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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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;m going to try to make this happen, and do everything possible to make it a high quality release.
