Category Archives: Remastering

The grit and details of my hobby of digitally remastering from vinyl are discussed here.

REDUX: Remastering: Peter Godwin – Correspondence

Posted on October 17, 2013 by postpunkmonk

August 17, 2010 I posted last week about the first phase of my Associates BSOG®. I’m about 6 weeks into that project, and so I don’t get bogged down, just to keep fresh, I’ve decided to do a quick & … Continue reading →

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A BSOG Deconstructed: China Crisis – Docklands [part 7]

Posted on April 12, 2013 by postpunkmonk

Designing the Package Now that the music had been remastered from vinyl, and the DVD had been remastered from analog video tapes, it remained to actually get down to the business of designing the set. Since I’m a graphic designer … Continue reading →

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A BSOG Deconstructed: China Crisis – Docklands [part 6]

Posted on April 11, 2013 by postpunkmonk

Mastering the DVD With the 22 analog cuts mastered to digital that this project required put to bed, the time came to turn attentions to the DVD that would accompany the box. The 45 cuts rendered nicely down to three … Continue reading →

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A BSOG Deconstructed: China Crisis – Docklands [part 4]

Posted on April 9, 2013 by postpunkmonk

Updating the Running Order The rest of the remastering went fairly smooth. But around this time, a nagging doubt began to manifest itself in my cranium. If I had “This Occupation [extended version]” on 12″ and the “Collection” B-side disc, … Continue reading →

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A BSOG Deconstructed: China Crisis – Docklands [part 3]

Posted on April 8, 2013 by postpunkmonk

Remastering the Vinyl [part 1 • denoising] Now that the contents and running order had been mooted, the next, not inconsequential step, was to digitize the vinyl. That turns out to be basically a 2x realtime process. If you’re lucky. … Continue reading →

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A BSOG Deconstructed: China Crisis – Docklands [part 2]

Posted on April 3, 2013 by postpunkmonk

Yesterday we took a hard look at the accumulated China Crisis collection. But music doesn’t exist in a vacuum the size of my Record Cell. There was also a fan-run China Crisis website called Docklands that was helpful in that time … Continue reading →

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A BSOG Deconstructed: China Crisis – Docklands [part 1]

Posted on April 2, 2013 by postpunkmonk

Yesterday when posting about one of my projects, a reader commented “where can I get one of these?” and I flippantly answered him with a bullet list of the process I underwent, but I thought, since work like this is … Continue reading →

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