Luckily, a friend mine who owns a copy of original 1987 CD release of All Things Must Pass ripped a lossless copy for me. At the first listen, I was astonished not by its wide dynamic range but how low in volume is was pressed. I have to add around 10db gain to match 2001 Remasters, some songs need more.When the volumes are adjusted to a normal level, I found the sound while dynamic, is so dull that it lacks both high and low ends and in general lifeless.
That's when I finally decided to to use 1987 versions as the base to remix/remaster. Apart from fixing the problems I mentioned, I also made the bass and drums sound more punchier. Additional steps are taken to compress, for I've found a particular way to maximized the songs' subtle, powerful energies while retaining Phil Spector's wall-of-sound atomsphere and not spoiling sound quality.
After all songs are remastered, I took a further step to look for an alternative take of I Live For You, which is free of later overdubs and re-recordings, to add it to the collection as a special bonus.
When the work is all done, I am not quite as confident as now to post it. At first I thought some of my treatments were somewhat radical (especially the compression) and people may dislike them. But when I found that during my absence in the forum, people actually tried to track me down in the vast Internet to listen to my works, I am deeply touched. Some found the lossy preview of the whole remastered album on NetEase Music website and PM'ed me that my remasters are excellent. It truly gives me courage to post the remasters.
So here are my months of effort and blood and tears, I hope you all will like it!
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