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To: JakeStraw who wrote (2166)	8/21/2003 10:15:19 PM
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Listeners soon will surround themselves with Bob Dylan By Christopher Walsh, Billboard.Com August 21, 2003 rockymountainnews.com NEW YORK - With the Sept. 16 release of 15 classic Bob Dylan albums on the hybrid Super Audio CD format, Columbia/Legacy is initiating an ambitious sonic upgrade of the icon's CD catalog. Five albums in the series also are presented, for the first time, in 5.1-channel surround sound. Like many current SACD titles, the Dylan series comprises dual- layer discs featuring a high-density layer carrying high-resolution, multichannel surround sound, as well as a two-channel stereo SACD version and a standard 16-bit, 44.1kHz layer. While an SACD player is required for playback of the high-resolution, multichannel layer, hybrid discs are forward- and backward-compatible, allowing playback on standard CD players. Titles carrying multichannel mixes are Blonde on Blonde, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Blood on the Tracks, Slow Train Coming and Love and Theft. The series also includes The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Planet Waves, Desire, Street Legal, Infidels and Oh Mercy. The series' release is the culmination of a yearlong process that began with a search for original master tapes, Legacy Recordings senior vice president of talent Steve Berkowitz says. "The catalog was in need of upgrading. The tapes were there to do it with, as were the machines, the humans and the desire. "Because of Dylan's popularity over the years," Berkowitz says, "his catalog was among the first to be converted from record and cassette, from analog to digital, in what we might call the Dark Ages of digital conversion." Berkowitz says the technology has improved greatly since then. "The original productions to CD were brittle and weren't necessarily from the choicest of tapes." Like the recent series of remastered Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke recordings from ABKCO Records, Columbia/Legacy's Dylan series represents a painstaking process using the best-available analog masters. In the case of 5.1-channel remixes, recordings are presented in such a way as to faithfully convey the artist's intent. In the case of Blood on the Tracks, basic tracks for which were cut at A&R Recording in New York, original engineer and A&R owner Phil Ramone created the 5.1-channel mix with A&R alumnus and multichannel pioneer Elliot Scheiner. "I wanted us to sit in front of Bob Dylan from about 25 or 50 feet and hear the room come to life," Ramone says. "A lot of this stuff is in a full circle, because that's the way I set up the room. It's an acoustic environment that you can accomplish in 5.1." "We're not out to change the arrangements or the shading of the music," Berkowitz says. "Every respect and care was taken."