Nine Inch Nails is now offering two updated 24bit/96k versions of The Slip--for free, of course--Thanks, Trent!
The two waveforms below show the same 10 seconds of the same track on two different versions of the album:
44.1 kHz 16-bit
Track: 10 Demon Seed
passage: 3 min 50 s - 4 min 00 s
96 kHz 24-bit
Track: 09 The Four of Us are Dying
passage: 3 min 50 s - 4 min 00 s
The original 24/96 wav download had issues with bit-depth, clipping, over-compression, playback speed and track naming. Some guys on the hydrogenaudio forum found the errors, and after word got back the NIN camp, Trent followed up with this post:
Gents-Pretty cool response. It's amazing how fast the whole album came together, including the mastering. Download the new 24/96 wav + flac versions now at theslip.nin.com.
Thanks for the heads up regarding this matter. The corrected files are now posted on our site and if you re-download them they will be the correct ones.
What happened? We mastered this on Friday (5/2) and released it Sunday night. The files went right from mastering to the server without the proper scrutiny (aside from a cursory listen for errors). The last two songs were different because they were redone due to an audible error we did find.
Bottom line: some sort of mastering shenanigans took place.
In addition, there are now 24/96 FLAC files as well as wave files.
BTW, the record was recorded at 24/96 using a Lavry AD122-96MKIII, Antelope's Isochrone OCX clock and mixed in analog through the SSL AWS 900+. We mixed back into Pro Tools through the Lavry as well as a separate rig running at 24/192 using Apogee A/D. The mixes we chose varied song to song based on what sounded best to us.
Trent Reznor
[via nin + Alex B + hydrogenaudio]
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