Linkin Park "Studio Collection" / Deluxe Editions

[martinez]

So 2012 version of WFTE has:

 - different effects on vocals and guitar loop at the beginning

 

2012 Iridescent:

- a bit different effects on Mike's vocals at the beginning (2012 version vs 2010 version)

[martinez]

June 2025 update. Stuff that still needs a fix:

 

Waiting For The End:

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The song contains different effects used on vocals. A different delay effect can be heard when you compare below two fragments:

 

2010-album version
2012 album version

Another example with even more noticeable difference is at the end when Chester sings the last word "got!":

 

2010-album version
2012 album version
 
Also, there might be something else which I'm not sure about it. I extracted the acapella from both versions and I want you to compare and let know what you think about it. Here are two fragments of the acapella:

 

WFTE (acapella)-2010 album version
WFTE (acapella)-2012 album version

 

When Chester sings "Flying at the speed of light" - it's about the last word "light" it sounds a bit different.

 

The guitar loop at the beginning also has different effects:

2010-album version
2012-album version

 

Shadow Of The Day:

On 11/12/2021 at 9:34 AM, Astat said:

Shadow of the Day: Guitar that enters in the first chorus (absent from the previous "wrong" mix) is a different take, the tone is completely different and there are no sliding noises between the notes like there are on the original CD version. I'm not totally convinced it isn't a VST guitar sim replacing the original track. Other differences seem to be fixed.

 

*Edit* Haha, wow, this is 100% a re-recorded guitar part, it even plays a wrong note. On the "and the shadow of the day" lines in the choruses, it's supposed to follow the bass and go down to a G instead of going up to a D like it does on every other time through the progression, but it goes up to a D in that spot on this recording. I bet Mike re-recorded this recently because they couldn't find the original guitar track for whatever reason.

[LPLStaff]

I shared this with them before the LP comeback, @martinez - have you sent this to Adam? Happy to nudge it if you need me to.

[martinez]

14 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

I shared this with them before the LP comeback, @martinez - have you sent this to Adam? Happy to nudge it if you need me to.

 

Will be sending both and some others later today or tomorrow. I'm finishing writing it, it's gonna be pretty much detailed, I'm even suggesting where they can look for the masters to some of those, which they can use and fix it. But I have to admit that from the list that was sent 3 weeks ago and from other stuff that was sent earlier, nothing was fixed. Even the little things, like for example - Meteora20 on iTunes/Apple Music it has a title "Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition)" while on all other platforms is listed as "Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition" without the "()". Comparing of how fast they fixed the title for CC with less than week, some of those supposed to be already fixed.

[LPLStaff]

Think it just has to do with how busy their team and label are right now - the UEFA game into the Europe tour time period has been insanely busy for them. They'll definitely get to it. Thanks for compiling all of that and sending it.