The Vinyl Restoration Project | The Guess Who - "8:15" - Original LP - Revitalized - 1st Pass II @TheVinylRestorationProject | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
TheVRP Archives - Original 1st Edition Pressing - "The Guess Who – American Woman" - 1970 - RCA Records – LSP-4266
1st Pass II - 1st Pass version with some improvements i.e. less distortion, improved cohesion, balance, and volume leveling.
Recorded in Chicago, RCA Studios -1970 - Direct to Analog Disc Master recorded perhaps? Can someone elaborate?
My theory:
This recording has a 'new sound' introduced for back then (circa 1970). It's in the area, perhaps, of direct-to-analog disc master' type sound (to me) where magnetic tape was NOT involved with recording in the studio but rather a direct-recording-to-analog-disc-master process was being tried?. And so aesthetically speaking, it has that 'studio sound' where 'the blacks were even blacker', much like what we hear today with our digital recordings. Plus liner notes tells us that Randy Kling was involved in the recording/mastering process so perhaps could have been. Or perhaps it was a new 'state of the art' customized board in the RCA studio in Chicago at the time or a combination of both.
+1st Pass Version - youtu.be/K1e6yOFGrIg
*'Tru-192' - A true hardware 192kHz/24 bit hi-rez transfer
**Digital HFE - High Fidelity Engineered
"Nice To See You" by The Left Banke
Words and Music by - Tom Finn
Lyrics -
+1st Pass - Usually indicates that a lesser audio source(vinyl pressing) was used to create the transfer. Also, very little, if any, audio restoration treatments are applied on a 1st Pass. Therefore, it is highly likely that you will hear various degrees of audio distortion throughout. If and when a better audio source is acquired, a second transfer/restoration project will eventually ensue as part of a 2nd Pass and depending on the results, a full scale audio restoration will usually also accompany the 2nd Pass for much better results.
No copyright infringement intended. For educational purposes and for cultural significance.
TheVRP Archives - Original 1st Edition Pressing - "The Guess Who – American Woman" - 1970 - RCA Records – LSP-4266
1st Pass II - 1st Pass version with some improvements i.e. less distortion, improved cohesion, balance, and volume leveling.
Recorded in Chicago, RCA Studios -1970 - Direct to Analog Disc Master recorded perhaps? Can someone elaborate?
My theory:
This recording has a 'new sound' introduced for back then (circa 1970). It's in the area, perhaps, of direct-to-analog disc master' type sound (to me) where magnetic tape was NOT involved with recording in the studio but rather a direct-recording-to-analog-disc-master process was being tried?. And so aesthetically speaking, it has that 'studio sound' where 'the blacks were even blacker', much like what we hear today with our digital recordings. Plus liner notes tells us that Randy Kling was involved in the recording/mastering process so perhaps could have been. Or perhaps it was a new 'state of the art' customized board in the RCA studio in Chicago at the time or a combination of both.
+1st Pass Version - youtu.be/K1e6yOFGrIg
*'Tru-192' - A true hardware 192kHz/24 bit hi-rez transfer
**Digital HFE - High Fidelity Engineered
"Nice To See You" by The Left Banke
Words and Music by - Tom Finn
Lyrics -
+1st Pass - Usually indicates that a lesser audio source(vinyl pressing) was used to create the transfer. Also, very little, if any, audio restoration treatments are applied on a 1st Pass. Therefore, it is highly likely that you will hear various degrees of audio distortion throughout. If and when a better audio source is acquired, a second transfer/restoration project will eventually ensue as part of a 2nd Pass and depending on the results, a full scale audio restoration will usually also accompany the 2nd Pass for much better results.
No copyright infringement intended. For educational purposes and for cultural significance.
