I feel grumpy today, but am making progress. Once it's all said and done there's going to be an awful lot of options, like a 10-string guitar with about 60 frets. You know, with the differences based on the thickness and tension of the strings. As you can imagine, this is slightly more difficult than playing a six string.
The Rush remasters were slightly louder and that automatically makes them superior because of the greater detail the waveforms represent. The EQ was so close that there isn't anything to discuess there, the instruments were slightly cleaner this time around, but everything sounds the same. I didn't hesitate to delete the old versions. If I had to venture a guess, the digitization process was almost certainly handled better because these all seem to be devoid of weird tricks that were used to make digital less "harsh" sounding. I think the old ones were dithered under past assumptions that basically made for a worse sound.
Rush fans are generally crazy. I have found scant evidence of ANY of their albums have remarkable different sound quality or tone other than other people's insistance on various pressings having this or that. They are all very close, even the audiophile stuff is basically the same. So all in all, ]superficially the same, technically better.
The one thing that is different is there are additional keyboards in Hold Your Fire that are VERY understated but clearly audible that improve those songs by quite a bit. All those flourishes Power Windows were famous for. I don't even wanna hear the old stuff. It sound bare bones. After one listen of the new "Mission" the old one sounded like horseshit and I missed the extra parts. Somebody grew some balls and decided to make a real classic even better.
