©1974 KISS Catalog, Ltd./UMG
℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records
Newly XDR* remastered album.
*Xtended Dynamic Range
01 - Got To Choose [00:00:00] 02 - Parasite [00:03:53] 03 - Goin' Blind [00:06:56] 04 - Hotter Than Hell [00:10:33] 05 - Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll [00:14:03] 06 - All The Way [00:16:20] 07 - Watchin' You [00:19:37] 08 - Mainline [00:23:23] 09 - Comin' Home [00:27:13] 10 - Strange Ways [00:29:51]
So, I've always loved "Hotter Than Hell". In fact it's in my top 5 KISS albums and it's not No. 5!
But, as I heard many, many of us complain, I too did have a slight
problem with the way it has always sounded, in various degrees, and this
is that it's horribly distorted. I've always connected the sound of the
album with an image of over-heating amps and the rattling of metal,
everything that was in the studio while it was recorded and everything
of metal did ring and buzz, and was recorded with the instruments. Not
good.
So, in an attempt to get rid of all that I deconstructed the best high
resolution sound image I had and make it as wide and dynamic as possible
with a reversed compression technique (sonic decompression). Then I
filtered as delicately as possible quite some excessive noise and EQ'd
it so that the good distortion is there, as raw as it should be, and
most of the nasty distortion on guitars and snare mostly would be gone.
And I added some low end, because it is a kind of thin, squashed
production to begin with. And, as the final touch I mastered it to my
optimum headroom benchmark, DR12.
I'm totally happy with the results, and wanted to share it with you, the
KISS fan that is here for a reason, otherwise you would not have read
this all, right?!
Enjoy!
Turn Me Up!™
To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this album is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)
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