JAY GRAYDON – Airplay For The Planet [Remastered at 96k by Jay Graydon] (2017)

Uber talented LA Session musician JAY GRAYDON has been remastering himself all his back catalog and here we have in exclusive his “Airplay For The Planet” in its 96k sonic re-work plus new artwork. The sound quality is truly excellent.
Featuring on vocals the likes of Joseph Williams (Toto), Bill Champlin, Bill Cantos and the late yet always remembered Sherwood Ball and Warren Wiebe, “Airplay For The Planet” is mandatory for all West Coast AOR fans.

Here’s Graydon liner notes about the remastering process:
“When I first set up Pro Tools about 15 years ago I wanted to transfer all analog tapes to Pro Tools as to preserve. The problem with old analog tapes is they won’t play as they become sticky as the chemicals used to make tape are part petroleum based.
The solution is to have the tapes baked! At that point the tapes will play for about a month. I found all of the analog tapes I could find so after having the tapes baked, I transferred everything into Pro Tools at that time.”

“I typically recorded the transfers at 44.1k but in some cases, I also recorded at 96k. Airplay For The Planet tapes were one of these.
I thought the re-mastering gig would take a few days BUT it ended up taking 6 weeks, since I am a perfectionist.
The concept was to “sculpt” the mastering by automating EQ to make sound as good as possible. I did my best to make the bass sound more “even” as well as bringing up the vocal level on a few songs via EQ, adding some sweet high end frequencies to “open up” some meaning to give it air.
Some guitar solos and lines had a bit too much in the 2.5k area so I rode EQ in those spots.”

“I am just scratching the surface as to describing all of the automated EQ moves I did BUT I must say it was worth the hassle as the album sounds delicious!”.

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01 – Walk the Wire (Joseph Williams)
02 – She Just Can’t Make Up Her Mind (Bill Champlin)
03 – History (Joseph Williams)
04 – After the Love Has Gone (Bill Champlin)
05 – Holdin’ on to Love (Sherwood Ball)
06 – One Way or Another (Sherwood Ball)
07 – Roxann (Warren Wiebe)
08 – Show Me the Magic (Sherwood Ball)
09 – You’re Not Alone (Warren Wiebe)
10 – When You Look in My Eyes (Joseph Williams)
BONUS TRACK:
11 – I Do (Bill Cantos)

Jay Graydon : Guitars, Keyboards & Synths
Joseph Williams : Vocals & Keyboards
Bill Champlin : Vocals & Keyboards
Sherwood Ball : Vocals
Warren Wiebe : Vocals
Bill Cantos : Vocals & Keyboards
Abraham Laboriel, Kenji Sano : Bass
David Foster : Keyboards
Mark Portmann : Keyboards
John Van Tongeren : Synthesizer & Orchestra
Janey Clewer : Keyboards
Brett Raymond : Synthesizer
Bruce Gaitsch : Rhythm Guitars

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