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Led Zeppelin-newly remastered

The new Led Zeppelin compilation sees the first remastering of their material for 17 years or so.

Oh and it sounds great,clarity and thump to the fore as Zep sound better than they ever did on CD.
Mothership was mastered by John Davis.

I guess the biggest bone of contention on this double CD is the choice of tracks, every serious Zep fan is going to find several favourites missing.

Lets hope this will lead to each studio album getting state of the art Redbook remastering.
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metralla
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Do you like the Page remasters? I'm with Geoffkait and don't much care for Page's transfers. I prefer the originals; the best mastering I have is by Dave Collins on the 2001 Promo (2500 copies) 3 CD Set - Warner Bros. Retro Active RA-003.

Regards,
metralla
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Amansker, if you have the original transfers from the '80s, then you have Barry Diament's mastering on all but 1 - Joe Sidore mastered LZ IV. Except for the compilation by Dave Collins I mentioned above, these are by far the best digital transfers.

The later remasters by Marino, and the final digital transfers by Jimmy Page, are not as good as the originals.

Now with the Mothership, there has been some very fancy fiddling in the digital domain by John Davis at Alchemy Mastering using Page's digital transfers to produce the sound you are hearing. You might wonder how they managed to get that drum sound.

I'm happy you are enjoying Mothership. I just want to remind readers that no one went back to the original analogue tapes and remastered them. They took Jimmy's digital transfers and worked some magic on them.

Regards,
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