**Remastered** by thir13en


Smashing Pumpkins
Reel Time Sessions



I've done parts here and there, but I've heard many requests for the whole thing. Now it's fresh!

Some of these were really nice recordings and decent versions of some cool tunes. The mixes are rough and probably thrown together in a rather efficient (translation: money saving) procedure. Balance was an issue on nearly every song, and each one was predictable to be either heavy left or heavy right. And many songs had huge leaps in disparity between certain instruments and ultimate peak levels.

But what was interesting was to see how they reacted to the mastering process. In A-B comps, the midrange, or real meat of the guitars just jumped out on the remaster. So much so that I would often go through my settings to see if anything was adding that in an overzealous artifical manner. I found nothing really, as I hardly boosted the mid's at all. It's just that when I did the basic mastering compression and maximization, that's what wanted to really jump out, and my ears just loved it. Made quite a difference in the power and emotion of many of the songs.

As tempting as it was to edit out the giggling, the banter, the noisy intro-outro of songs, etc, I decided to leave it alone, but that was after I had already given "Fat Man Blues (abandoned)" it's own track, so that edit remains an anomaly to this version.




01. Egg
02. Bury Me
03. Bye June
04. Cinamon Girl
05. C'mon
06. Daughter
07. Daughter (extended)
08. Daydream
09. East (alt)
10. Honey Spider
11. Honey Spider (alt)
12. Honey Spider (alt lite)
13. I am One
14. Love
15. Not Worth Asking
16. Psychodelic
17. Rhinoceros
18. Rhinoceros (alt)
19. Snap
20. Stars Fall In
21. With You
22. Waiting for you Now
23. Fat Man Blues (abandoned)
24 Fat Man Blues (1st Half)
25. Fat Man Blues (2nd half)
26. Bleed (2 false starts)
27. She (2 false starts)
28. Vanilla
29. My Dahlia (2 teases)
30. Waiting
31. Sun
32. Stray Cat Blues
33. I Am One Pt.II
34. My Dahlia ('88)
35. Sun ('88)