the boxset? (that I just ordered)
Also, what's the point of the Bluray if it's just the album audio? (in stereo nontheless)

[Spooky Shoes]

Originally Posted by qirex

Also, what's the point of the Bluray if it's just the album audio? (in stereo nontheless)

It comes down to resolution.

I've just decided to hold off on ordering the Bluray/Vinyl until nearer the release date because there is probably going to be a Japanese edition.

[ultradave]

Hmmm, aside from being remastered, I pretty much own most of the material. I was a little disappointed not to see Mother Earth (FM Mix) on the remixes CD. Being the Underworld junkie that I am though will prompt my need for the 5 Disc set. I'm sure the remastering alone will be well worth the quid. As far as flying to London... that won't happen unfortunately. I would love to hear M.E. live.

[negative1]

Originally Posted by qirex

I just realized the bluray isn't inlcuded in the boxset? (that I just ordered)
Also, what's the point of the Bluray if it's just the album audio? (in stereo nontheless)

not sure if it will follow this format,
but a lot of bluray releases do:

3 versions of the album:
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Features:
• Blu-ray - Audio Only
• High-Fidelity Pure Audio
• Playable on Blu-Ray player or PS3 console
• Audio taken from original master tapes and delivered in 24bit/96 khz
• 2.0 DTS and PCM Mixes

Decoding LPCM stream (track 2): Bitrate: 4608Kbps Sample Rate: 96KHz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24bit
Decoding DTS-HD stream (track 3): DTS-96/24 core Bitrate: 1536Kbps core + MLP data.Sample Rate: 96KHz Channels: 2 (DTS Master Audio 24bit)
Decoding TRUE-HD stream (track 4): AC3 core+TRUE-HD. Peak bitrate: 3366Kbps (core 640Kbps) Sample Rate: 96KHz (core 48Khz) Channels: 2

that's how 'the hurting' came.
here's a review i did of it, just to give you an idea on how it compares
to the remastered version.
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http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewt...hp?f=5&t=34386

mostly likely you can rip it, but it will probably use BD+ encoding.

i expect that the bluray version masters are the source for the
other remasters.

later
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[negative1]

Originally Posted by ultradave

Hmmm, aside from being remastered, I pretty much own most of the material. I was a little disappointed not to see Mother Earth (FM Mix) on the remixes CD.

comparing it to the list of mixes i had in my project,

this is what is missing for me:
(not including lemon interupt tracks)
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from dubnoDat
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3 big meat show 6:51
*5 organ 6:22
6 river of bass(long) 9:09
*9 can u feel me 4:30
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*UPDATE : these 2 tracks are identical to the ones released

remixes
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1 5:43 Mother Earth (fm mix)
1a 4:16 mother earth (demo)

4 9:51 Dark Train (edit)
5 11:30 Dark Hard

7 8:55 Cowgirl (long album version)
9 6:25 Cowgirl (winjer mix)

12 7:37 dirty epic (dirty guitar fade)

lemonworld mixes
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13 mmm skyscraper 6:04 128k mp3
14 man loop 17:24 128k mp3
15 dark and long (dark train jam) 6:12 128k mp3

b-sides and edits, non-album tracks
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2 8:49 The Hump (groove without a doubt)

4 8:20 Why? Why? Why?
5 12:14 Why? Why? Why? (Extended)
6 5:15 why? why? why? (edit) cd volume 8 only

11 20:02 215 Miles

13 17:53 Spoon Deep


15 4:10 Dirty Epic (jed the fish edit)

16 9:08 big meat show (anthology version)
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later
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[negative1]

noticed another possible typo.

1.The Hump (Wild Beast)

should be:
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The Hump (Wild Beasts)

later
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