Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 2:37:04 GMT
Hoofy:
Since STeVE gets so many private messages he needed to address it here, over and out Bucko.
I've received many PM's about the subject of half-speed mastering over the past two days. Don't let me spoil your record buying fun, get what you want. I personally do not like hyper-top end sounding records, which many people (especially those who collect Japanese pressings) just love to death. Fine with me.
My issue with this release is simply that the Creedence LP's are not rare at all and all of them, from 1968 up until I guess last year were analog cut. They are for sale everywhere and aren't scarce or hard to find. Buying a set cut from digital to me is just not logical. Who made the initial crucial digital to high rez transfer? It was done here in LA because those Creedence tapes aren't going far from the vault. What analog playback machine did they use? What gear was in the signal chain? And so on.
One thing about the above video featuring Kevin Gray dissing the half-speed cutting system. Kevin has been cutting vinyl since his high school days in 1972. His original cutting of ELO's "Telephone Line" used the "telephone effect" that he personally thought up, recorded and edited in to the analog master during the cutting session with Jeff Lynne standing over him, impressed. Kevin is THE man when it comes to cutting a good, high fidelity record.
And Kevin has never said a bad word about anyone or anything in print. Never. So for him to allow himself to be recorded on video showing his displeasure of the half-speed mastering system speaks volumes as to how he feels about it. He really, really doesn't like what it does to the sound or the ability of your turntable to reproduce it.
If this makes you uneasy because you have a giant MoFi LP collection or something, sorry, but Kevin knows what he is talking about and has let himself be videotaped to spread the word. That, to me, is impressive.
Over and out.
My issue with this release is simply that the Creedence LP's are not rare at all and all of them, from 1968 up until I guess last year were analog cut. They are for sale everywhere and aren't scarce or hard to find. Buying a set cut from digital to me is just not logical. Who made the initial crucial digital to high rez transfer? It was done here in LA because those Creedence tapes aren't going far from the vault. What analog playback machine did they use? What gear was in the signal chain? And so on.
One thing about the above video featuring Kevin Gray dissing the half-speed cutting system. Kevin has been cutting vinyl since his high school days in 1972. His original cutting of ELO's "Telephone Line" used the "telephone effect" that he personally thought up, recorded and edited in to the analog master during the cutting session with Jeff Lynne standing over him, impressed. Kevin is THE man when it comes to cutting a good, high fidelity record.
And Kevin has never said a bad word about anyone or anything in print. Never. So for him to allow himself to be recorded on video showing his displeasure of the half-speed mastering system speaks volumes as to how he feels about it. He really, really doesn't like what it does to the sound or the ability of your turntable to reproduce it.
If this makes you uneasy because you have a giant MoFi LP collection or something, sorry, but Kevin knows what he is talking about and has let himself be videotaped to spread the word. That, to me, is impressive.
Over and out.
Since STeVE gets so many private messages he needed to address it here, over and out Bucko.