Knuckledragger

5.9 magnitude quake rocks East Coast. I didn't feel a damn thing here in B'town, but others as far as Boston are reporting noticing it. There are a lot of H-Cers near the epicenter. Everyone's headphones still on their stands?

No Quarter: Barry Diament's CD Mastering: 1990 Boxed Set: 2008 SMH: I don't have the 1993 10CD set, but it is my understanding that it is the same remaster job as the 2008 SMH set. Maybe Dusty can provide us some waveforms for comparison. I haven't done any serious critical listening to the Barry Diament and SMH versions yet. I know the 1990 set like the back of my hand. To me, it has sounded awesome on every piece of audio kit I've owned since 1990.

Kashmir: Barry Diament's CD Mastering: 1990 Boxed Set: 2008 SMH:

Phew. I now have clean digital copies of 3 versions of the Led Zep catalog. I've spent much of the evening banging my head against Adobe's SoundBooth. In spite of the fact that I'm deeply familiar with Photoshop, and Adobe's UI is supposed to be similar between Creative Suite apps, I can officially say I fucking hate SoundBooth. I'm really missing Cool Edit Pro at this point. Now THERE was an app for quick and dirty audio editing and analysis. In spite of Adobe's best efforts, I now have waveforms of three different versions of Achilles Last Stand. Brace yourself form some large images ahead: Achilles Last Stand: Barry Diament's CD Mastering: 1990 Boxed set: 2008 SMH: I'm working on No Quarter and Kashmir. I'm going to have to do this over several posts as it's taking me a bit to process the files. Moar shortly.

WAT.

File under: Snap, Oh.

Wow, some srs vintage blinkenlight porn here.

Man, my Posty-parsing skills have atrophied. I took me longer than I care to admit to figure out what KC and ITCOTKC stood for. Now you've got me thinking. I'm not sure what version I own on CD. I have a 70s gatefold vinyl version which spent most of my college career as a dorm room decoration, but I digress... After much rummaging, I found my 1980s copy of Physical Graffiti, which is mastered by Barry Diament. Supposedly he did all of the original CDs except for the fourth album. I'm basing that assertion off what I've read online. Led Zep liner notes are notoriously sparse. In a bit, I'm going to wake up my wheezy old Wintel, fire up Exact Audio Copy and rip it to FLAC. It will be interesting to compare the waveforms to the 1990 4CD boxed set and possibly the 1993 and 2008 versions as well.

Age of Stupid (2009). Nice, uplifting film.

Chock FULL of cussin' and utterly NSFW.