Tom Petty speaks about high resolution audio & mastering sound quality

[Shadorne]

 

 

Tom Petty had released a lot of new remastered albums from mostly the original studio masters. Mastering is done by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. (Grundman have kept a lot of original old tape machines - probably one of the few studios with the appropriate gear to do a proper job)

 

Ryan Ulate supervised it.

 

Looks like Tom Petty is still using ATC loudspeakers in his studio.

 

HDTracks have all the newly remastered albums in high resolution. Even better is that they appear to be all remastered to get more dynamic range than is normally done for mass market.

 

Basically they are how Tom likes it to sound to him on ATC speakers once he is finished working on the production with his sound engineer.

[firedog]

Great. An artist who gets it and doesn't volume compress his hi-res releases

[wwaldmanfan]

Great. An artist who gets it and doesn't volume compress his hi-res releases

 

No, just the CD's you bought the first time around...

Echo

Highway Companion

Mojo

The Last DJ

You're Gonna Get It

Wildflowers

Damn The Torpedos Deluxe Edition

[firedog]

yes, I understand. But I was making a comment in reference to most rock/pop artists - whose hi-res releases are also volume compressed. I'm glad TP didn't also do that.

 

No, just the CD's you bought the first time around...

Echo

Highway Companion

Mojo

The Last DJ

You're Gonna Get It

Wildflowers

Damn The Torpedos Deluxe Edition

[HiResSteve]

I believe old Tom was part of the Pono launch and had a signature model when that came out, so I guess it all ties in. I'm glad he's pushing the hires stuff.

[Shadorne]

I believe old Tom was part of the Pono launch and had a signature model when that came out, so I guess it all ties in. I'm glad he's pushing the hires stuff.

 

Tom loves music. He has a show on Sirius playing his favorited tracks that influenced him. He genuinely likes music and good sound. On tour he uses the latest EAW Anya front of the house system which is only a year old and bleeding edge technology.

 

He fought the record companies in the past for more artistic control.

 

I think Tom is the genuine thing - an American Rock'n Roll Legend.

 

I have a massive collection of albums just like many of you here. I welcome this news. It won't change the sorry state of music production overnight but things have to start one person at a time. As a RHCP fan I am ashamed of their overly compressed sound quality given they are all superb musicians, as Tom says in the interview - why should we get only 5% of what is recorded and heard by the artist in the studio?