[SurroundSound] Re: Beatles "Rockband" mogg files!

Paul,

I know you've done these in the past, and have had fun with them.
I've not heard anything you've done, to be honest with you. To call
these "fantastic," though........really, there's very little
"fantastic" here. RB stems offer you, at most, five different tracks
to play with. They are not of good sound quality, at least from what
I've heard, whatsoever, and contain remnants of other instrumentation
that is sometimes far, far greater than isolations I could come up
with using SPEC, especially on some of these early albums that have so
much material panned hard right and left. These aren't multitracks to
say the least.

In the hands of someone with a bit of time on their hands, sure, you
can edit these down and create other tracks to utilize, but I've found
that there's really only so much you can do with them. At times, they
barely give you enough to do more than throw the vocal in the center,
the drum mono in both fronts, and whatever other instrument there is
in the rears. There's only so much stereo imaging you can add to that
to create something even somewhat interesting.

I'm going to assume that "far better that any of the DTS mixes" means
you've heard all of them? My bet is that you haven't. I can't even
say I've heard every single mix probably ever done, and I've listened
to a whole lot of stereo-to-surround in my day. Perhaps you can do
something better than the old TOUP mix, but I can tell you there's a
mix out there about a week old, done from SPEC, which was extremely
well done.

Again, I'm glad you've had fun with them, and have nothing against
others seeing what they can do with them, but let's call these things
what they are, and that's imperfect stems streamed from a video game.

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