Thanks so much. I have been dying to hear what this album would sound like with the dynamics restored.

Holy Crap! I had to turn down the volume because the kick drum was shaking the room! Nice work!

If you can do Repentance that would be great. I think that song suffers the most from lack of dynamics. It is a dirge that slowly builds but you can barely hear the volume changes.

http://studio.justiceforaudio.org/dream_theater/systematic_chaos/05 – Repentance.flac

Enjoy!!

DUDE YOUR MY HERO!!!!
It sounds a billion times better!!!
thank u so much!!!!!!! Petrucci’s guitar has so much more character
Could u do Slipknot’s Disasterpiece off of Iowa? Andy wallace’s mixes on that album are so brilliant, but the overcompression ruins it. Joey Jordison’s double bass on that song could be so much more menancing with oodles of dynamic range

Thank you so much! This is just amazing. What exactly is the process of re-mastering these albums and how easy is it? Well, for you.

Will u be doing ‘Train of Thought’ in the future? this album also suffers lack of dynamic range and would sound 1000 times better if this was restored

I can have a look at that – however the aim is not to go around to every possible album to re-do them but more to give real examples of how a subset of songs or albums would sound with increased dynamics etc – hence the need to limit the number of re-masterings basically

I thought Octavarium needs more of a dynamic range treatment. IMO, Train of Thought sounds fine, but Octavarium sounds pretty flat.

In the unofficial DR rated list, Train of Thought has a range of 6 verse Octavarium’s 7 – very close but i think Train of Though’ts DN a tad worse (though Octavarium is the better album imo)
that being said – it would be awesome if they were both mastered by the masterful jNive

The downloads for #1 and #6 don’t work… can you give me some help here? I really want to hear the full masterpiece that you’ve created (and don’t want to waste a CD-R on an album with gaps in it).

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How are these being remastered? What is the complete process and what is the source? If you are using the original mastered files as they appear on the cd anything you do to them is actually going to make them worse there is no way to “restore” lost audio from a source that has so much clipping. The audio data is clipped off and does not exist and can not be recovered. Are you using some unmastered files here to do this? If not you are simply pulling off some smoke and mirrors and the lowered volume is essentially fooling people into believing it has more audio data than it really does. No matter what you do to the source the missing data is missing because though it is audio it is technically 1s and 0s and once those are cut out there is not getting them back with any hardware or magic plug-in. Please give us some in depth detail on your sources for this otherwise you are probably doing more harm than good by probably deleting even more of the audio data by altering it.

As detailed previously and on the forum – these are technical estimate samples of a more dynamic CD mastering than the original. In no way is lost audio data attempting to be ‘restored’ – the aim is to make the existing audio data that is there more balanced & dynamic (the tools for this do not alter the spectral content) – in addition to removing the added harmonics or random noise added on clipped peaks (again not attempting to create false harmonics, just removing the noise-inducing components).

Overall, as mentioned – these are intended to give an idea only of what the recording might sound like if a more dynamic master was originally used and not clipped either (seperate issue to te over-compression)

So, this is just “an idea of what the recording might sound”… And it is not a REAL proper remastering?, you work here looks very interesting tough, hope you could get the original unmastered files to make it sound as it should…

made some updated album art with the “JFA wave” and tag.

http://imgur.com/1jZ8d.jpg

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great job man! btw you should check in the presence of enemies pt1 at minute 4:49 it seems like a strange noise over there

I’m listening on these Sennheiser HD480 headphones I got recently and it sounds superb!

But I found something weird in “In The Presence of Enemies – Part I”:

On 4:54, what is that loud bang?

Hmm most likely it is an artifact created during the declipping stage of the song – will need to double check that – it occasionally causes abnormal infinite spikes to occur – usually sounding like either a pop, a loud crack, or worst case, a large bang – I though most they were all taken care of, but one or 2 might have been missed!!

(I posted this comment on the site where I originally noticed this mix, may as well post it here…)

I have to say this mix doesn’t sound worse than the original mix, but I’m not sure how much “better” it sounds. It definitely sounds less harsh (which makes it worth replacing on my mp3 player…), but I need to make a comparison with the original CD by making the CD the same volume…

The 5.1 mix has always had a little less limitting, I need to do/find a good stereo downmix of that sometime… ^^;;

Thanks for making the attempt though. SC has such a great mix, but the limiting just makes it sound SO harsh and hard to listen to. Any improve is fantastic in my opinion

i just came across this
http://www.petrucciforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47473
and it gave me the idea that, with Systematic Chaos – which ur probably over remastering by now – out of the 6 channels u could seperate them, then possibly individually remaster each channel hich might be ocassionally dominated by a single instrument and allow for more customization to get each instrument closer to how u want it to sound. Now im not sure whether this was originally remastered from the 5.1 mix or not – u havent stated
btw theres still an odd bit in ITPoE pt 2 where it gets louder then back to normal again – i forget where it is, since i leveled the volume myself, this is only for other people’s sake

hey the link is broke… pls repost this files!!! THANKS!!!

Hey the links are broken, could you please update the files? Thanks

Could you please update the files?
The links are broken

links updated in original posting

The first track is not complete…
Could you reupload?
Thank you very much!!!