Dave Matthews Band
The Lillywhite Sessions
(karmageddon remaster)

Released: 2002
Label: Karmageddon Productions
Type: CD-R
Country Of Origin: Canada
Catalogue #: n/a

ripping info:
Secure Test & Copy with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
LOG & Non-Compliant CUE included

tracklisting:
01 - Busted Stuff
02 - Grey Street
03 - Diggin' A Ditch
04 - Sweet Up And Down
05 - JTR
06 - Big Eyed Fish
07 - Grace Is Gone
08 - Captain
09 - Bartender
10 - Monkey Man
11 - Kit Kat Jam
12 - Raven

My review
Well I was never a fan of DMB in the first place. 
Back in 2002 an online friend asked me to take a 
whirl at putting the "final" touches on the original 
LEAKED DAT source for his own personal collection, as
he was very pleased with my other professional 
mastering work. We worked out a deal and I took 
the ORIGINAL SHN files (that I had downloaded 
the year before) to a very nice (now out of business) 
mastering studio I had contract work with.
The files were burnt to a CD-R first and foremost 
then ran through, one track at a time, through thousands
of dollars worth of ANALOG gear, such as a White 1/3 
Octave Parametric EQ, Apogee A/D-D/A Converters (sorry 
they were 16bit and 44.1kHz no upsampling here) and a 
Manley tube compressor set at a very low ratio. Also went
through some image balancing (in other words each channel
was tweeked by ear to sound in perfect stereo with the vocal
and snare and kick perfectly aligned up the front & 
centre). All files were burned at 2x to a Tayio Yuden 
CD-R using CD Architect. There were some minor fades 
applied to all trax as well as pro dithering and 
quantiziation noise.
In english...it is as good a professional copy as you 
will find. Not to toot my own horn... but I have yet 
to hear another "master/remaster" of this title that
sounds this good.

In comparison to the other remasters out there: This one is
slightly quieter, BUT this works very well. It creates way
more dynamic range. If you look at the WAVs themselves,
you can see they are limited but the meat and potatoes 
of the song has plenty of room to breathe. I can hear no 
distortion caused by the minor limiting that was done. The 
limiting that was performed, as well as the fades and dithering
& quantization, were the ONLY digital steps done on the computer 
before final burn.

As well: this CD was never mastered in the first place, so the point 
in calling it a remaster is actually false. but this way it remains 
in the trading circles properly labelled in connection with the other 
"masters/remasters" of this title.

Note on the actual music: Again I was never a big fan of DMB, 
but working on this CD and being a fan of Steve Lillywhite's 
previous work and just coming out of a 6 year realtionship and 
being drunk half the time - I got hooked. It is the only album 
I enjoy of theirs and was not terribly impressed with the actual
 release Busted Stuff. Thought that one sounded sterile.

Anyways, I am sure there are lots of you who will grab this.
 Please leave comments (good & bad) about the sound and quality. 
I am curious to know...

ENJOY! 



Karmageddon
04.18.06