yeah, the remasters have to stand as they are. and they do generally sound punchier, and have better separation on the instruments. further, the higher mix is absolutely closer to the source.

there's a few tracks that do have one aspect or another in the originals that i like better, but dumping them in will pose continuity problems - because the tracks run into each other. it's kind of like the whole thing has to be done one way or another...

i know i'm going to revisit this again. as i stated before: it's probably impossible to get it perfect. but i'll wait until i do the reconstructions before i touch it further.

i'm going to end up trying to rebuild both of these from scratch. i fully realize that. but that's not a quick project, and i can't be doing it right now.

so, back to inri041...this shouldn't take too long to get up, maybe by the end of the night, even.

when i do the reconstructions, i'm going to be focusing on a handful of song suites rather than individual tracks. both the discs are split into 19 tracks. but i'll be interpreting it in runs of 5 or 6. so, it will be easy enough to sort of dump a mix out that i can shape back into an uplifted version of the source. but whether this is feasible or not is going to depend on how much i can phase shift out. i'm using different sound cards to take it in, they've been compressed...i keep saying i can't do this, but i sort of don't want to believe it, even though i know it's true. bah. out of mind. forwards!