affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and Do you expect much improvement over the Classic Records stereo 45 release from the 90s? To be fair, some are done better than others (I say this only having listened through speakers - I don't want to think about what the . I was thinking about the 2x180g version by classic records, can anyone comment about the sound and QC on that one ? Gripsweat - HORACE SILVER TOKYO BLUES AUDIOPHILE 45RPM SPEED 180 GRAM kind of blue mono or stereo hoffman Mono & Stereo 2022: INTERVIEW WITH STEVE HOFFMAN And remember: with limited tracks available in the early days of multitrack recorders, groups would record and fill all four tracks then mix those down to one track. I even threw in the 90's SBM cd for the hell of it. A must have! The two stereo tapes were stored safely in a vault for over three decades before anyone thought of taking them out for remastering. Whilst metal was strictly process controlled, it seems there was much greater latitude in printing, with different fonts and discretionary compositing decisions e.g. In preparation for the commercial release, Columbia engineers cut at least 27 identical lacquers from the first master tape mix, one set mono, the other stereo. "Scarborough Fair" sounds better in mono, but the rest of the "PSRT" album is killer in stereo. At least that's my understanding of how it worked. Kind of Blue, an Album by Miles Davis. Have you read Fremer's review? He is loved and well know by audiophiles and musicians all over the world. What happened? Hoffman: Or "Your Mother Should Know." However, on Beatles For Sale, the mono version really bites because they worked so hard on it; it's so compressed and harsh sounding. Maybe theyre in your garden shed. Kind of Blue Mono & Stereo Collector's Edition 2LP Set 180 gram, 33 rpm, Collector's Edition, Gatefold, Mono. CBS overprint non-DG illustrated below (1962/3). I had the pure joy of borrowing a long-time friend's 6 Eye mono . It is art after alland there is really only one master, and only one first pressing which Miles and Teo agreed on as being "finished". Mostly these are high values like BC/BGand BH/BJ , close to the CBS overprint and transition to two-eye label (1962/63) where lacquers from the third cohort 1CA to 1CL begin to appear. Or the mono tapes went missing. p.s. 9 Modern Album of Terre Haute, IN when supplying Chicago Jacksonville, IL plant. The stereo is better seperated. Kind of Blue is one of wonders of this World Miles and the group were all in their prime. I'm not sure which transfer, mix and master the mono mix on HDTracks is, but I just ordered myself a copy of the limited edition mono vinyl only a couple days ago. Press operators at this time have stressed that their two priorities were to ensure Side 1 and 2 were correctly matched, and that the labels were completely dry. I hate to contradict the man himself, but Flamenco Sketches is not terrible at all, Miles, in either version. It is a sort of rattling sound. I am afraid I agree entirely. You have no way of proving whether their opinion is biased or not and your own opinion of them possibly being biased could be claimed to be biased in itself. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. The Sony reissues are louder than their MoFi counterparts. Once it's released, you can't go back (I am talking to you George Lucas). Not cool. I could go on about the sound but I think the real point is that given todays best 24/192 PCM processing/mixing and using original vinyl as a reference for the new mix, great things can be done. and from others better equipped than I to shed light on its innate greatness or lasting musical significance. However with very much fewer auctions, and fewer sellers still identified the stamper codes,little more likely to be learnedin return for muchgreater effort. Keeping them separate and sending them left, center and right produced "stereo" in name only. Matrix codes found on mono promos, produced from FOUR lacquers: A G, D and H (UPDATE 30/5/21: one promo with 1A has just come to light, with track sequence error, courtesy of a reader. #1. When KOB was originally recorded, Columbia ran simultaneous mono and three-track stereo tape recorderstwo each, one of each being for safety back-up. I have three different versions. If the covers were merely manufactured centrally at Indianapolis and supplied to Bridgeport for the promo pressing, why is there both 4 and 2, AND 6. I can understand why people rave over immense Klangfilm field coil open baffle loudspeakers in a single mono configuration. DE 49th;ad infinitum. When KOB was originally recorded, Columbia ran simultaneous mono and three-track stereo tape recorderstwo each, one of each being for safety back-up. Kevin Gray: Columbia used PAL and PBL prefixes for side 1 and 2, and A and B suffixes for the Santa Maria, Ca. Another fifteen lacquers contribute to the final tally of all those found. My guess is that at one plant alone, the press operators chose the stamper pair from one lacquer. (Also, the mono mix for "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" sounds better to me, but that mix seems to only appear on the single and not on the album) The stereo has far higher dynamic range and feels less compressed. never bought the 200G version by classic records because I understood that the QC on this pressing is bad and that the pressing is really noisy. The greatest issue of this album on vinyl. The process-control system to keep track of lacquers, mothers and stampers did not require matching or sequencing, becauseit did not matter which lacquer was used, as they were all the same as long as you had a Side 1 and a Side 2 stamper mounted in the press. All other pressingseven the re-released copies from second and third generation mothers in 1959 and 1960 which sound very very good, are not the original artthey are approximations made at a later date with mastering notes recalled from the original session. Why didn't they use the orginal mono tapes? The masters were digitized and corrections/edits made. Released 17 August 1959 on Columbia (catalog no. The vinyl copy is very clean and well pressed by RTI. The mono tapes have gone missing. Canadian pressings, from 1954 through 1971, were pressed by Quality Records Ltd. for Columbia Records Of Canada Ltd. this can result in this site earning a commission. W.B of New York adds following correction (September 16,2017): To understand how Columbia matrix codes worked in practice, over 1,000 individual Ebay auctions of. The two stereo tapes were stored safely in a vault for over three decades before anyone thought of taking them out for remastering. One of the interesting discoveries made in 1992 when the tapes were first exhumed, was that Side 1 of the stereo issue, consisting of the tracks recorded at the first session, So What, Freddie Freeloader and Blue in Green, had been playing at the wrong speed since 1959.