What is your opinion of the Time Out of Mind remix? RollingStone writes Michael Brauer was tasked with taking a beloved, Grammy Award-winning album.He went into the project knowing little about the creation of the album, so he was stunned when he pulled up the tracks and realized that 12 musicians were playing at once, creating a wild cacophony. Lanois had decided which parts to keep, and which to discard, during the mixing process.“Normally I just pull up the tracks and I mix, and all the ingredients are there, and I don’t have to think about arranging or re-arranging,” Brauer says. “In this case, I had to go through every section, instrument by instrument, and decide what I liked, and what I didn’t like. Once I did that, I’d go back and forth against the final mix and see what Lanois had done and kept, and see if it was how I’d done it or not. It was a very, very long process.”Brauer wanted to restore much of Dylan’s original vocal, while still staying true to the signature sound of Time Out of Mind. Luckily, Dylan’s master vocals had been recorded separately by Lanois, and preserved. “That meant I had control over how dry or how wet I wanted to make the vocal, which was great,” says Brauer. “Otherwise I would have had no flexibility, and there were many times they wanted more natural voice without as much amp sound.”
Any thoughts about the remix? I think it is better than the original Much more detailed with more instrumentation and Dylan is easier to understand. The elimination of what Dylan did not like about the album, the Lanois swamp sound. To me just an overall improvement that almost sounds like an new album.
Any thoughts about the remix? I think it is better than the original Much more detailed with more instrumentation and Dylan is easier to understand. The elimination of what Dylan did not like about the album, the Lanois swamp sound. To me just an overall improvement that almost sounds like an new album.