Ringo News 2015

[deadgrandma]

Originally Posted by harry4567

^ shhhh, that was posted by me on jps, let the die hard fans buy the disc!!!

The plot thickens...

And also another example of how small the Ringo community actually is

[harry4567]

THIS IS the actual CD master that I downloaded from iTunes...


and then, compare to the waveforms....

Originally Posted by deadgrandma

Speaking of being fucked over with mastering:

As mentioned elsewhere, this is the waveforms of A Life Supreme on both the original disc and the new 'remaster' that appears on the Taiwan Disc:

ORIGINAL CD:


As you can see, it's bad enough.

However:
TAIWAN DISC


Why????

[deadgrandma]

Ah ok, the original CD is truly awful but it's still slightly less concerning than the "remaster" (just look at the difference on the quieter part around 2:15-2:40ish). I'm willing to bet the whole disc is plagued with hard cut-offs too if you were to look into it further.

I just can't understand what they were thinking here. It really does my brain in. I hope them cheaper Taiwan 'reissues' aren't the same. I wanna know for sure but I'm not buying one just to find out.

This really wasn't just for fun, shoulda taken it as a warning, seeing as everything DOES sound like this now:


As for letting the 'die-hard fans buy the disc'- there's a difference between being die-hard and being a dumbass :-p Seriously, the only people who should be buying this are those going to the show, for nostalgia reasons. It would be absolutely pointless buying this to listen to.

[harry4567]

I could not understand why the taiwan disc is brickwalled in BOTH waveforms and frequency (a clean cut around 21.5k), and the bootleg-like design they included. The brickwalled (both frequency and waveform) trend was started in mid 2014 and ended before 2015. The notable examples are Re:import, BENI's best and Amuro's Ballada. Although it has ended already, Universal is still thinking it is appropriate to do so in the taiwan disc, it is horrible.

Can someone with a Twitter account ask Ringo why she's destroyed her music on this album? I'm curious.

[deadgrandma]

I call vengeance on the Oomori fans

[zeroryouko]

Originally Posted by harry4567

I could not understand why the taiwan disc is brickwalled in BOTH waveforms and frequency (a clean cut around 21.5k), and the bootleg-like design they included. The brickwalled (both frequency and waveform) trend was started in mid 2014 and ended before 2015. The notable examples are Re:import, BENI's best and Amuro's Ballada. Although it has ended already, Universal is still thinking it is appropriate to do so in the taiwan disc, it is horrible.

For a CD with a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, the theoretical maximum frequency that can be reproduced is half the sampling rate, or 22.05 kHz. Shouldn't there be a cutoff at around this frequency?

[FadedSun]

Haven't we all agreed by now that most modern music is too fucking loud?

[zeroryouko]

Yes, and those kids also need to get off my damn lawn.

[harry4567]

Yep, the modern music sounds loud. But If you LOVE to get some mp3-like-transcoded CD, then go ahead

NIPPON single:

NIPPON from Hi Izuru Tokoro:


If that's normal, then I'm really sorry for being a kid who spitted on your lawn.