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发表于 2014-5-5 12:53
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来自 四川省成都市
看看 Steve Hoffman 是怎么说的：
Q: What was the hardest one to master?
A: The Eagles' Hotel California. In fact, when we finally got those master tapes from Criteria Studios in Miami, it was like I wanted to cancel the project. We had already paid Elektra/Asylum all the advance money and everything. But I didn't understand how something could sound so muffled and bass-heavy, and be the actual master. So I thought, 'Maybe it's been destroyed.' So I got the safeties, and they were 1:1 copies. They sounded exactly the same way. So I thought, "It must be the way they were mixed." I went in search of [engineer] Bill Szymczyk's JBL monitors (not the exact same pair he used, but a similar pair). I stuck them out in the middle of the room without any bass re-enforcement [like at Criteria in 1976]. "Oh, okay, that sounds more like it!" All that boomy bass was gone, and it started to take shape. I had one or two choices at that point. Either sell a pair of JBL studio monitors with every gold CD, or master the thing the way it should be sounding on everyone's stereo, like it sounds on those JBLs. So that's what I ended up doing. But let me tell you, I scratched my head a long time trying to figure out how to make that sound good. I used a lot of EQ on those. I didn't add any EQ, I just subtracted. Sometimes -14 db at 100 cycles. That's a lot! And even then, it was still pretty boomy.
——Steve Hoffman[0]
上面这段文字大意是做 re-master 的 Steve 当年拿到加州旅馆的母带时差点都不想干了，他不明白作为母带的东西怎能如此 muffled 和 bass-heavy（低音太重），他以为母带被人坐过一屁股之类的。幸好还有 1:1 复制的备份，一听备份还是那个样，他才想到可能人家 Bill Szymczyk（Eagles 当年的制作人）混完之后就是这个样。于是他去找当年阿标用的音箱，场景还原了一下，哦，原来过去人们造音箱压根没有现在这种被听众的奇怪审美倾向逼出来的「增强重低音」这种奇怪的、不必要的考虑。当时 Steve 觉得自己只有两条路好走：要么随碟卖一对儿 JBL 老箱子，要么针对大家的普通立体声重放环境重混一下。当然他只能走后一条。于是他把低音衰减了很多，即便如此还是有点 boomy（重低音撞击喇叭纸盆的声音）。
于是我们可以推断出，1976 年的母带不怎么样，低音太重，并且跟你把音箱用毯子裹起来听到的效果差不多[1]。Steve Hoffman 重混之后的母带则是专门针对普通设备进行优化的。如果你拿电脑听，CD 跟 Wave 没什么区别——横竖是从同一个音箱里出来的。CD 压缩的过程中很大一部分其实就是把普通喇叭无法重放的频率从原始 Wave 中剔除；如果你拿发烧音响听，还是一样——Steve 商标式的混音就是让你用便宜系统听到贵的声音[2]。 |
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