Metallica - Ride The Lightning 1984 (Unique Custom Remaster, 200

Metallica - Ride The Lightning 1984 (Unique Custom Remaster, 2007) FLAC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Info ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -Source material: FLAC Lossless ("Metallica - Ride The Lightning {DCC Gold CD} (2000) [FLAC]") -New Encoding: FLAC Lossless (In other words, full quality compressed to generally about 1/2 of an Audio CD size) -Total Size: 337 MB -Total Play Time: 00:47:36 -Tracklist: 1. Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire (Remastered) (4:45) 2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Remastered) (6:41) 3. Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls (Remastered) (5:09) 4. Metallica - Fade To Black (Remastered) (6:59) 5. Metallica - Trapped Under Ice (Remastered) (4:08) 6. Metallica - Escape (Remastered) (4:24) 7. Metallica - Creeping Death (Remastered) (6:35) 8. Metallica - The Call Of Ktulu (Remastered) (8:55) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- General Info ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So here is "Ride The Lightning". The source CD is the remastered Gold edition (Same for "Master Of Puppets"). This source sounded quite a bit better than Master of Puppets I would say. Still the same EQ problems, but audio overall is much better and there is less distortion and troublesome resonances and such, especially in the lower frequencies. On the other hand the vocals sometimes sound slightly "unnatural" with some frequencies sticking out, compared to the "Puppets" vocals that always seemed even and clear. Anyways, the changes on this one is alot more subtle than "Master Of Puppets". Since the bassfrequencies were alot better I didn't have to do much creative changes with harmonic processors etc to get a smooth even sounding low end. There is still some subtle work there but alot less intrusive than "Puppets". There is also denoising on alot of the tracks that benefit from it, an example being the acoustic intro to "Fade To Black". The Original has very audible noise that starts as the guitar track starts. This is now gone. Also there is some decrackling applied on parts of tracks where just a guitar is heard. These parts are sometimes a bit distorted on the original but decrackling it takes some of the edge off. Whenever there are drums involved though it isn't applied since it also takes the edge of drum sounds. The drawback with denoising like I've done is that tracks that fadeout at the end usually gets more and more "muted" as the volume get's lower and lower (Since denoising is usually a "threshold" type process, when teh audio volume descreases during the fade-out the denoising process becomes more aggressive. It would be less problematic if it had been applied to the "master tapes" before fade-outs etc were done. You'll have to live with it. :) Other than that, just lots of EQ to correct the skewed spectrum of the original. Stuff sounds alot more natural now, and there is air and openness to the highend. I would have liked to Equalize each instrument individually in this case though. "Master Of Puppets" was quite well-Equalized in regards to the balance between vocals and instruments. All that needed was an overall adjustment to balance the sound. Here the vocals tend to lack air and presence a bit when compared to the hihats. Not much change needed, but it would have been nice. Also the acoustic guitars on "Fade To Black" might seem slightly bright (real acoustic guitars are usually quite dull in the sound, although the guitars here could be steelstringed or of a different model than the "usual" acoustic guitar), although I quite like the sound. It's constantly a compromise between having an instrument as bright as it should be while not making others too bright in the process. :) No real compression or such applied either, the original sounds great in that aspect. So, this one "might" please purists slightly more than my more "restored" version of "Master Of Puppets". The sound has still changed quite drastically thanks to EQ, but not much "creative" changes so to speak. Make sure to listen on a good pair of headphones or a stereo setup Hope you enjoy, and you are very welcome to leave a comment if you feel like it (and know where to find the original torrent obviously). :)

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rapthor666 (2007-08-27)

Thnxs m8 for all the hard work on this and the other albums

Tech-Noir (2007-08-27)

No problem. ;)
Let me know how you like it if you want. :)

guscadle (2007-09-05)

What program do I open to enjoy this? What do I download?

Tech-Noir (2007-09-05)

Haven't done Kill 'Em All. Tried but it is hard to improve without remixing etc.
To "use" the files, you need to use a program that can read the .flac files. Newer versions of Winamp has a .flac decoder/reader built in, or you can download a flac plugin from winamp for older winamp versions. Windows Media Player I am not sure supports it. If you have a mp3 etc converter program, it might be able to convert the .flac files to .wav to get the raw .wav files out (which WMP can play).

JoshM22 (2008-01-21)

Someone please seed. I will re-seed when my download is finished.

