Скачать или смотреть Freddie Mercury - Let's Turn It On [2025 Restoration]

Months and months removed from the last one, we're finally back with another Queen-related installment of the 2025 Restoration project 😃

Truth be told, I began work on this album well over two years ago, and it's been in a near-complete state ever since then. Fast forward to now, I've finally acquired the final piece of the puzzle needed in order to finish it! Of all things, the missing piece was a more reliable source of 'Stop All The Fighting', via a variation of the 1993 Great Pretender CD single 💪

Like the majority of Queen albums we've covered on the project, Mr. Bad Guy in digital form has always suffered. The original 1985 CD was solid, but came with similar hinderances to the likes of The Works, AKOM and Innuendo CDs. In turn, the early vinyl releases have always been considered the superior way of listening to this album. In this particular instance, I've based the Restoration on the original USA pressing 🙌 Using the original 1985 CD as the base source, it was a breeze to work with! Basically, only the EQ needed adjusting.

I'd go as far as saying it's a night and day difference, and in my opinion, it suggests the 2019 Remix wasn't as warranted as it was made out to be. But I'll leave that up to you to decide 👀

Additionally, the 'Extra Tracks' folder comes loaded with the extended versions which accompanied the original 12" singles. The '2000 Solo Collection' box is our only current digital source for these tracks.

Being 100% honest, I knew the box set had Peter Mew's finger prints all over it before I even looked at the credits 🤷‍ At least around that time period, he had at least three signature mastering techniques, and unfortunately, I could only fully reverse one of them 😢 The two I couldn't do anything about were compression and noise reduction (not all tracks were affected by the latter thankfully). Lucky for us, the obnoxious EQ patterns COULD be undone. For those who aren't aware, he'd always boost the upper bass and upper mids/lower treble areas, leaving the lower mids sucked away of any life.

Before the 2025 Restoration, I was never able to listen to the extended versions all the way through. To my ears at least, they sounded SOOOO bad 😖 But now they're restored, I can listen to them no problem and finally appreciate just how fun some of them are 🤘

The way I reversed those EQ patterns accurately was simple. By measuring the original Mr. Bad Guy CD up against the one Peter Mew remastered for the box set, cancelling out the differences and applying those same changes to the extended versions. From there, I implemented the same adjustments I used on the main album to match the vinyl pressing. Easy as that. No offense to Mr. Mew, but this is how cut and paste his mastering techniques were at the time. In terms of this project, HE was the only real "Bad Guy" 😉 (I'm being tongue-in-cheek obviously, no hard feelings towards the man)...

No comparisons video sadly! It's a struggle to find the time to make one to an acceptable standard at this time. But anyways, hope you enjoy 😁

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Full album YouTube playlist:
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