Comments on: Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos (Remastered DR11) [Unofficial]

By: Gabs

Gabs — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:18:35 +0000

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

By: biomorfo

biomorfo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:25:13 +0000

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

By: angelusredgrove

angelusredgrove — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:24:35 +0000

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

By: SirCanealot

SirCanealot — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:34:32 +0000

(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

By: Justice For Audio

Justice For Audio — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:18:22 +0000

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!!

By: FranticDav

FranticDav — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:43 +0000

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?

By: Jose Castillo

Jose Castillo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:12:23 +0000

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

By: go

go — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:29:05 +0000

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

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

[IMG]http://imgur.com/1jZ8d.jpg[/IMG]

By: Dreamrafa

Dreamrafa — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:17:59 +0000

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…

By: Justice For Audio

Justice For Audio — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:40:46 +0000

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)