Ray Thomas - From Mighty Oaks

The debut solo album from The Moody Blues flautist and vocalist was the second side project recorded during the band's hiatus after releasing Seventh Sojourn to be recorded at the band's Threshold Studios following Justin Hayward and John Lodge's Blue Jays collaboration and preceding Graeme Edge's Kick Off Your Muddy Boots. As was the case with Blue Jays release, From Mighty Oaks took advantage of the studio's quadraphonic mixing set-up at the time of recording, but unlike the Blue Jays mix which had a limited release on reel-to-reel tape, the mix for this album was not released until a 2011 re-issue. When it was finally released, the quadraphonic mix was only available in lossy Dolby Digital on DVD-Video, and like the SACD (and later DVD-Video) releases of The Moody Blues quadraphonic mixes it was released in 5.1 surround with the addition of derived Centre and LFE channels.

For this conversion I deleted the added Centre and LFE channels to return the album to its intended quadraphonic configuration. Since the source material was lossy to begin with, the DVD-Audio component is a lossless copy of lossy material. Consequently, the DVD-Video (DTS and Dolby Digital) components are lossy re-conversions of that lossy material included to allow me to demonstrate the album in it's original configuration to friends without DVD-Audio capability.
Source: DVD-Video

Converted to: DVD-A MLP 24/48 (from a lossy source), DVD-V DTS 24/48 & Dolby Digital 24/48