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In 2011, a freak accident occurred during a recording session which caused an external HDD to collide at speed with a wall. This contained backups of the Neotokyo sessions and other work. Some of these were the only surviving copies after my primary HDD failed shortly before. >
I lost a ton of priceless stuff... but I got over it. The thing is.. I really want to put out the Neotokyo OST on vinyl, but I don't have unmastered mixes of many of the tracks, due to the HDD incident. Vinyl from CD masters is common but compromised. >
I have been recreating missing elements, but it's not the same.. That project has become a redux\\2.0\\interpretive version of the OST, not a remaster. So my question.. is it worth releasing NT:OST vinyl sourced from the cd masters, even though quality will be limited?
Update: Scouring every archived harddrive I have, I have uncovered raw mixes for some of the tracks. I know there will be some missing due to the date range of the drive, but this means that many key tracks can benefit from a remaster. The others, I at least have them in 24 bit.
I have been conferring with someone with expertise in the matter, and even from mastered sources there are things that can be done to improve the quality and optimize for vinyl. I'm going to try to make this happen, and do everything possible to make it a high quality release.
Sorry about the tweet barrage, but on this one archive drive which I thought was a dead-end... Just discovered some temp\\wav-dump folders and I'm finding mixes I never found due to unhelpful filenames. If this holds true for another drive there's a chance I have everything :o