JoshM22 (2008-01-21)

All I can say is wow. This remaster is good enough to get an official release. The acoustic guitar in Fade to Black just shines like a diamond. Good work. Thank you

Tech-Noir (2008-01-23)

Well thanks mate. :)

phound (2008-01-27)

great work...thanks for sharing all your talented efforts.
have you ever thought of doing a remaster of magical mystery tour (beatles)? that would be an interesting project.
what other releases would you like to remaster? you should submit a request page and we'll feed you the flacs, then you play with them and rerelease them! :)

Tech-Noir (2008-01-28)

Thanks Phound. :)
I'm not sure what other things I would like to try. ROck and older songs aren't my main genre when listening to music, so my exposure to potentially "bad" quality material is quite limited. Most current releases are either very good quality because of advanced recording methods, or are so clipped and limited you can't really do anything to them.
Also there can only be certain things "wrong" with a song or such for me to be able to actually work on it. Clipping is impossible to recover from. Poorly balanced and EQd instruments in a song can also not be easily corrected in most cases. If I had multitrack mixes, now that would be sweet. But as far as I know there aren't any multitrack mixes to get ahold of easily. 5.1 mixes, where potential could be, aren't mixed (at all to my knowledge) with instruments on discreet channels.
But if you have examples of albums you think might be potential, do let me know. Also real trainwrecks can be fun to try, since they might be hard to make worse so to speak.
As for "submitting a request page", how do you suggest going about that? My idea would be adding a false torrent and then using that page for that, but not sure that would be appreciated by the founders and most of the users of this website. "Spam" comes to mind. :)
Again, thanks for the kind comments.

phound (2008-01-28)

tech-noir:
yeah, you should probably skip the idea of spamming pb with a fake torrent page...never a good idea to piss off these vikings! ;)
a better idea might be to have people submit their ideas here: http://pastebin.ca/875694
it's easily updated and never expires...the problem is that after each edit, a new url is generated, so the url needs to be reposted each time for people to see the changes...maybe not the best solution, after all.
another idea (which i'm kinda surprised pb hasn't done it yet) is to have content request pages...there should certainly be many pages for this, not one 'masterlist', since it would quickly get out of hand considering the volume of torrents on pb. but i thought i'd create a prototype domain: piratebay.pastebin.ca
with a specific request here: http://piratebay.pastebin.ca/875712
hopefully, someone smarter than me can revise and improve upon this idea or come up with better ones.
cheers

Tech-Noir (2008-01-28)

Don't worry, I am from Sweden. ;)
As for the system that could be used, I think it might be better to perhaps use the comments page we are using now on TPB. Using that probably won't constitute spam.
Right now I have some time on my hands for a while, so I could take some suggestions. :)
I'll take a look at "Cure - Disintegration", might be a flac or wav up somewhere.
Also I've been looking some time for a flac of Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing, which could be tweaked a bit in my humble opinion. I find that on speakers most things can sound quite acceptable because of the very nature of speakers (the distance to the ears, the fact that you have ambience from the surroundings to help open up the sound and give space and "air" to any sound, etc), but I also use closed headphones and some things just need tweaking to sound good and not fatiguing on those types of situations.
I'm not looking to make an industry of this hehe, but if anyone has one of those albums that you just love, but always end up trying to equalize with the stereo or such whenever you listen to it to make it less harsh or whatever, it could be a good opportunity. :)

polishgirlzrock (2008-04-04)

There was nothing wrong with it the way it was. Do you think Steve Hoffman doesnt know how to use the techniq

Tech-Noir (2008-04-04)

Hey. :)
Well, this one wasn't as bad as Master Of Puppets, and this one is the one I probably didn't need to change all that much.
BUT, the approach Hoffman took on his Metallica masters was one of purity and keeping the recordings sounding the same. He didn't do much corrections in frequency bands and such. There are different approaches to what you can do when working on music, so you can do things differently without being inherently "wrong".

roryrattlehead (2008-04-04)

anyone having anytrouble converting the FLAC file this site helped me out it will show you how to convert the flac files to wav useing winamp,from there you can conver the wav files to mp3 with another program,i used magic video convertor,the albums work a treat now :)

Tech-Noir (2008-05-22)

Hehe. ;)
Ya, it's still a trainwreck. I never listen to it myself. :)

Focus88 (2008-06-30)

Thanks! =)

fuckingmetallica (2008-07-09)

thx dude , shit is bad ass !
i wish you would do that to kea , inc. & loads .
i know you said something about you really can't do anything to kea but is there a way you can make it louder or w/e like you did with the rest cause this shit awesome ! oh ya could you do i disappear & st.trashcan ? like tone down the trashcan on stanger & make i disappear louder also . & if you can do that would then hell yeah . i also want to ask you if you know how to crop & cut songs ? cause if you know how to do that then you could help out st.trashcan alot besides lowering the trashcan snare if possible . thx tech !

