King Creole to be released on Hybrid SACD

No release date yet.

What is 'Hybrid SACD' . . . and who's the guy on the right of the picture ?

who's the guy on the right of the picture ?

Robert De Niro...

And take a look at the picture Carolyn Jones is "holding."

Tell us more. Official or what?

No more info at this point. It was annonced on the Facebook page of Audio Fidelity and will probably be released within the next few months.

http://www.audiofidelity.net/content/el ... ing-creole

It's been remastered by Steve Hoffman, or so I've been told...

Whats the point of this ! we need it on blu-ray.what a croc !!!

who's the guy on the right of the picture ?

Robert De Niro...

And take a look at the picture Carolyn Jones is "holding."

What the??? Don't get the pic lol

It's been remastered by Steve Hoffman, or so I've been told...

The link says "Mastered for this SACD by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio".

who's the guy on the right of the picture ?

Robert De Niro...

And take a look at the picture Carolyn Jones is "holding."

Isn't that pic from late 1959 or early 1960? I getcha, it was photoshopped.

Just read this on a audiofile forum.....


Coming in January 2013....

Elvis - Stereo 57 (Essential Elvis Vol. 2) (http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/85858 ... ybrid_SACD)

Just read this on a audiofile forum.....


Coming in January 2013....

Elvis - Stereo 57 (Essential Elvis Vol. 2) (http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/85858 ... ybrid_SACD)

Hmm. I wonder what the source is for the audio on this. Boppin' Bob made his own digital transfers of the tapes for Essential 2, and this was the 80s. They would not be in a digital format worth issuing on SACD. The only way this would work would be if someone is recompiling the release from scratch, from the session tapes.

I am thinking the same.

I do not believe for one minute that King Creole mastered by Kevin Gray will sound better than the Vic Anesini masters on the big Complete Masters box set. Irrespective of the medium SACD. Kevin Gray would never be given the original analogue master tapes for this release.

Vic worked direct with the analogue tapes. Kevin will at best be given an analogue dub or digital files.

I do not believe for one minute that King Creole mastered by Kevin Gray will sound better than the Vic Anesini masters on the big Complete Masters box set. Irrespective of the medium SACD. Kevin Gray would never be given the original analogue master tapes for this release.

Vic worked direct with the analogue tapes. Kevin will at best be given an analogue dub or digital files.

Please elaborate, do you have inside knowledge?

I do not believe for one minute that King Creole mastered by Kevin Gray will sound better than the Vic Anesini masters on the big Complete Masters box set. Irrespective of the medium SACD. Kevin Gray would never be given the original analogue master tapes for this release.

Vic worked direct with the analogue tapes. Kevin will at best be given an analogue dub or digital files.

Please elaborate, do you have inside knowledge?

It is a documented fact that Vic used the best original analogue tapes for his masterings.
Do you honestly think Sony will ship the best original analogue tapes to Kevin Gray? If I was Sony, I wouldn't? Would you, for a small label licensing deal?
No inside knowledge needed. Audio Fidelity stopped claiming their releases were from the original master tapes a few years ago.

It's been remastered by Steve Hoffman, or so I've been told...

Is that good or bad? And does this mean these songs / tapes have been 'remastered' for the 5th time?? (Complete 50's masters / King Creole the music FTD etc etc)>

It's been remastered by Steve Hoffman, or so I've been told...

Is that good or bad? And does this mean these songs / tapes have been 'remastered' for the 5th time?? (Complete 50's masters / King Creole the music FTD etc etc)>

It's being remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio.

http://www.audiofidelity.net/content/el ... ing-creole

I would assume that in the course of the catalogue transfer project which started in 2007 the tapes were transferred flat to a high resolution digital format for archiving purposes and that Vic Anesini worked from the digital files. Such files are now used by anyone who issues an Elvis CD, SACD or (digitally sourced) vinyl record (i.e. the MOV or Friday Music pressings or the recent Sony/Legacy vinyl reissue of MSG).

This is just a guess, though.

Here is an excerpt of an interview with Vic from Mix magazine Dec 12, 2011:

When the scope of a new project was defined, Jorgenson e-mailed Anesini a list of masters to retrieve from RCA’s archives, which are stored in a massive—and massively organized—vault in Boynton, Penn. “It’s a climate-controlled facility where the tapes sit on shelves and everything is bar-coded,” Anesini explains. “It’s amazing how much this system has evolved. When I started in 1988, it was like, ‘Just bring in everything we have and we’ll see if we can find what we need.’ Now everything has been cataloged. Tape archivists brought down all the tapes one box at a time; [they] documented every song, artist and tape format, put a bar code on every tape, so now I can search a massive database and if I need Elvis Presley 'Hound Dog'—presto—I can see the bar code number, the reel, and I can have it in my room the next day.”

Anesini goes all the way back to the original tapes for every music track he remasters. “This is all the quarter-inch masters,” he says. “Some might be 15 ips, some 30 ips, but this is all the original full-track mono tape.”

His mastering studio is situated in the former Record Plant facility on West 44th Street in New York, now called Battery Studios. The facility has passed through a couple of different owners during the years, but these Walters-Storyk–redesigned rooms have been in continuous operation since the Record Plant opened in the late 1960s in what was Studio C on the building’s 10th floor.

Comes out in a month: http://www.amazon.com/King-Creole-Elvis ... Elvis+sacd
Anyone know If it's 5.1 surround?

I'm hopeful for an FTD release of Elvis' finest soundtrack, so I'll holdout for that instead...

Comes out in a month: http://www.amazon.com/King-Creole-Elvis ... Elvis+sacd
Anyone know If it's 5.1 surround?

Question: How can a mono recording be in 5.1 surround?

I'm hopeful for an FTD release of Elvis' finest soundtrack, so I'll holdout for that instead...

Thay have done this already, with a book and bonus tracks.

Comes out in a month: http://www.amazon.com/King-Creole-Elvis ... Elvis+sacd
Anyone know If it's 5.1 surround?

Question: How can a mono recording be in 5.1 surround?

By being "electronically reprocessed".. It never truly goes away!