Pink Floyd The Wall in 5.1

QuadraphonicQuad

Help Support QuadraphonicQuad:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
I can only say that REALLY sounds like a stretch! (I'll go with that pun.)

I think even the most - lets go with the word faithful - devotees to DSD would immediately admit that even a CDR recorder at 16/44.1 would preserve audio better than deteriorating tape! (And of course it would be 24/96 if PCM was used.) And risking losing the master with that?!

Obviously I'd guess the workflow might be to transfer the recording to 24/96 digital and dial in the mix with that. Then swap in the analog recording for the final mix pass. (Fingers tightly crossed. Breath held.)

Could be.

Yeah but anyway, I'd kind of like to hear it one of these years!
 
I can only say that REALLY sounds like a stretch! (I'll go with that pun.)

I think even the most - lets go with the word faithful - devotees to DSD would immediately admit that even a CDR recorder at 16/44.1 would preserve audio better than deteriorating tape! (And of course it would be 24/96 if PCM was used.) And risking losing the master with that?!

Obviously I'd guess the workflow might be to transfer the recording to 24/96 digital and dial in the mix with that. Then swap in the analog recording for the final mix pass. (Fingers tightly crossed. Breath held.)

Could be.

Yeah but anyway, I'd kind of like to hear it one of these years!
The only way we could know for sure would be to ask him directly lol.

I think a solution to the wall dilemma could be to duplicate the baked original multi track reels to some brand new tape stock but then you'd lose a generation.

Although we can all agree doing a straight transfer to pcm 96/192khz 24bit would be the most sensible idea. (Especially since that's what sw and everyone else does)
 
For the inevitable Analogue Productions hybrid SACD version, I think it will have to be. According to Wikipedia, the album is 80 minutes and 42 seconds long. That's just outside the maximum allowable length in the Redbook, and although it can definitely fit on a modern CD, I'm not sure about the CD layer of a hybrid SACD nor the willingness of Pink Floyd Records to release an out-of-spec disc (unless it's a DVD with higher-than-officially-supported Dolby Digital bitrate; thanks, James Guthrie 🙃). Then, there's the SACD layer, which includes a mandatory stereo program. As such, the maximum length of a multichannel SACD is about 74 minutes with the multichannel program using DST compression.
I they drop the whole of side B from the second disc, nobody would care and it would be one disc. A win for everyone. 😏
 
1708697008251.png
 
Do you think the Animals Atmos release has delayed this?
I still think it could be released later this year, but if it doesn't make it out by the end of the year, then I fear we won't see or hear it until 2026, cause the release for 2025 is bound to be 50th Anniversary editions of "Wish You Were Here", including a very probable Dolby Atmos mix of the album
 
I still think it could be released later this year, but if it doesn't make it out by the end of the year, then I fear we won't see or hear it until 2026, cause the release for 2025 is bound to be 50th Anniversary editions of "Wish You Were Here", including a very probable Dolby Atmos mix of the album
I know it's very unlikely but do you think they would do a stereo remix for 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here like they did for Animals?
 
I know it's very unlikely but do you think they would do a stereo remix for 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here like they did for Animals?
Although saying that if they were to do that then TDSOTM would have had a stereo remix for it's 50th as well.
the stereo remix of "Animals" came about because of their dissatisfaction with the original stereo mix, not the case with both "Dark Side" and "Wish You Were Here". I think the only new mix we are likely to get for WYWH is a Dolby Atmos mix.
 
Back
Top