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rockfenris2005 05:45 am UTC 05/10/11 |
| In reply to: | Follow-up re: Bat out of Hell 2 Collector's Edition - Wilbury 05:34 am UTC 05/10/11 |
| Yeah, Wilbury, this is the one I was talking about. Not the Deluxe. Sorry for the confusion. Haven't read your post yet. Nor have I purchased the CD. > My Collector's Edition of Bat 2 arrived today! Woot. > > So here are a bunch of nerdy observations relating to my > original questions, for anyone who gives a shit: > > • Turns out the audio is NOT the same as the craptacular > Deluxe Edition. It appears to have much better > dynamic range, hasn't had everything turned up to 11 in > the master. I'm listening on a tinny old G4 iMac but I've > checked a few key parts of tracks that used to annoy me on > the deluxe, and it appears better. > > • The track indexing is fixed. Bagpipes are now back at > the end of Louder instead of the beginning of Good Girls. > Yay! > > • I could have sworn that the Deluxe was not just a > reMASTER, but also a reMIX. How else did they fuck it up > so badly? At any rate, this seems better. Guitars are on > top of Synpad again, instead of the other way round as per > the Deluxe Edition. > > • The packaging is AWFUL. I'm being HELLA picky here, > cause I'm a shit-hot graphic designer and I can, but the > attention to detail re: production just AIN'T there > compared to the deluxe edition. The front cover artwork, > and all the internal images (including the photos), are > very clearly scans of a print. They have obviously lost > the original source materials, or deemed it cheaper and > easier to scan a CD cover they picked up from Costco. It > looks terrible, and the larger prints of the whelan > artwork used on the Deluxe edition are absent again. What > annoys me most about that is that the right hand that did > the Collector's didn't bother to check with the left hand > that did the Deluxe. Cause they would still have the > digital versions of all this shit, sitting there ready to > go. Amateurs. > > • Which brings us to Typos. Haven't bothered reading > through it all yet, but the very first thing I see is a > misspelling of Chuck Burgi's name on the inside back cover > of the digipak. So I assume there are more. Fucking > imbeciles. > > And that's that. All in all, I think the perfect Bat2 > package would be the bonus DVD and CD from the > Collector's, in the packaging of the Deluxe… with someone > having bothered to proof the damn thing. > > | |
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