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rockfenris2005 09:07 am UTC 05/10/11 |
| In reply to: | re: Follow-up re: Bat out of Hell 2 Collector's Edition - Wilbury 08:09 am UTC 05/10/11 |
> Gotcha. > > Well reading back my post I think I wax lyrical a bit on > stuff that most people won't really care about, but in a > nutshell: > > The Collector's Edition is worth getting, as the audio > quality appears on first glance to be superior to > the deluxe (if for no other reason than they've fixed the > track indexing error). > > The only thing the Deluxe edition has over the Collector's > edition is much larger Whelan artwork throughout, printed > at a MUCH better quality. (Which is not to be sneezed at, > I'm sure you'll agree). :o) Absolutely. The artwork, for me, is part of the whole experience of Bat 2. I've heard nothing but bad reviews about the Deluxe edition. The only reason I'd get it now would be to complete the collection. But does the mix from the Collector's Edition sound better than the original? Otherwise, I think I'm going to buy it now. > > > 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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