Hot Stamper Pressing of the Music of The Rolling Stones Available Now
The best copies have texture and real dynamics in the brass.
The bad copies are smeared, grainy and unpleasant when the brass comes in.
Toss those bad ones and start shooting out the good ones.
Believe me, if you find a good one it will be worth all the work.
One customer observed that the recording was “deliberately a bit muddy and smeared…” and he was mostly right about that. We replied as follows;
You are spot on with your observation about the sound being deliberately muddy.
Glyn Johns loves his tube compressors. They can make some tracks murkier than many of us would like, but they work positive wonders most of the time.
A lot of the smearing you reference is from uncleaned or improperly cleaned vinyl. Once we got our cleaning regimen dialed in, a lot of the smear we used to hear so often stopped being a problem.
3-Dimensionality also greatly improves with clean, fully restored vinyl. A lot of old records just sound like old records until you learn how to clean them right.
Play It Loud
Even through the noise of the bad vinyl you can hear the audio magic. The sound is exactly what you want from a Stones album: deep punchy bass and dynamic grungy guitars.
This record is to be played loud like it says on the inner sleeve and the surface noise is to be ignored.
The louder you play it, the less bothersome the noise will be.
This album ROCKS and it was not made to be listened to in a comfy chair with a glass of wine.
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