steve hoffman forums, C or D?

I'm not sure if there are re-recorded guitar parts on that reissue. it's not the best sounding reissue though. but that's also not the best sounding album in any version.

"Bob Ezrin taking the Hoff to task over his work on Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies was also pretty hilarious."

where was that?

any truth to the story that All Things Must Pass had *re-recorded* guitar parts etc on the CD issued in 2001? admittedly i only ever read this tale on the forums in question.

― piscesx, Monday, April 17, 2017 9:15 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, it's a load of bollocks. There was some overdubbing on 'I Live For You', which was recorded at the sessions but unfinished, so it was brought up to scratch and put out as a bonus track.

"jumped up cutting engineer" ... Ouch.

#ethered

xxxpost:

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/adventures-in-mastering-alice-cooper-billion-dollar-babies-for-audio-fidelity.334492/page-3

holy shit that's amazing

xp ahh gotcha, makes sense. i still love ATMP's production, especially on What Is Life and Awaiting On You All; that hazy, blurry chaotic racket.

i think the one thing that is really unforgivable is that he sold his own CDrs of his remaster work for All things Must Pass to the highest bidder (also, some other unreleased mastering jobs) in order to keep his site going. But he prohibits discussion or links to bootlegs on the site (actually that seems to have been loosened up quite a bit lately). I mean, he essentially personally profited off a bootlegged master and leaked that into the pirate market.

if you ask about that on the site your message gets swifly deleted

See also: the Buddy Holly/The Picks saga.

As detailed here:

http://www.houstonpress.com/music/bone-to-pick-6567653

the concept of a forum moderated and owned by a very opinionated opinionated poster who dislikes dissent is... not appealing

as anyone who's ever visited the byrnerobotics.com forums can attest

that buddy holly story is fucking weird.

Enjoying this one a lot right now. http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6703
I was checking out the Hoffman board for years before discovering Stereo Central, like an amazing payoff to a joke which had been going on for a ridiculous length of time.

a lot of the excesses are genuinely amusing but jesus there's some depressing shit in there too -- here's the Hoff on "aspirations":

You certainly are free to enjoy my masterings on a boombox or a Pioneer receiver and some beat up BIC speakers from 1975 but to not even strive to save to get something better eventually, that's just denial. The goal is to enjoy your music on the best system you can, no matter your price range or salary bracket. If that means eating out of a few cans and skipping Starbucks on the way to work for a few months, so be it. Get it done.

here he is later, from the above linked Billion Dollar Babies thread, lamenting being told to cease and desist making those threads detailing his work on the Audio Fidelity remasters:

Eh, no big deal, I talk too much anyway. No one in charge really likes me blabbing about mastering experiences (no record company suits, legal, etc.) so maybe it's for the best.

For me it's like a stress release after a big project, to talk about it to people who might care. Otherwise it just ends cold turkey and I sometimes go into a tailspin.

all of this can be yours etc

I'm just more amazed at how busy that place is!

You look at page one, and the last thread on the page is, what, (just looked) 36 minutes old wrt last message?

Audiophiles be Audiophillin'

You know it goes a lot deeper than that. Steve hasn’t set up this forum to have smart asses correct him. It’s also not your job to invite engineers to our site to be questioned like a jury. A PM to get a gort to send a formal invitation would have been more appropriate.

'gort'?

http://www.jeffbots.com/gort.jpg

yup, that's what they call mods

ffs

They don't FP, they invoke klaatu barada nikto

http://i.imgur.com/GZce8rT.jpg

LOL!

Yeah, they really don't "get" hip-hop/rap at all over at the retirement home.

the dumb part is Frank was talking about the Beatles and the Stones and all the 60s classic rock they endlessly jack off over

'we were all afraid to go in the other studio' ooooof

not sure what track those totally real lyrics are from

who could forget MC Gangsta's classic "I'm a Big Big Big Black Motherfuckin' Man"?

from his sophomore joint fuck steve hoffman iirc

If he doesn't still have a copy of the footage maybe CNN could oblige.

if cnn does have the footage but cnn is FAKE NEWS then did it really happen at all

makes u think

original master tapes or it didn't happen

Steve Hoffman masters records where you can hear bleed through the walls from another studio? He should try putting up some baffling

Already baffled enough tbh

I'm a Hoff Man, I'm an old Hoff Man, I'm a big old white remasterin' Hoff Man.

the worst thing about that MC Gangsta record is that it was mastered with pre-emphasis iirc

Interesting how he felt the need to censor "fuck", "motherfucking" and "bitch", but not "nigga" ...

"Needless to say" a CNN news crew happened to be there.

Obviously that mastering studio didn't have brickwalls. See what I did there?

Stereo Central has suddenly disappeared? (was there Monday...)

http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php

i think about that 'rapper' story frequently since reading that. lol that they were scared to go next door

that story reads so much like it was lifted from this facebook page, I can't believe its real

i wonder if specifically mentioning he was mastering nat king cole was equivalent to saying 'i'm not racist, but...'

Having a quick glance over at the retirement home, seems someone has woken 'em up by stating that Kraftwerk are more influential on modern music than The Beatles...

it's a common-held notion that electronic music isn't made with 'real' instruments, o'er at the SHF (MOJO magazine of music bbssus)

*bbs's

Ahh man, c'mon. You can't just say that and not post a link!

It was on the first page of the forum last time I checked!