Pre-Order Thread

waruv said:
The Todd in the Shadows Lewis Capaldi review was 15 great minutes of entertainment. I just don't get how Lewis became like...a biggish star.
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I love his channel. Been a fan for a while now. His series Trainwreckords is awesome and he picks great albums for those segments.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
I think it's fair to say this is their Eddie since it's been on 5 of their last 6 albums. Unsure if it's an homage but they have had collabs with their characters. Iron Maiden's Eddie Teams Up With Disturbed's 'The Guy' In 'Legacy Of The Beast'

I suppose you could draw parallels to their sound but it's decidedly a bit more nu metal
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This quote from the article answers all my questions: " Disturbed vocalist David Draiman, a noted Iron Maiden superfan..."
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Indymisanthrope said:
Without even reading the full context around the rest of this statement, let me just stop you right there and affirm this is not a bad supposition.
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Looks like they weren't wrong. Discogs has the US listing of the standard black as pressed at MPO.


Looks like this album was pressed wherever they could find plant availability. Some are GZ, some MPO, some have MRP in the deadwax, and another forum member said he saw United in the deadwax. Gonna be a shitshow. Also reading a lot about the AIC webstore version being shipped poorly and lots of warps and damage.
 
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This should be good on Impex….”IMPEX RECORDS has created two versions of this noteworthy release: a two-LP vinyl edition and a 24 bit / 96 kHz SACD. To achieve the best fidelity possible, engineer Paul Blakemore transferred the original three-track session tapes to high-resolution 96/24-bit digital files, which were then mixed by Jochem van der Saag. For mastering, Blakemore used an all-analog signal-processing chain in order to maintain the warmth of the original analog recordings. To master the vinyl LP edition, IMPEX engaged Bernie Grundman, who has mastered many of Barbra's albums over the last sixty years, to create the lacquer pressing master.”

Sure wish they had skipped to digital step in the analog chain. Perfect sound forever. 😡
 
POGunter said:
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This should be good on Impex….”IMPEX RECORDS has created two versions of this noteworthy release: a two-LP vinyl edition and a 24 bit / 96 kHz SACD. To achieve the best fidelity possible, engineer Paul Blakemore transferred the original three-track session tapes to high-resolution 96/24-bit digital files, which were then mixed by Jochem van der Saag. For mastering, Blakemore used an all-analog signal-processing chain in order to maintain the warmth of the original analog recordings. To master the vinyl LP edition, IMPEX engaged Bernie Grundman, who has mastered many of Barbra's albums over the last sixty years, to create the lacquer pressing master.”

Sure wish they had skipped to digital step in the analog chain. Perfect sound forever. 😡
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I mean, it’s very clear at this point, Sony ain’t letting tapes leave the property. I’m also betting they don’t let people set up for a week in the vault to get their mater right. As such, I think we are just going to have to get used to the digital step and also really are we still debating whether or not digital can sound good?
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean, it’s very clear at this point, Sony ain’t letting tapes leave the property. I’m also betting they don’t let people set up for a week in the vault to get their mater right. As such, I think we are just going to have to get used to the digital step and also really are we still debating whether or not digital can sound good?
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No we all agree digital can/does sound good but given that Barbra Streisand has arguably one of the world’s greatest female singing voices filled with tremendous range and nuance do you really think reducing a classic 1962 analog recording to 1s & 0s is the best way to do it? 🤔
 
Lee Newman said:
are we still debating whether or not digital can sound good?
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I'm to the point where the AAA purists can fuck off.

Everyone loves the MoFi's sound despite the nuclear pearl clutching- pricing on OOP MoFi's has not cratered which means no one was actually mad enough to purge them from their shelves.

And then you have MOV which is widely accepted as producing great sounding pressings and almost everything they do is digital.

And then we have Plangent Process which even beats AAA, and has been said it can even make a master tape BETTER.

So yeah, it's time we just go for quality and not worry as much how the good sound got so good.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean, it’s very clear at this point, Sony ain’t letting tapes leave the property. I’m also betting they don’t let people set up for a week in the vault to get their mater right. As such, I think we are just going to have to get used to the digital step and also really are we still debating whether or not digital can sound good?
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I think they are, from what you hear, allowing people to go to them too. By all accounts that’s what MoFi are doing, going to Sony’s studios to make the DSD copy using their own gear. I’m guessing that it’s more
that not everyone has the budget to send a bunch of engineers to New York and to pay for them to stay and studio time for each Sony remaster they want to do.
 
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