Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Art Pepper Available Now
Just in time for Record Store Day — what could be better?
In the interest of streamlining the process of getting reviews like this up on the blog, we’ll try to stick mostly to the facts and let the description of the strengths and weaknesses of the pressings speak for themselves.
One quick note: the sonic qualities you see described below are the ones we heard with the mono switch on our EAR 324P phono stage activated.
Without the switch set to mono, the sound is even thicker and darker.
Yes, as bad as this pressing sounds, you can make it worse if you don’t switch your preamp or phono stage to mono. Hard to believe but it’s true!
The notes for side one can be seen below. For side one we started with the second track.
Side One
Track Two / Red Pepper Blues
- Boomy low end
- Sax is stuck [in the speakers]
- And lacking in breath and space