Speaking of going back to multi track masters with digital mixing, I recently got a copy of Zappa's Roxy Performances, where Craig Parker Adams went back to the 16 track 30 IPS multi tracks, digitized at 24/96 and re-mixed (not sure of process, I haven't read the below article yet)
The fidelity is outstanding, and far superior to any previous Roxy release. Unfortunately it's only 16/44.1. but if enough people request a hi res Like I did, who knows.
Craig was nice enough to email me back, and mentioned he did very little cleanup wise, and he thinks he might not have even used compression! If only all live recordings sounded like this one. But it does speak to all the typical intermediates and generations used in LP process causing huge sonic loss.
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/craig-parker-adams-mixing-frank-zappa
The fidelity is outstanding, and far superior to any previous Roxy release. Unfortunately it's only 16/44.1. but if enough people request a hi res Like I did, who knows.
Craig was nice enough to email me back, and mentioned he did very little cleanup wise, and he thinks he might not have even used compression! If only all live recordings sounded like this one. But it does speak to all the typical intermediates and generations used in LP process causing huge sonic loss.
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/craig-parker-adams-mixing-frank-zappa