*a thir13en Remaster*


The "album" version, lovingly declicked and mischievously tinkered, bleeding loud 'n rocking proud.

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Each nasty snap, crackle and pop was sought, targeted and eliminated by hand. At difficult spots, a second process involving automated plug-in thresholds helped to further control the wave-form anamolies.

Why do it by hand rather than a "cleaning" plug-in? Because although the count of pops was easily near or just over a hundred, all totaled those noises add up to less than 1 second of actual audio. Processing everything would cut off natural peaks of the drums, vocal stabs and guitar attacks, causing possible "stuttering" among other unwanted nuances. This way those stay pure. 

The secondary process was used on about 10% of the pops, where the hand-pasted fix didn't work or needed more help. It involves strapping the Waves X-Click plug-in to the master output, then setting the de-click threshold to kick in precisely at the bad pop spots. It safely kills anything left.

On a few occaisions, the pops were generated by thumps in the recording. The pops are gone, but the thumps remain. I don't recall exactly all of them, but there's at least 3 obivous spots where this occurs.
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The mischief begins with some light de-hiss, sound-printed from the surface noise. Then EQ tweaks and channel balancing (Waves ReQ), the mastering compression (Waves R-comp), the low-end warmth and detail of the BBE, and the finishing touches with the Waves L3. It's slammin'. Hard.
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Sources used were the single file whole-sides. No edits (except for the 46 seconds of nothing on the front end of side 1, and 20 some seconds of nothing at the end of side 2).

Splits were made at what seemed the most reasonable point pertaining to each song.


Rock out, peace on,

-M






Fall 1992 - Chicago Studio [?] 

Disc 1:

01. Quiet 
02. Hello Kitty Kat (Kitty Kat) 
03. Cherub Rock 
04. Geek U.S.A. (Suicide Kiss) 
05. Today 
06. Disarm 
07. Rocket 
08. Spaceboy 
09. Set the Ray to Jerry 
10. Soma 

Disc 2:

01. Whir (Whirl) 
02. Meladori Magpie (Doorstep) 
03. Pissant 
04. Tulips 
05. Blew Away 
06. French Movie Theme 
07. Hummer 
08. Frail and Bedazzled 
09. Glynis 
10. She Says 
11. Sweet Sweet 
12. Mayonaise 

This session resulted in a tape of Siamese Dream demos submitted to Virgin Records in 1992, called: "Quiet and Other Songs: A Collection of Songs for Album II." 
Doorstep is an early version of Meladori Magpie and featured a full-band arrangement. 
Suicide Kiss evolved into Geek USA. 
Hello Kitty Kat was at this time simply titled Kitty Kat. 
Set the Ray to Jerry is an early version of the song, full band electric, with a faster tempo and more aggresive sound.