"Eagles Live" remastered by Ted Jensen - what's the verdict?

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Is it worth upgrading from the original CD release to the Jensen remaster?

Mark Kravitz · 20 Nov 2006

This CD was upgraded???

RoyalScam · 04 Oct 2006

Jensen remastered everything around 1999. I have the album boxed set featuring all of these remasters in the mini-album replicas. Sounds good to me.

Mark Kravitz · 20 Nov 2006

Who is Jensen?

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

if i recall correctly, it was established at the time of their release that the jensen remasters were not much different at all.

renny

RoyalScam · 04 Oct 2006

Mark Kravitz wrote:

Who is Jensen?

Ted Jensen @ Sterling Sound is one of the premier mastering engineers of the last 30 or so years. Read up...

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=TED|JENSEN&sql=11:3jfyxq95ldae~T4

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

RoyalScam wrote:

Jensen remastered everything around 1999. I have the album boxed set featuring all of these remasters in the mini-album replicas. Sounds good to me.

How would you say it compares to the original CD release?

Incidentally, I just found out today that Long Road Out Of Eden is available on vinyl.

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Here's an old (2001) review on Amazon regarding this release...

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I am writing again about Eagles Live in reference to the 1999 Ted Jensen remastered release. My original Eagles Live discs are played out by scratches, so last week I got the only available release-- the one remastered in 1999. I was pleased with the results of remixing, such as the whole first cd not fading out at all in between songs! Nonetheless, I found two bad places in the mix that are mastering defects. I asked people on alt.music.eagles to listen at certain points as well and they all heard the flaws. There is a blip at the end of "New Kid In Town," right around 4:54. Another bad glitch occurs right as Glenn starts talking before "Seven Bridges Road" on the second disc. How could these have been overlooked??? I was also disappointed to see that the album is split into two cds again. The entire album could have fit on one cd, lowering the cost of the album. The cd booklet and album covers are identical to the original 1989 release with the exception of including the month and date of remastering. These flaws are so nasty they need to do a recall or something! Don't let it hinder you from buying this album-- the performances are fantastic. And for a little piece of trivia, the tapes used for Eagles Live were shipped back and forth between Miami and L.A. studios because Glenn wanted to work on his parts away from the rest of the guys in FL with Bill Szymzyck. According to Bill Szymzyck, all of Henley's vocals are from the actual shows--no studio overdubs because of drum mic leakage. Most of the overdubbing involved 3 part harmonies and guitar parts. Hopefully the mastering flaws will be fixed so you can enjoy this album in its entirety...

stevef · 05 Aug 2006

Tricky Kid wrote:

Is it worth upgrading from the original CD release to the Jensen remaster?

It's subjective of course.
A few years back, many on ICE complained that the Ted Jensen remasters displayed very little difference from the original CDs. However, those original Eagles CDs were mastered by Barry Diament. I'm not entirely sure offhand about On The Border and One Of These Nights, but the other Eagles CDs (including the two Greatest Hits volumes) had been confirmed mastered by Barry. The original target CDs of On The Border and One Of These Nights however, sound quite good. I had the remasters and being a fan of Diament's work, I went back and obtained all of the original CDs for comparisons. There had also been a revision (RE-1) on the Eagles discs... I actually have three versions of Desperado. I tend to favor the original Diament CDs and the target discs over the Jensen remasters.
On the best sound on CD for GH and Hotel California, seek out the OOP DCC gold discs for these two titles.

As for the cost of Eagles Live, I imagine the original cost of the 2CD fatboy case was over $20. But over the last year or so, I routinely see this title cheap in Wal-Mart. Virgin Megastores recently had it on sale for about six weeks at $10. Used copies of the original 2CD set can be found in used stores like FYE.

gunner · **Joined:** 02 Jul 2007 **Posts:** 194

Lots of people complain about the Jensen remasters being overly compressed and too loud. Then again, every remaster that has ever been released is going to get that criticism from some quarters. It's funny that this topic came up because I recently bought all of the Jensen remasters except, you guessed it, Eagles Live.

I do seem to recall hearing that the original CD release of the first album was at the wrong speed from the original LP, and that Jensen fixed this. I haven't examined it closely enough.

"Eagles Live" remastered by Ted Jensen - what's the verdict?

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