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Another great job Steve, I have this on a bootleg and it was always a very muddy sound to it and hard to listen to at times. This sounds very clear. Well done!

And of course I'd love a copy Steve.

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1 hour ago, SuperDave said:

Another great job Steve, I have this on a bootleg and it was always a very muddy sound to it and hard to listen to at times. This sounds very clear. Well done!

And of course I'd love a copy Steve.

Thanks. Hopefully the remaster gives people another reason to listen to this show, because it's a really good performance. Everything from September 1971 is gold.

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Wow.  What a treasure.  Thank you.  The bass is so amazing.  Dig the rarely performed oohs and aahs from Plant during the outro to Immigrant Song.  Funny how Page hits that one clipped chord before Celebration Day without going into the full intro he played at a few other shows.  And is it just me, or is Celebration Day from 1971 just about the most exciting thing they ever did? 

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15 minutes ago, John M said:

  And is it just me, or is Celebration Day from 1971 just about the most exciting thing they ever did? 

Yes. Throughout 1971, the band was playing at a level most other bands didn't even realize was possible. It's what happens when limitless talent meets unlimited imagination, and Celebration Day was the distillation of that combination into compact, concise, and consistently great performances that packaged all of the excitement of the band into five minute hurricanes of sound.

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16 hours ago, SteveZ98 said:

Thanks. Hopefully the remaster gives people another reason to listen to this show, because it's a really good performance. Everything from September 1971 is gold.

Agreed!

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I'm glad people are enjoying the remaster. It's a great performance. If I missed sending a link to anyone who asked for one, please let me know.

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28 minutes ago, SteveZ98 said:

I'm glad people are enjoying the remaster. It's a great performance. If I missed sending a link to anyone who asked for one, please let me know.

Raises hand... :)

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Seems like every Steve remaster has one thing that shines above everything else. Don't get me wrong, every instrument sounds amazing but here, for example, Page's guitar comes through so clear and clean. 

Ya did it again Steve. Wow brother thanks as always. 

Do you do that on purpose Steve or is it more a feel thing? I guess I am asking how do you balance things? Is it to your taste or a general "what would people like?" thing? You know me, I love the shows where JPJ is way high in the mix. But this one, like I said, you can hear every note Page plays so clearly. What a revelation. 

 Much respect my friend. 

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1 hour ago, Ian Smith said:

Seems like every Steve remaster has one thing that shines above everything else. Don't get me wrong, every instrument sounds amazing but here, for example, Page's guitar comes through so clear and clean. 

Ya did it again Steve. Wow brother thanks as always. 

Do you do that on purpose Steve or is it more a feel thing? I guess I am asking how do you balance things? Is it to your taste or a general "what would people like?" thing? You know me, I love the shows where JPJ is way high in the mix. But this one, like I said, you can hear every note Page plays so clearly. What a revelation. 

 Much respect my friend. 

Thanks. I used to intentionally have Jimmy higher in the mix than everyone else because...well, he's Jimmy Page. Recently, I realized the other guys are pretty good, too :) But seriously, I did figure out about a year ago that having all of the instruments evenly balanced made the performances more interesting and exciting. Sounds obvious, but I'm so into Jimmy's playing that it was hard wrap my head around the concept that putting him lower in the mix would actually make his playing easier to appreciate, because you could then hear not just what he played but also how he interacted with Bonzo and JPJ, which to me made his playing even more interesting (and also gave me a new found appreciation for their skills, both individually and as a rhythm section.)

Around that time, I also got some tools that allow me to easily change how prominent each instrument is in a song after they've all been mixed together. That makes it easy to get everything level without having to go back and remix songs to bring out an instrument that was mistakenly buried in the mix. However, the guitar carries so much of the structure of each song it still makes sense to me to have it be easy to follow, even when it's mixed evenly with everything else. Figuring out how to do that is down to feel, although that's just shorthand for saying I spend a lot of time trying out different EQ and other settings to see which ones bring out the guitar while also letting the other instruments shine. It's the main reason it takes me so long to do each remaster, although with the tools I'm using now I can get the results I'm looking for much more quickly than I could in the past.

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Eagerly waiting to here thisnone Steve!  Please send me a link when you can.  Thanks for the attention to detail you provide us all with.

 

ADK-Zeppy

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"because you could then hear not just what he played but also how he interacted with Bonzo and JPJ, which to me made his playing even more interesting (and also gave me a new found appreciation for their skills, both individually and as a rhythm section)."

GREAT explanation Steve, thanks for taking the time to do that. 

Indeed this is a band, in the truest sense of the word. 

And the guy above me who said " Thanks for the attention to detail you provide us all with", I agree with him. 

Cheers Steve

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Steve,

Got the dowload, thank you. Also read a past writeup of the reasons why this 1971 soundboard was so desireable among collectors.

I'd say you picked a good performance to use (based on my reading of the writeup). Even with my own dodgy hearing I could hear JPJ's bass lines and accented harmony notes.  I think it's also a very good example of what Plant could do with his voice, which at times (i.e. Heartbreaker) could compete in his range to Jimmy's Les Paul….. and that powerful voice's luster gone sometime in 1973. 

 

ADK-Zeppy

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