Why? There's a "modern" quality to the reissue, particularly on the very top, which instead of sailing into the "netherworld", hits a ceiling and stops. Guthrie and company have "modernized" to produce a better tonal balance, but perhaps at the expense of the original producer's intent.īut was this cut from the tape? Or from a high resolution file made from the original tape? I"m talking out of my butt here, but my ears tell me the latter. The pushed top end quality of the original gives way here to a better tonal balance, with a more impactful drum sound and definitely greater dynamics but it sounds as if the original's balance was what Smith wanted. version might have mixed feelings though mostly good ones. This reissue will blow the minds of those used to the original American release, while those familiar with the U.K. is a vibrant, top-end emphasis driven, highly transparent and pleasantly in your face edition, that despite the top end "push" demands that you turn it up for maximum effect. If that's your experience with this record, you haven't heard this record! Okay, that's an exaggeration but not that far off. In any case, the American "twofer" mastered by Wally Traugott sounds absolutely dreadful, as if it was mastered from a cassette with the machine's azimuth improperly set.
pressing has The Pink Floyd on the spine, while the American jacket has a completely incorrect description of what's inside! Columbia pressing (second lacquer, second mother, fifty fourth stamper) (for those who don't know, Columbia UK was an EMI imprint back then, that was not related to American Columbia ), and to an American pressing that was one record of A Nice Pair (Harvest SABB-11257). If, after the first two tunes, your heart isn't racing and the adrenalin isn't flowing even without a laser light show check your heart and then your audio system. However, the recording quality is still vibrant, electric and exciting. Much of the "stereo" is panned hard-left/hard-right but with good center vocal fill as in 4 track recording with desperate aspirations for more tracks that would arrive later at EMI. Listening now to "Flaming" you can hear Robyn Hitchcock say to himself "I must make a record!". It hasn't lost its ability to excite the senses and drop you through the worm hole of time into a magnificent cosmic space. The opening Joe Meek and the Tornadoes meets LSD- twang-bar guitar-drenched "Astonomy Dominé" sets the stage for the album and for Pink Floyd's long career. Norman Smith, best known for engineering early Beatles albums, produced this one, engineer by Peter Brown. TOCH H" is credited to the group and one ("Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk") is by Roger Waters.
Pink Floyd's startling 1967 debut was a Syd Barrett extravaganza-the workings of a brilliant, but soon to be unhinged mind (if he wasn't already) who wrote all but two of the album's eleven tracks of gliding, swooning, off-kilter psychedelia. While the jackets (where appropriate) are not "fold-over", the image of the folds is there, and look so real you will need to run your finger over them to be sure they are just images. The packaging, including the artwork reproduction, is outstanding. I was sent three of the four (not sent A Saucerful of Secrets).
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Bernie Grundman's "BG" scribe mark is on the inner groove area of the 180g LPs, which I believe were pressed at RTI (the other three albums are soundtrack from the film More, A Saucer Full of Secrets and the double LP Ummagumma.
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Long time Pink Floyd curator and engineer James Guthrie (that description sells him short, but that will have to suffice for a record review) along with Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman mastered this and the others in the series from "the original analogue master tapes". and Europe Sony for the rest of the world. Warner Music will manufacture and distribute in the U.K. Sony/Columbia Records is Pink Floyd's American label. Sony/Legacy recently announced that Pink Floyd's catalog would be reissued on vinyl for the first time in twenty years.
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