fuckingmetallica (2008-07-09)

oh ya & if you can crop & cut or edit w/e the fuck the could you do this & if not do you know how to turn this into mp3 format even though it has shitty sound quality ? thx again tech

fuckingmetallica (2008-07-09)

damn it , it wouldnt take the link so here ya go , fuck it . it's on youtube just search , Invisible Kid - St. Anger (Murphy's Remix)
yeeaaahhhh ! i want that in mp3 soooo bad bro . its better than the original imo .

jaymzofmetallica (2008-08-19)

Tech-Noir, I was just thinking maybe you could remaster my band's demo cd? :D

jaymzofmetallica (2008-08-19)

Liked what you did with the remasters :D
What's your email address so I can send it to you directly... make the bass drum's double peds clearer and more solid....also the guitars try making them sound like metallica's sound :D hell yeah!!!

jaymzofmetallica (2008-08-19)

You can try listening to our music at myspace or soundclick and search for fade of black or fadeofblack.... pls.....can you remaster our demo? :D

Tech-Noir (2008-08-19)

jaymzofmetallica: Hey mate. :)
Well, I suppose I could take a listen. If I work only with the stereo master files, so to speak, I am very limited with what I can actually do. I only optimize and fix up songs and albums I know actually has potential to be fixed up with the limited methods I have available.
The recording is really the most important. If a bass drum is splashy and undefined when you record it, no amount of post-processing will make it great. It could be improved for sure if I had it isolated in an audio file separate from the rest of the drums. But only working on the stereo master files, that's a tough job. ;)
But if you want to send something be my guest, I'll take a listen and see what I can do, if anything, unless you could somehow get me separate files for the instruments etc (probably not likely but... ;) ).
Email: [email protected]

jaymzofmetallica (2008-08-20)

Tnx man!!! That would be great!!! I'll be sending them now to your email. I hope you could do something about those songs....
If not, still thanks for trying and giving it a shot :D
Hell Yeah!!!

magemasher13 (2008-10-07)

I gotta say man, you are incredible. I never really listened to Metallica until someone recommended one of their albums to me and I stumbled upon your torrent of "Master of Puppets" on Demonoid. I downloaded an MP3 of the same album to compare and the difference is really night and day. I went and got the rest of your Metallica work right after that and it was all awesome. I have to say, though, that this one was my least favorite of the bunch, but solely because the echo on the vocals seems ridiculously overdone, but that's not your fault.

Tech-Noir (2008-10-12)

Yeah, it is really limiting working with stereo mixes.
What's cool is that Individual instrument tracks from Metallica's "Death Magnetic" have been uploaded on TPB. Sadly, the quality on the tracks are consistently poor despite being isolated. Vocals and drums are on the same track which sucks since those are the 2 parts of the songs that really need special individual attention since they are "real" sounds. An overdriven guitar can be EQed in alot of ways and still sounds great, same with bass. So I probably won't be able to do any mixes based on those individual tracks.
Thanks for the encouragement though. I know these aren't really great or even good in most cases, but in some cases you can make a trainwreck slightly more listenable. :)

rypro527 (2008-11-21)

Hey tech noir, great job. i was wondering if you could do a remaster of Led Zeppelin II, as the current 94 remaster sounds terrible in places (mainly the crash symbal. It be awseome if you could get that to sound good. Also, maybe st anger too.

Nolaquen (2009-03-17)

rypro527:
I have a torrent of *a* remaster of St. Anger. I don't know how Teck-Noir's version would sound (if he did it) in comparison, but here's the link:

Nolaquen (2009-03-17)

Tech-Noir, your Justice "remaster" was great! Hah, you did a much better job than I could've ever done. I use Cubase, but I'm waaaaay amateur. You said you didn't like your remaster of Justice, but I liked it. Good job.

ChillyCrossFoot (2010-01-01)

Can someone PLEASE SEED THIS? Been stuck at "0" for the last few days! Thanks Tech-Noir :)

Tech-Noir (2010-01-20)

Hey, sorry for the 19 day delay... :/
Looks like a seeder is present now, hopefully that is enough. My poor ADSL is quite strained as it is.
Should you need to, just comment again and I'll come back and seed. :)

chunky70 (2010-04-30)

could someone reseed this please!stuck on 95%! Great remasters!

Varrok (2012-09-14)

Could anybody seed this one, please? :)

filthy3825 (2015-08-29)

Thank you. Will you remastering Kill "em All?