scruffy said
thats not quite how remastering works. 

Actually it is, depending on what remastering process was used, such as cleaning up the accapellas, fine tuning the vocals, adjusting the peek levels. All studios use many types of remastering/remixing/revamping. Some studios strip down a song to the original bare track and remaster it. No idea which process was used, maybe they only turned up the full track. Who knows.

Rick Grimes said

scruffy said
thats not quite how remastering works. 

Actually it is, depending on what remastering process was used, such as cleaning up the accapellas, fine tuning the vocals, adjusting the peek levels. All studios use many types of remastering/remixing/revamping. Some studios strip down a song to the original bare track and remaster it. No idea which process was used, maybe they only turned up the full track. Who knows.

cleaning up the acapellas and fine tuning just vocals is definitely not mastering, its’ mixing

J said they didn’t have the recording files for riddle box, just the final songs and a couple instrumentals, so they wouldn’t be able to mix

MitchellKing said
To me, the remaster is almost an insult, to be honest. Riddle Box already sounds perfect, note for note, sound for sound. The remastered version is an abomination! I haven’t heard it yet, but anytime I hear something different from the original it’s going to make me cringe. I mostly bought it for the booklet. I’ve already heard almost all the outtakes online so that’s not a huge selling point for me.

So the remaster is an abomination, yet, you haven’t heard it. Along with magnets, can you tell me how that works? 

They’re not sorry if they tricked you.

just listened…… I was hyped to hear “ink town posse” ,  now that ive heard it, its not new at all…. its from BK50187…

Rick Grimes said

Sean Law said
just listened…… I was hyped to hear “ink town posse” ,  now that ive heard it, its not new at all…. its from BK50187…

Same here, how can it be a Riddle Box outtake if it was recorded before Ringmaster lol.

I’unno, but good to see another MD’er

JiffyLong said
At least I know the name now, don’t hafta refer to it as, “the song at the end of 17 Dead,” anymore. 

Haha right? What I’m wondering is whether or not J and Shaggy think this is a Riddlebox outtake legitimately and have totally forgotten it was on Beverly Kills. It seems a hefty mistake to put it on this CD from a completely different era.

As for the rest of the disc – it’s pretty OK, I guess… I tend to make my own bootleg ICP albums from the outtakes, featured tracks, forgotten freshness, etc. I take songs from a specific era that aren’t featured on an official ICP release and make my own mixtape out of it. I can’t be the only one who does this…

At any rate, my point is I already have most of the songs on this Oddities cd, save for the skits and instrumentals. So sadly, this disc doesn’t add much to my already vast collection of songs.

Sean Law said

Rick Grimes said

Sean Law said
just listened…… I was hyped to hear “ink town posse” ,  now that ive heard it, its not new at all…. its from BK50187…

Same here, how can it be a Riddle Box outtake if it was recorded before Ringmaster lol.

I’unno, but good to see another MD’er

Yessir it is, what part of Maryland do you live in?

Rick Grimes said

Sean Law said

Rick Grimes said

Sean Law said
just listened…… I was hyped to hear “ink town posse” ,  now that ive heard it, its not new at all…. its from BK50187…

Same here, how can it be a Riddle Box outtake if it was recorded before Ringmaster lol.

I’unno, but good to see another MD’er

Yessir it is, what part of Maryland do you live in?

well, I was born and raised in Anne Arundle for 20 yrs. been in FL the past 11

LuckyNumbrXIII said

YakkAttack said
When the announced there will be outtakes from the riddlebox I knew it was BS, they have had 5 forgotten freshness albums… I knew all the good outtakes have been released. lol. I thought.. what the hell could really be left?… and I was right, lol

Honestly, there are more.  If you can get your hands on Mike E. Clark’s “Joker’s Gallery” CD, you’ll see.  Honestly, I figured that’s what they were going to release when they said they “found a whole album worth of shit in Mike Clark’s collection.”

pretty much this