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Re: [ARSCLIST] Quad and SACD (was Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning)



I don't think you could do this with the SACD format. However, no reason this couldn't be done as a 2-disc package, one being a regular stereo CD and one being a DVDR data disc with the tracks as WAV files or a Protools session. I am surprised someone hasn't done this as a publicity stunt -- "Remix My Trax, Dude" with a contest or something tied into a slow-selling concert tour. Of course, even a DVDR would only hold a couple of short tunes of 24 WAV tracks at CD resolution.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Quad and SACD (was Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning)



Tom Fine wrote:

But then, finally, the hybrid capacity comes on line and what uses most of the manufacturing in the world for the first few months (at least according to numerous accounts I've heard)? 2-CHANNEL remasters of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan 1960's catalogs! Back to the future, SACD as a "superior stereo" format again, yet most people bought the discs to play on regular old CD players. By the time that dust had settled and variety of hybrid discs with 5.1 SACD and 2-ch CD layers were on the market, consumer interest in the format was gone and the number of universal DVD/SACD players was limited, plus there were no-name Chinese DVD players at Wal-Mart for $35 in time for Christmas.

You know what would be very interesting is to produce a hybrid SACD with a "normal" stereo mix plus the separate multitracks. As I type this it just dawned on me that your mother did exactly that with the Mercury Living Presence SACD issues...


Admittedly, the Mercury Living Presence SACDs were only THREE tracks :D, but there have to be some pop music fans-cum-gearheads who would love to be able to try their hand at remixing some venerable 4-, 8- 16- or even 48-track masters in their home studios.

Michael Shoshani



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