Once Chris Vrenna remixed their debut album in 2002 on ProTools; I presume he must've taught Dave Mustaine (or someone must've taught him). So basically, he'd convert the drum takes to MIDI and replace them individually with sounds from a Drum kit of sorts. He'd also re-EQ'd the bass up a bit (Peace Sells is strong in why the bass should not be EQ'd how it was on the 2004 rerecording...) Sometimes Dave would use alternate takes for songs like Take No Prisoners and also have things appear where they weren't (bass breakdown at the end of the Wake Up Dead 2004 rerecording where there's bass brought up where it didn't appear in the original master) For their debut album, they spent half the budget of their album on drugs forcing them to fire the producer leaving them no one to produce it but themselves at that time. The 2018 remixes do justice for the originals (except These Boots both remixes aren't good :(.)
Right on. It's likely Dave didn't actually make all the mixing moves but was likely in the room telling someone exactly what to do and how it should sound, but who knows!
the only thing that really bothers me about the remasters is in the 2004 remaster of take no prisoners, the bass solo sounds really boring and quiet, in the original it sounds way cooler
I think the Paul Lani mixes that are included on the remastered version of SFSGSW are the best sounding versions of the songs. There's only alternate versions of "Set the World Afire", "Mary Jane", "Into the Lungs of Hell", and "In My Darkest Hour" though. The mix is a lot more balanced, but still has the rawness that makes that album awesome. Dave should have went with those versions in my opinion.
Those are really cool sounding. For some reason, Dave thought they were muddy, which is pretty ironic considering the mixes we end up getting on the 1988 release.
One of my biggest complaints (specifically with the first three albums) is the removal of the reverb on Dave’s vocals. The reverb on the original mixes added an extra layer of darkness to the overall tone of his voice that’s pretty much missing on the 2004 versions.
Yeah I'm also not a fan of these "remaster" versions either. Like I would have no issue if they were actually remastered meaning that a new mastering would have been applyed to the original mixes. That being said you didn't have to sqeeze those tracks like it was 2004 - he could've just made them louder, but not 2004 loud. Funny enough I believe 2004 was one of the years where ludness mastering reached it's peak obsession and I'm actually glad it couldn't really go anywhere from there or else we'd be listening to noise by now. Personally I stick to -9.5ish db RME average.... somewhere around there - sometimes lower. He could've made these remasteres lower and it would've been ok. The problem however that I have with these "remasters" is that they're remixed and not in a good way. If he had done remixes I wouldn't mind either if only they sounded better. One obvious example would be the sound of So Far So Good drums - they sound really horrible remixed ://
p.s. ow yeah and one more thing. I always wished for an actual re-recorded version of Killing is my Business. Can you imagine that album recorded with like "A World Needs a Hero" sound? That would've been pretty awesome. And If I was Dave, I would actually use the original tapes of vocal recordings, re-record everything else - possible with Chris Polland doing the leads. And if they had done it pre 1999 perhaps they could actually even get Gar to do his drum tracks again.
Modern mastering methods have gotten better too. "The Final Kill" is crushed but still sounds good. People just crushed things back then and it sounded really crowded and overhyped.
its dumb stuff that ruins these remasters like new backing vocals on five magics or the enhanced wooooo in the middle of mary jane or louder french horns in the beginning of into the lungs of hell . That super long pause on final kills loved to death. Every new version has a longer pause while the demo almost no pause at all . just bam , smack in the face
bro.. this isn't a remaster, this is REMAKE. Why you gotta do this to us Dave? Of all the "remixes" I never liked Megadeths, some other metal bands seem to do it right just not these.
@@MakeTheMusic They had remasters in 1998 and 2015. The 2015 remasters sound muddy, too much bass and mids. It drowns out the clarity. The 98 remasters weren't much better also, but when i put my 2015 killers vinyl on i literaly need to eq with the treble fully open to have a "decent" listen.
