Love - Forever Changes: Remixed [Prof. Stoned 2022]
16bit/44.1kHz CD Quality FLAC
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01. Alone Again Or
02. A House Is Not a Motel
03. Andmoreagain
04. The Daily Planet
05. Old Man
06. The Red Telephone
07. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
08. Live and Let Live
09. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer in the Summer
11. You Set the Scene
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Total time: 43m0s
Stereo Mixes & Mastering: Prof. Stoned (July/Aug 2022)
v1.0: 05-08-2022
v1.1: 22-03-2023 (extraction flaw fixed on Tr. 1 starting at 2.07; maybe the panning of the horns is a bit heavy handed now but at least you don't those ugly artifacts anymore)
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Original Credits:
Arthur Lee – guitar, vocal
Bryan MacLean – guitar, vocal
John Echols – lead guitar
Ken Forssi – bass
Michael Stuart-Ware – drums, percussion
with
Carol Kaye – bass guitar on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"
Don Randi – keyboards on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"; piano on "Old Man" and "Bummer in the Summer"; harpsichord on "The Red Telephone"
Billy Strange – electric rhythm guitar on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"
Hal Blaine – drums on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"
David Angel – arranger, orchestrations
Strings: Robert Barene, Arnold Belnick, James Getzoff, Marshall Sosson & Darrel Terwilliger (violins) Norman Botnick (viola); Jesse Ehrlich (cello); Chuck Berghofer (string bass)
Brass: Bud Brisbois, Roy Caton & Ollie Mitchell (trumpets); Richard Leith (trombone)
Bruce Botnick and Arthur Lee – Producers
Bruce Botnick – Engineer
Jac Holzman – Production Supervisor
William S. Harvey – Cover Design
Bob Pepper – Cover Art
Ronnie Haran – Back Cover Photo
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Note:
Here's another remix of a seminal album.
The multi's of this one are long gone, meaning no actual remix of the 8-track tapes is possible. That is unfortunate because many listeners feel the original mix has its problems but it's pretty much all we have (the mono was a folddown of the stereo and the alt. mix is very poorly balanced). That's why I felt inclined to try and improve this, using spectral extraction and a few other tricks to bring out as much detail in the instruments and as fine a balance as I could.
I've been going over this for the last three weeks and once again I was mesmerized by the exquisite beauty of this masterpiece. As much as I like S/T and Da Capo, this third album is just an entirely different ball game. Being the brilliant but highly erratic artist that he was, Arthur Lee must have been crushed by the world's initial indifference towards his magnum opus.
I'm very pleased with how this has turned out. There are obvious limitations to the techniques I had to resort to but I feel it has been turned into a legitimate 'new' version. Hope you enjoy.
Tech. note: I was gonna do a hirez version of this (24/88.2) but turns out demix-pro did not support this standard. It actually supports the file format but after conversion pretty much all information above 21kHz was not there anymore in the resulting stems, so redbook it is.
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Source: the 2014 MOFI SACD (mastered by Rob Loverde)
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I have used the following digital studio gear and monitoring in the making of this:
- DeMix Pro 3.0.1
- Cubase
- Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite Quad-Core (incl. various extra plugins I purchased over the years)
- PMC IB2s & iLoud Micro monitors
- Adobe Audition
- Izotope RX9
