DT12 available on HD Tracks!

[YtseJamittaja]

Octavarium is my favourite sounding album of theirs.

And I thought BC&SL sounded nicer than SC.

But yeah - ADTOE sounded really demoey for some reason.

8V sounds heavy when it has to and mellow when it has to. ADTOE for example don't have so much differences between heavy and mellow. The mix isn't warm enough in my opinion.

[slycordinator]

While I like the HDTracks version because it's less compressed, I keep coming back to the CD version. It's more in your face (and louder while I'm driving).

My car came with volume control on the stereo...

[ariich]

I've had to delete a few posts, and issue a warning.

May I remind people that asking for illegal torrents of pirated material is strictly against the rules.

[sylvinception]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

[Prog Snob]

HMMM

[sylvinception]

Hey there's one of them!!

[efx]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

What on earth are you talking about here?

[Prog Snob]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

What on earth are you talking about here?

I think he hit his head.

[Perpetual Change]

Ariich is an American???

Ariich, stop making us look bad!

[Implode]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

It can sound a bit like the secret police and such, but the reason discussion of illegal acquisition of DT material is against the rules is that this place is the most public DT site out there. It's more influential than the official DT forums. We want to have a good image in respect for the band. Showing where or saying that it's okay to illegally download their music doesn't really help that.

[Perpetual Change]

I feel for the French guy. I really do. When I was in HK, there were NO legal avenues to buy digital music. It was one of those things where the big MP3 stores didn't feel like paying for the licenses to reach such a tiny population, so to support the artist you had import physical records.

That said, however you go about getting it, one can't expect a site based in the US to stomach the burdern of potentially getting sued for hosting illicit material, even if it may not be illicit for everyone in every country.  That is just unreasonable.

[hefdaddy42]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

Hey, there is no reason that you HAVE to keep posting here, you know.

But as long as you do, please follow the rules.

[ariich]

Ariich is an American???

Ariich, stop making us look bad!

News to me.

[Sourcegamer101]

I'm no audiophile, but other than 5.1, the only audible difference I heard is the drums are more defined and 'upfront', and the vocals are a bit louder. It visually looked different when loaded the non-hd version in with the HD version in Audacity. Nothing special or significant IMO.

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

fight the power

[Prog Snob]

It's funny I see you also have deleted the message where I say I live in France and so that I can't buy the HD tracks.

You're pathetic man, I feel sorry for you - even if you respect the rules.

Oh and I see there's also a lot of "informers" here.
America, the land of freedom...

Yes we have freedom here, but torrent sites are illegal the last I checked so I'm not sure what the problem is.

[dparrott]

Sucks that these HD tracks are not able to purchase individually like the lesser quality songs are.

[dparrott]

I noticed that converting to 16/44 adds some artifacts, like in the piano part of the IT ending.

[BlobVanDam]

I noticed that converting to 16/44 adds some artifacts, like in the piano part of the IT ending.

It shouldn't add any artifacts if properly down-converted. What kind of artifacts are you hearing?

[ariich]

I seem to be getting that as well, a sort of vibrating twanging noise during the Easter Egg. That's literally the only place on the entire album that I'm hearing any unusual artifacts.

[BlobVanDam]

I seem to be getting that as well, a sort of vibrating twanging noise during the Easter Egg. That's literally the only place on the entire album that I'm hearing any unusual artifacts.

Have you listened back to the original for comparison? The easter egg actually does have some twanging there from the background instrument JR is playing behind the piano (can't remember the name of it).
I definitely hear a twangy noise on the full HD copy.

[Grizz]

Is he finally playing a harpejji?

[BlobVanDam]

Is he finally playing a harpejji?

I just Googled it, and the easter egg is piano, guitar, and the Seaboard, an even newer gadget.

[Zydar]

Is he finally playing a harpejji?

I just Googled it, and the easter egg is piano, guitar, and the Seaboard, an even newer gadget.

Plus the newest gadget, the GeeWiz

[The Letter M]

Is he finally playing a harpejji?

I just Googled it, and the easter egg is piano, guitar, and the Seaboard, an even newer gadget.

Here's a video from back in March earlier this year (when DT were in the studio) of JR  playing the SeaBoard. He even mentions bringing it into the studio and then on the road for the next DT tour. Check it out! He goes in depth and plays with the instrument!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKk3BtfTzG8

-Marc.

[ariich]

I seem to be getting that as well, a sort of vibrating twanging noise during the Easter Egg. That's literally the only place on the entire album that I'm hearing any unusual artifacts.

Have you listened back to the original for comparison? The easter egg actually does have some twanging there from the background instrument JR is playing behind the piano (can't remember the name of it).
I definitely hear a twangy noise on the full HD copy.

Good question. I have heard the full HD copy a couple of times and didn't notice it then, but haven't done a side by side with the mp3s I have on my iPod. I'll give that a try when I get home this evening!

[dparrott]

The artifacts sound like noise when the piano plays the chords.  On the HD version it's very clear.

[ariich]

Hmm, weird, the HD version sounds very clear for me too, and when I play my mp3s on my computer in Winamp, that basically sounds fine as well. So it's only on my iPod that I'm hearing a really loud twanging noise.

Bloody Apple ruining everything as always!

[dparrott]

I converted the flac's to 16/44 wavs in winamp and I'm hearing the noise.  Maybe it's the converter's fault?  I can try another converter.

[The Fatal Tragedy]

I converted the flac's to 16/44 wavs in winamp and I'm hearing the noise.  Maybe it's the converter's fault?  I can try another converter.

Convert the flacs using the program, "Audacity." open one of the HD tracks and double-click anywhere on the waveform to highlight the entire track. On the toolbar click "Tracks" and then click "Resample..." At the opened dialog box, click the dropdown arrow and select "44100" and click "OK." Then, near the lower left-hand corner of the program where it reads "Project Rate (Hz):," click the dropdown arrow and select "44100." After this, click "File" on the toolbar and click "Export..." At the dialog box, click the dropdown arrow where it reads "Save as type:" and select "WAV (Microsoft) signed 16 bit PCM." Then click "save." At the next dialog box click "OK"

[dparrott]

Cool, thanks, that worked.

[sylvinception]

Hey guys, finally had it!!

I clearly hear more details for bass, keys and guitar, but the drums's sound is still disappointing to me (not powerfull enough)...

Do you have the same feeling

[Ben_Jamin]

I don't mind the drum sound at all. But the clarity in which the other instruments breathe is what I cared for anyways.

[Sacul]

Have someone listened to the HDTracks version of BC&SL?

[Onno]

I just listened to the DT12 samples on the HD Tracks website, those sound astoundingly good. Sacul: maybe you can try the BC&SL samples? That should probably give you a good idea of how it sounds.