All Things King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

BazookaTooth said:
More please ! Im on the fence of buying this. Push me over !
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what would you like to see?

PS: started cleaning/listening. Currently listening to Live in Adelaide '19 and it's maybe lacking a little umph in the bass department but otherwise so far sounds really good. honestly I haven't listened to this digitally in a real long time, so I'm not sure if that lack of umph may just be the way it sounds no matter the media it's playing off of or if it's due to squeezing the show onto the space available on the discs.

I do have the Mystery Jack x Cygoodies copy of Live in Asheville so can compare those two to see if it has anything to do with Needlejuice's pressing, though that show may also just sound different than the Adelaide show.
 
Tillman said:
what would you like to see?

PS: started cleaning/listening. Currently listening to Live in Adelaide '19 and it's maybe lacking a little umph in the bass department but otherwise so far sounds really good. honestly I haven't listened to this digitally in a real long time, so I'm not sure if that lack of umph may just be the way it sounds no matter the media it's playing off of or if it's due to squeezing the show onto the space available on the discs.

I do have the Mystery Jack x Cygoodies copy of Live in Asheville so can compare those two to see if it has anything to do with Needlejuice's pressing, though that show may also just sound different than the Adelaide show.
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No idea, ill probably buy it anyways 😃

Are any of those gatefolds ? Inner sleeves all paper ?
 
BazookaTooth said:
No idea, ill probably buy it anyways 😃

Are any of those gatefolds ? Inner sleeves all paper ?
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they're all gatefold with Adelaide being tri-fold. all have generic paper sleeves, which is a bit disappointing. the photos printed on the insides of the gatefolds are a bit blown-up and grainy, I like what Mystery Jack did better with the gatefold and that has printed inners. it's not necessarily that the NJ version looks bad, though it doesn't look great, but it's more that the Mystery Jack one just looks phenomenal.

NJ Ashville:
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MJ Ashville:
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@BazookaTooth, I only got to listen to and finish Adelaide so far. going to work on this over the week.

here's the etching on side F of the Adelaide show, I used some editing trickery to try and make it more visible.

though this disc has far too big of a center hole which I don't like, I have a clamp so centered it as best I could and pinned it down but not sure if I'm doing my turntable a disservice if it's not exactly centered when I clamp it, but it sounded just fine just now listening to it

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@BazookaTooth

also the actual box is pretty solid, as good as your average box set. I don't love the design and fonts on the box itself much, but it's fine. the foil lettering on the front and back are a nice touch. I also don't particularly like that the fonts on the spines aren't uniform across the 5 records but all this is really getting into nitpicking territory.

overall it's a solid B in terms of the box and packaging. I don't think I'd say any part of it is sub-par, there are design choices I don't love but that's subjective, so the next person may love everything about it. the paper sleeves is a bummer, again it's not sub-par but printed sleeves would have made the overall package nicer.

the records are overall all very nice in terms of colors. there's maybe 1 or 2 that aren't as amazing as the others but NJ generally shines in this department and once again they did a great job. the main issue is that center hole of disc 3, but I doubt that's a universal defect for all the boxes.

can't comment on the sound across the board. the one show so far sounded good. it didn't blow my balls off but definitely no major issues or complaints. I know that they might be sequencing some of the shows out of order, unless they addressed that and kept the tracklists in the original/correct order but the one I listened to flowed perfectly/seamlessly so I don't think it was sequenced out of order, though it is the only one that's 3 discs, so maybe that allowed them to keep that show in the correct order.

anyway, like I said so far I'd give it an overall B. nothing is worse than average and some aspects, like the color and weight of the discs, are great. again I can't comment about the sound across all the discs just yet, but otherwise I'd recommend it if you're interested in it. that said there is room for improvement on the packaging overall for me that keeps it from being a stellar box set.

sorry for the rambling...
 
