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Sony/Legacy Announces Record Store Day Vinyl Bounty

Michael Fremer  |  Mar 22, 2013

Legacy announced a full slate of vinyl for this April 20th's Record Store Day. Titles include newly mastered from the original tapes 180 gram versions of Aerosmith, Get Your Wings and Toys In the Attic, a double 180 gram of Cypress Hill's Black Sunday and three Miles Davis monos: Round About Midnight, Milestones and Someday My Prince Will Come.

Also: Dust's Dust and Hard Attack packaged as a twofer. Dust was a Brooklyn, NY based hard rock trio, whose two albums were originally issued in 1971 and 1972 and have become collector's items. All three members went on to do bigger things.

For Hendrix fans: "Hey Joe/"Stone Free" on a 45rpm 7" single from the 1966 original mono mixes produced for the UK single.

Also Taj Mahal's The Natch'l Blues and a double set of studio demos from his early years packaged as a twofer: The Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal-1969-1973 and (and this is one of the best in a list of bests) Introducing Shuggie Otis an album culled from three of his albums.

Also No Alternative a double 180 collection originally issued in 1993 on CD only as part of the Red Hot Organization's AIDS benefit series. Artists include: Matthew Sweet, Buffalo Tom, Soul Asylum, Pavement, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Mould, Soundgarden, Uncle Tupelo, The Beastie Boys and more!

I will see you at Record Store Day!

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mikerr's picture
Submitted by mikerr on Fri, 2013-03-22 19:00

Love Store Day !   Thanks

Michael T's picture
Submitted by Michael T on Sat, 2013-03-23 18:58

Are Sony LP's still run through digital delay for the cutter head or have they finally done proper mastering with a preview head on the reel to reel machines?

Michael Fremer's picture
Submitted by Michael Fremer on Sun, 2013-03-24 14:39

Where did you hear that Sony's LPs were run through a digital delay line? In any case, Sony doesn't own analog mastering facilities anymore. Everything is done outside at mastering facilities like Sterling Sound and Kevin Gray's Cohearant Studios. They all have preview heads though some of these releases will no doubt be from 96/24 files created using the master tapes.

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Submitted by 1957GoldTop on Sun, 2013-03-24 18:16

Hmm... MoFi is also realeasing a mono version of Milestones at the end of April (confirmed by the MoFi rep on Facebook).  So, which version to get, Legacy or MoFi?

Michael T's picture
Submitted by Michael T on Sun, 2013-03-24 22:35

I think I read that Sony used digital delay in Stereophile magazine back in the late 1990's  Sorry, my information is dated but that is what stuck in my head.  I suppose it wouldn't matter because at the time new releases seemed to be mastered from DAT tapes anyways.  Glad to hear they are outsourcing with reliable mastering houses and engineers.

I noticed one of the record store day releases is Mad Season "Above".  I have the original release.  This was a side project featuring members of Alice In Chains/Pearl Jam/Screaming Trees.  The production was minimal, and it was very well engineered.  The original (even if cut from digital) is extremely impressive sounding.  I am looking forward to hearing the reissue.

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Submitted by mikemoon on Thu, 2013-03-28 06:46

Just curious as to how you know that most lps at the time were being mastered from DAT? I know that many were but a lot of artists were still recording analog and the lps were being mastered from those tapes to lp. In particular, hip-hop lps of this era seem to be the best sounding releases when compared any of their contemporary counterparts. I have a number of these releases that were either mastered by: Kevin Gray, Ray Janos, Bernie Grundman or Herb Powers. The original vinyl release of Outkast Aqemeni is better than 95% of any all analog reissues on the market and I love the latter releases as well. It's actually one of the best sounding lps I've ever heard.

I don't mean to come off confrontational, I'm just trying to learn. What I've stated above is mainly proven by the "ear test" , some research and some facts obtained from interviews, etc. A lot of factual information in regards to this matter is hard to obtatin though.

Cheers!

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Submitted by rosser on Mon, 2013-03-25 14:54

I bought the Miles Ahead mono Legacy reissue recently, on your recommendation. Maybe it's the way the original sounds, but to me it's kind of soft and a bit veiled. I don't have an original to compare it to, but other Miles 6-eye mono originals that I do have sound very crisp and immediate. Not that Miles Ahead is bad, but following it with a 6-eye mono Sketches of Spain did it no favors. 

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Submitted by oregonpapa on Wed, 2013-03-27 17:11

Be sure to buy the Miles "Round About Midnight" album. I have the original and its one of the all time best sounding mono's on the planet. Got mine back in the late seventies in a used record store for fifty-cents. Ah, the days gone by. :>)

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Submitted by alesganda on Fri, 2013-04-26 02:03

How can I possibly have those CD's? Really want them so badly. Anyone?

 

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