Honestly I was dissapointed with Teddy Riley on Ego Trippin'

[HEC]

honestly i was dissapointed with the whole record. yes the mixing was A+ (i wonder how much doper doggfather would of been with quik mastering?) but if i'm only feelin half of the record, then that's a problem.

you are damn right about the mixing on Doggfather, Quik would have made that record sound incredible

did tha doggfather ever get remastered like alot of the deathrow releases? if it did, i wonder how it sounds compared to the original.

shit, i'd like to hear doggfather, dead man walkin, retaliation, revenge & get back, and 2002 remastered.

I know for sure that Doggfather and Retaliation got remastered and rereleased by Death Row around 2001, I've seen them in stores but I still have my originals so I never copped them, would be interesting to hear the sound

well the only way to find out would be to rip both albums in raw wav format (no compression meaning no mp3) and compare the two in a wav editor (cool edit pro, soundwave, etc)

While it's a long read, it's worth reading if you're an audiophile type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Here's part of the article that should be noted in regards to remastering.

Many recordings have been re-released in remastered form. Pre-LP recordings may be remastered using 'Computer Enhanced Digital Audio Restoration' (CEDAR). Such tools are designed to improve the bandwidth of the recording and to reduce background noise. The critical response to remasters can be mixed. Sometimes an extended frequency response is welcomed, since this can improve the sense of clarity and ambience of the recording. Other times this improved sense of ambience may be counterbalanced by an unnatural and excessive sharpness to the recording.[14]

Many record companies may decide to increase the average RMS level of the recording with the aid of compression, limiting, and/or clipping. This is especially common with pop music remasters. Two screenshots here, of ABBA's "One Of Us", from their 1981 album The Visitors (released on CD in 1983) demonstrate the effect.

The first image is taken from the original Polydor CD release.

The second image is taken from the 2005 remaster (part of the Complete Studio Recordings box set). There is a heavy amount of compression and the dynamics and "snap" of the original track have been lost as a result.

The Examples section contains several other remastered albums that have been remastered in this fashion.

One Of Us (1981) [Original]


One Of Us (2005) [Remastered]

props. I don't own any remastered copies of albums so I really can't comment on the sound quality but it is interesting in how this is done

[D-Stress]

yessir, he can do it better.