"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Arny Krueger
wrote:
Compared to modern GUI tools, SOX's command line UI is pretty daunting
from an ease-of-use standpoint. Tools like Cooledit have been
publicly released and widely used for about 17 years.. If open source
floats your boat, Audacity would seem to be a massive step forward
from SOX, especially if you add one of the zillions of plug-in
equalizers.

Think the problem is Jim won't use anything that doesn't run on linux.

Well I think the 'problem' is misunderstanding what I have in mind. :-)

FWIW I think programs like Audacity work OK on Linux. And I think I have
experimented with it in the past. However my interest is in being able
initially to experiment, but then to have the ability to 'batch process'
files when needed with presets I have chosen.

Remastering has generally been thought as being a per-album or per-track
operation.

But the start question was to see if others thought there was anything
like
an 'EMI sound' *for the CDs they have released* in terms of the spectral
balance being different to the original LP releases.

I can't speak for the recording processes used by every label, but in the
U.S. it was very clear to me as a listener that at least Motown, RCA and
Columbia had a "house sound" that they mastered their recordings to match.