Kudos for reminding me of that quote, though

I listened only to the MP remaster (not this one, but the previous one), and I really didn't think it was that bad, and it did sound different from the original.

I'm surprised lakerhunter came back after leaving in a fit of rage last time, though...

It's really not. It's easily the first thing that comes to mind as far as game music needing remastering, enough that I'm torn if I want to keep it or not.

We all have to agree that he's work is wwonderful.Would luv a parasite eve remastering

No we don't. I haven't listened and I'm not particularly interested, but no one has to agree with your opinion.

Yes, but what this guy does is to simply apply some filters to the material from the audio disc.

Last Ranker suffers from clipping and needs real remastering, which means having access to the original master source. Which this guy clearly doesn't have access to. Case closed.

Maybe he has a friend who's a friend of Uematsu and can get master source that way.

Provided, of course, that Uematsu can get the master source from Yoko Shimomura.

You mean the cassette tape master friend one? Yeah, right...

All that effort I wasted to make that joke and I misrembered the composer. Goddamn

I think Uematsu knows Shimomura, so the joke still works

remastered music is almost always worse. for two main reasons. 1- it sounds more artificial. 2- its more brickwalled and has less dynamic range.

this metroid remaster unfortunately is no exception.

I don't know about that completely.

I have a rip of the cube music on my computer and the volume on the tracks is quite low. I'd check this out, but to be honest there are only about five tracks from the game I'd consider must haves.

Hey guys, could I direct you to my version, which I'm sure isn't full of black magic and snake oil that lakerhunter2 supposedly thinks he has? I assure you this is much better than his lies   I have been trying to find a good copy of this but it seems as there's like 3 by the same guy! Plus on other websites, the only good quality ones don't sound quite HD. Idk, maybe I'm weird.... but he sounds full of it... but I wanted to take a stab at this since the game audio files are really quiet and lo-fi

[soundtrackcentral.com/metroid-prime-2-echoes-ost-hd-remaster-free-flac-download/tp8062]

I mostly snoop the forums but I decided to make an account when I finished my little project 'cause I couldn't find one I really liked

Oi lakehunter2/(whateverthefirstnickwasagain) stop promoting your silly 'remasters'.

???

Honestly, does the term "Copyright Infringement" hold no meaning for self-proclaimed "mastering engineers"? You would think that someone so enmeshed in the field would know just how illegal this sort of tampering is.

How is it illegal if there was no official CD soundtrack for it and I'm making no money on it nor am I saying that I own any part of it? And there are tons of other places with more free downloadable "illegal" - even though its not - soundtracks to many games, how is this any different from those others? Just saying.... Oh and also, I never said I was an engineer of sorts.

It really doesn't matter if a sound track was never produced or not, quite simply put you do not own the rights to the original recording, it is absolutely under no circumstances yours to disseminate and distribute as you wish. You'd really be advised to do your homework on the issue, it really doesn't matter how "good" your intentions are.

As for trying to justify the ripping and revamping of copyrighted material just because "everyone else is doing it" is really such a lame excuse. It's ultimately a very selfish, self-centered and essentially spoiled attitude that really leads people to a sense of entitlement that they think they have the right to do whatever they want with original material. Quite frankly, this mentality should really have no place at all in the mind of anyone who claims to "respect" the original creators.

This really ought to be reported as a DMCA complaint...

No one really takes this seriously dude.  Get off your high horse.  Peoples' original complains with the lakehunter dude and now this random person is the randomness of it, the 0 post out of nowhere posting something for download and the just general "not really sure if this person is some sort of spammer or not".

The problem is that unless you have access to the original source files, this really isn't a remaster anyways, as technically the mastering eq, limiting, etc would already have been applied to the music if it is indeed "ripped" as suggested.  You're just applying more brick wall and squash than is already there, and most likely making things worse.

Why you would think I was that guy is really weird. Jeez, sorry. And just for the fact, the originals had no limiting in the master. And the EQ used was corrective EQ. And it was too dynamic and needed some of the dynamics boosted. I don't think it ruined the music. I'm no professional, but I do know a lot about audio. If I made it worse I wouldn't have uploaded it lol. Listen to my version and tell me that doesn't sound like gold. Hmph!

I'm not some spammer, I just creep around the forums a lot....

That statement there says it all...rein in dynamic contrast by boosting the dynamic contrast and thereby making something that is "too dynamic" what?

"Too, too, dynamic"?

I'm sorry, but either way, what you're distributing still amounts to piracy. I hope it gets treated as such.

And as for High Horses, well, Paladins just gotta love 'em, what can I say?

I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. Let me put it this way - when I run the audio clips through my corrective EQ process, the dynamics of the instruments make the process slightly distort and clip. Basically how it works is that it scans the frequency response of the entire file, and adjusts it so the frequency response on the graph is almost, if not exactly ruler-flat. The perfect master EQ! If I barely reduced the dynamics with Breakaway, I can run them through the program and it corrects the frequency of the file to a ruler flat sound WITHOUT distortion and nastynesss . You really need to learn how to control yourself and abusing the "system" with your venomous personality. Have a good day, and I hope you step on a Lego. Oh, don't try and file a complaint for that too! Ha! And also remember that once Saul was on his high horse till Jesus struck him down. Watch out buddy! Not saying that Jesus will hate you cause he really wont lol, but bad things happen to people who ride their high horses too long lol