Bringing Forth The Original Fidelity

Peter Holsapple of The dB's

Cris Cohen: This isn't just a re-release (of the album Stands For Decibels). It's a remaster. What specific aspects of the sound were you looking to improve with the remastering of this album?

Peter Holsapple of The dB's: I think on the first record in particular, there was a certain element of brightness. You can listen to a lot of records from 1981, and they really seem timestamped from the production. I don't necessarily think ours does, except that it was really shiny. And we wanted to kind of make it sound more listenable in 2024.

And so the person that did the mastering did a good job and brought forth a lot more of the fidelity of what we heard it going down as, as opposed to what might have ended up in the grooves of the original Albion record.