Rhino's EEAS (and Skyscraper?) remaster

[warrior33]

remastering all the david lee roth solo albums with demos now that wood be real kick ass!!! i wish all the van halen albums the roth years had demos on thoes cds!!!

[ELVIS]

Hmmm...

[Casemeister]

Just because an album isn't mastered loud doesn't mean it's not mastered WELL.

Louder isn't better. Usually, to make a CD sound loud, they compress it. That reduces its dynamic range. What is the point of "squashing" a recording so that you can't take full advantage of the format they're being delivered on?

A good mastering engineer could make these albums sound a bit better, but they have an '80s sheen that will always be there.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Casemeister
Just because an album isn't mastered loud doesn't mean it's not mastered WELL.

Louder isn't better. Usually, to make a CD sound loud, they compress it. That reduces its dynamic range. What is the point of "squashing" a recording so that you can't take full advantage of the format they're being delivered on?

A good mastering engineer could make these albums sound a bit better, but they have an '80s sheen that will always be there.

I see what you mean, as you made it really clear.
But it's still quite disappointing when you've just listened to any album from the 6-pack, and then fancy playing EEAS or "Skyscraper", and have to turn the volume seriously up... OK, it's not that big an effort (I mean, turning up the knob), but then I always tell myself, "well, there's something missing here".
That said, I understand your point.

The new guitar player in my band is a professional musician in a band that's released their second album a few months ago (it's French swing, but we play blues and rock 'n' roll).
After our last gig, he complained about the mastering of the record, which was obviously a bit weaker than the rest that the DJ played after our concert. He played a couple of songs, and every time it came up after and before stuff that sounded louder (the DJ had to turn the volume level up a little every time.
And that really pisses him, as the guy who recorded his other band in Geneva has got the rights on the mastering. So, unless they suddenly sell hundreds of thousands and can afford paying the guy to get the rights back, the record, which is really beautiful, will always remain that way, and the pleasure of those who made it will always be tarnished.

Well, anyway, who owns the rights for both EEAS and "Skyscraper", by the way?