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Tillman said:
@BazookaTooth

also the actual box is pretty solid, as good as your average box set. I don't love the design and fonts on the box itself much, but it's fine. the foil lettering on the front and back are a nice touch. I also don't particularly like that the fonts on the spines aren't uniform across the 5 records but all this is really getting into nitpicking territory.

overall it's a solid B in terms of the box and packaging. I don't think I'd say any part of it is sub-par, there are design choices I don't love but that's subjective, so the next person may love everything about it. the paper sleeves is a bummer, again it's not sub-par but printed sleeves would have made the overall package nicer.

the records are overall all very nice in terms of colors. there's maybe 1 or 2 that aren't as amazing as the others but NJ generally shines in this department and once again they did a great job. the main issue is that center hole of disc 3, but I doubt that's a universal defect for all the boxes.

can't comment on the sound across the board. the one show so far sounded good. it didn't blow my balls off but definitely no major issues or complaints. I know that they might be sequencing some of the shows out of order, unless they addressed that and kept the tracklists in the original/correct order but the one I listened to flowed perfectly/seamlessly so I don't think it was sequenced out of order, though it is the only one that's 3 discs, so maybe that allowed them to keep that show in the correct order.

anyway, like I said so far I'd give it an overall B. nothing is worse than average and some aspects, like the color and weight of the discs, are great. again I can't comment about the sound across all the discs just yet, but otherwise I'd recommend it if you're interested in it. that said there is room for improvement on the packaging overall for me that keeps it from being a stellar box set.

sorry for the rambling...
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Thank you so much for rambling.
 
BazookaTooth said:
Thank you so much for rambling.
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so, just listened to the first song on Side B of the Asheville show (This Thing), first from the Mystery Jack pressing and then followed it up with the exact same track from the Needlejuice pressing and I can't say for sure there is a difference but I think I'm preferring the Needlejuice in the back to back test. It just seems it sounds a bit more up-front and brighter ever so slightly.

If nothing else this is to say that the Needlejuice sounds as good if not better than the Mystery Jack. I think based off of this I am inclined to bump the overall to a B+.

Really right now it seems that they are simply lacking in the extras that made the MJ pressing that much nicer; artwork, vinyl color, presentation, zoetrope labels (which I can never get to work anyway), poster, + the Cygoodies bonuses. If NJ had all that type of above-and-beyond detail it would made their package an easy A+ but I just don't love some of their design choices, but of course the sound is the most important thing.
 
Tillman said:
so, just listened to the first song on Side B of the Asheville show (This Thing), first from the Mystery Jack pressing and then followed it up with the exact same track from the Needlejuice pressing and I can't say for sure there is a difference but I think I'm preferring the Needlejuice in the back to back test. It just seems it sounds a bit more up-front and brighter ever so slightly.

If nothing else this is to say that the Needlejuice sounds as good if not better than the Mystery Jack. I think based off of this I am inclined to bump the overall to a B+.

Really right now it seems that they are simply lacking in the extras that made the MJ pressing that much nicer; artwork, vinyl color, presentation, zoetrope labels (which I can never get to work anyway), poster, + the Cygoodies bonuses. If NJ had all that type of above-and-beyond detail it would made their package an easy A+ but I just don't love some of their design choices, but of course the sound is the most important thing.
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Mystery Jack is the only one I'm aware that should have any noticeable audio differences as its a mix of his recording from the crowd and the recording the band released. I'm not hip to exactly how they went about this but I'd expect that to maybe not sound as "up front". Happy the needlejuices are holding up. Looks like Newbury just put up three exclusives.
 
Enaz Fox said:
Mystery Jack is the only one I'm aware that should have any noticeable audio differences as its a mix of his recording from the crowd and the recording the band released. I'm not hip to exactly how they went about this but I'd expect that to maybe not sound as "up front". Happy the needlejuices are holding up. Looks like Newbury just put up three exclusives.
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was that for the entire show or just the bonus 7"?

oh yeah, the Mystery Jack also came with a bonus 7". they cut no corners and went all out with their pressing, it was reflected in their pricing as it wasn't cheap but again their entire package is an A+, as it's one of the nicest overall packages I have ever received for a record.
 
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