I read at shoutbox that LFF is remastering Graceland. I wonder if it will be commercial or LFF just doing his hobby.
The big recordings (aka famous albums) I do for personal use. I have done Graceland and Grace and about 2,000 other recordings. The ones I get the most comments about are my remasters of The Beatles, Californication, Graceland, All Things Must Pass, the Sinatra catalog, Dean Martin catalog and my binaural recordings. For comparisons sake, I usually put my remaster against those by MFSL (or XRCD releases) as well as the original recording so people can properly A/B/C the differences.
My professional work has been mainly for movie studios and some small but difficult restorations for a few big name clients who must remain unnamed with the independent artist here and there.
Often times I pour a lot of my time into mastering an artists work to be natural sounding and dynamic but all too often they feel it sounds muffled or not loud enough. I have had more than a few strongly worded exchanges with "all-in-one" engineers and producers as well. In those cases, I rather turn down the work and let someone else ruin their music but I like to maintain my ideals. I could definitely make a living if I did as I was told but due to my constant refusal, my mastering/restoration services have become a side-line kind of thing for past 2 years.
