RMW 678-679-690 TB - Unsurpassed Masters Vol 1-3 mono (RE)
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:47 am
THE BEATLES
UNSURPASSED MASTERS Volumes 1-3
Original mono mis-mastered pressings
Remastered Edition
RMW 678, 679 & 690 (2011)
In 1989, Yellow Dog made its first impression on the world with the release of the groundbreaking "Unsurpassed Masters" series. Except that the first three volumes were mis-mastered by the Korean CD manufacturing facility. Instead of being excellent quality stereo, they wound up pressing an unknown (although fairly large) number of these discs in noisy mono, using only one of the stereo channels on both tracks. They were made aware of this, and at some point, distribution was stopped while the situation was rectified. The discs were remade elsewhere and redistributed, along with new artwork that read "Previously available in mono only - NOW IN STEREO" on the back. This may be the only case in history of a bootleg having been withdrawn and reissued.
A collector kindly supplied new EAC extractions of these first three CDs and scans of the artwork. Examination of the sound files shows that, as with everything that Yellow Dog guy has ever released (even under all his pseudonyms), everything was at the wrong speed and out of phase; recording levels were all over the map, track markers were placed in odd locations after the track had started, and there were large areas of blank tape with thumps from the tape machine starting and stopping before and after every track.
It was our aim to preserve these now-rare editions for posterity. Rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, we have opted to leave all the warts in, and just correct the pitch and levels and redo the track markers to start at the beginning of a tape segment (not necessarily at the beginning of the music). No noise reduction was used, it's all still there.
Artwork is included.
Special thanks to Philippe.
hxxps://we.tl/t-wHTMa63wzZ
Expires July 23rd
Enjoy!
UNSURPASSED MASTERS Volumes 1-3
Original mono mis-mastered pressings
Remastered Edition
RMW 678, 679 & 690 (2011)
In 1989, Yellow Dog made its first impression on the world with the release of the groundbreaking "Unsurpassed Masters" series. Except that the first three volumes were mis-mastered by the Korean CD manufacturing facility. Instead of being excellent quality stereo, they wound up pressing an unknown (although fairly large) number of these discs in noisy mono, using only one of the stereo channels on both tracks. They were made aware of this, and at some point, distribution was stopped while the situation was rectified. The discs were remade elsewhere and redistributed, along with new artwork that read "Previously available in mono only - NOW IN STEREO" on the back. This may be the only case in history of a bootleg having been withdrawn and reissued.
A collector kindly supplied new EAC extractions of these first three CDs and scans of the artwork. Examination of the sound files shows that, as with everything that Yellow Dog guy has ever released (even under all his pseudonyms), everything was at the wrong speed and out of phase; recording levels were all over the map, track markers were placed in odd locations after the track had started, and there were large areas of blank tape with thumps from the tape machine starting and stopping before and after every track.
It was our aim to preserve these now-rare editions for posterity. Rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, we have opted to leave all the warts in, and just correct the pitch and levels and redo the track markers to start at the beginning of a tape segment (not necessarily at the beginning of the music). No noise reduction was used, it's all still there.
Artwork is included.
Special thanks to Philippe.
hxxps://we.tl/t-wHTMa63wzZ
Expires July 23rd
Enjoy!
