I'm glad we had at least 150 or so pages of good discussion until nerds derailed it.

Agreed. Some sections they do fit; you can tell they were trying something ambitious and on another level than the version we have entirely. A well assimilated orchestral version would have topped it.

Literally makes zero sense. I don’t know why people are running with this narrative lol

This way better than AWT, like I said, this would've topped Illmatic

we have spoken to a member of Jay's camp and this is exactly what he said

im doing that tomorrow morning

Didn't realize the Oblivion99 remaster has the Latonya Givens cover as the intro for Life on Mars

Gotta decide which is better. I think OG with mercury in retrograde sample is best actually.

Then it’s literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen Jay-z do

yeah that's partially correct but mastering is more about making sure the levels of the audio are equalized and proper u don't typically do mastering on stems, maybe its done, but if ur adjusting the volume of individual stems then that's mixing

Mastering is usually done on one file and that is usually the mixed unmastered file. For the one I did, Eq, compression, limiters, equalizer were used. Panning is definitely a part of the mix tho, I just want to center the audio, but the proper way to do that would be with stems.

I don't think the panning is what they wanted, the albums is not finished and mike chav said the mixing wasn't complete and there's some errors in the audio like the jump in levels on dinner at tiffanys. So I think its just happened to turn out that like that

Didn’t he do this to J Cole his first album?

gotta try that one next, on this AWT relisten rn though

Neverending Story still a 12/10 might not be Better in Tune level transcendent but that's a beyond perfect rap song for sure, prolly one of my fav Alc beats too

100%. The panning was definitely unintentional. Whoever engineered it just bounced it bad and would've been fixed in the final release

didn’t know that, good looks

one thing does confuse me though:

the mixtape remasters that drop on streaming years after initial release. usually, the main difference is that the volume of the snares is lowered while everything else is amplified. like on So Far Gone

so u can master audio in a way that brings more attention to certain elements and frequencies, but I have feeling that most of those mixtape "remasters" are a combination of remixing and remastering, but its just bundled up as remastering since that is the most common term for updating the sound of a project

cannot believe I'm listening to Act 2 right now

2020 full of surprises

Yup in agreement. This is basic sound design that went wrong somehow in the bounce, not an artistic decision.

Act , Act 2 and AWT are all amazing albums imo. AWT is defo Jay Electronicas sound

imma prolly post this again cause most of you just wanna listen to Jay Elec in here rn, but Charlotte Gainsbourg is a really great artist in her own right and pretty underrated imo

made a great album prod by Beck (I don't even like dude that much but he snapped on this)

and an even better album prod by Sebastian (the fazebook dude from Blonde)

also as an actress apart from all her great work with Lars Von Trier she also made a really good film with the Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry called Science of Sleep. Not quite the masterpiece that film is, more wacky fun but really charming imo
youtu.be/dHtE0szIip0

J cole and jay e are extremely different tho

Jay Elect could've been the GOAT, wut could've been

Maybe Goldwatch will release Into the Light now

He always said it was to come out with the album

Please I need this with the full 7 minute DMT

lot of the tracks on FNL were supposed to be on Coles debut but label wanted a more mainstream sound