Art Official: AI & De La Soul’s Long-Awaited Digital Release

AudioShake stems helped re-master De La Soul’s first six albums in Dolby Atmos

Earlier this year, De La Soul announced the reissue and digital release of their first six albums. The remasters, which are mixed with Dolby Atmos, were made possible after a year and a half endeavor to clean up “cosmetic issues” and remaster the original mixes for a new, immersive format. Left with just the original stereo master, audio engineer Rich Keller used AudioShake to pull high quality stems of the original De La Soul masters which gave him greater control and precision in mastering these albums.

“I chose AudioShake as the platform to use for AI stemming because of their noise floor and clarity of sound, mostly in the low end where we needed it most. Being classic hip-hop, these were dusty samples… with more shades of gray in the low frequencies to discern. As well as their decreased noise floor when the signal dropped out. That’s something that a lot of other platforms have issues with. When the signal changes, when it goes down, way down at the tail end of a fadeout you’ll hear little clicks and pops as it’s trying to gain up the audio. But [AudioShake] fixed that problem.” — Rich Keller, audio engineer for De La Soul

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