Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (24-96 Vinyl Mastersound HC 33453)
Half Speed Mastered Extended Range Audiophile Pressing (1980)
FLAC | Transfer log + MD5 + M3U + Multiple CUEs (5 and 12 Track) | Full 400 dpi jpg Scans
Original release 1975 | 44:14 min | 845 Mb | RS
Progressive | Classic Rock
Can you have too many Pink Floyd versions? You be the judge; but vinyl junkies will want to check this one out. Kudos to the original ripper, who not only did a superb rip, but provided extensive documentation from the album history to the technical specs to the scans. See the hidden Txt files.
Interestingly, it seems CBS botched many of these Half-Speed Remasters...but this is not one of them. This from the Steve Hoffman Forum: | “ | Here's another juicy tidbit from Gregg Schnitzer, who served as Director of Product Development at Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs from 1980 to 1986:
"CBS sent me a catalog and invited me to pick a baker's dozen of titles that I would like to do on vinyl. So I picked lots of neat stuff like Abraxas, Joni Mitchell, Ten Years After, Earth Wind and Fire and so on, and ordered the records for tech review. I sent the list of my choices back and they sent me records but I never heard from them again. Several months later I was cruising a record store and I see this glitzy rack with the 13 titles I had picked. It said, "CBS Master Sound - Audiophile Pressing - Half Speed Mastered." Boy, was I pissed. I bought one of each and went back to the lab. After I cooled down I called Gary to see if he could do some listening with me.
Thirty seconds after dropping the needle on the first disc we stopped and looked at each other in horror. Then we tried another of the CBS discs. We stopped that one, looked at each other, and laughed till we had tears in our eyes and cramps in our sides. CBS tried to do an end run on us by having us do the A&R work. The problem was that they, apparently, cut the discs at half speed but didn't adjust their EQ or Dolby systems down an octave. They just cut it at half speed with their real time mastering notes for processing. Man, it sounded like watermelon seeds shooting out the speakers. Those poor guys looked real bad after that and we looked real good. They never did get it right and eventually stopped trying."
Amazing. Simply amazing. I can't believe CBS could screw things up like that. Well, actually I can. But still, I bet plenty of audiophiles snapped up these LP's anyway. Has anyone here actually heard any of the Mastersound LP's? Are they every bit as Gregg Schnitzer says? Maybe most sound bad, but ONE stands out and has been hailed by many for being one of the best sonic copies available of this title. That's Pink Floyd's Wish you were here. The vinyl Masteround 1/2 speed of WYWH is a completely different animal. They must have caught the ball after they dropped it there.
Randy W | ” |
Release Description---------------------------------------------------------------------
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Artist...............: Pink Floyd
Album................: Wish You Were Here
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: Columbia Mastersound half-speed mastered audiophile LP
Year.................: Original - 1975, this Mastersound - 1980
Ripper...............: See Log for ripping details
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.1.4 20070213
Channels.............: Stereo / 96000 HZ / 24 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Included.............: Transfer log, MD5, M3U, CUEs
Covers...............: Front, Back, LP Labels (400 dpi jpg)
Playing Time.........: 00:44:14
Total Size...........: 802.87 MB
Hardware:
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Cartridge........: Stanton Groove Master II with Pickering elliptical stylus
from KAB, tracking: 1.25 grams
Turntable........: Modified Technics SL-1200MK5 from KAB
Preamp...........: Velleman 8021 Control Amplifier
Audio Adapter....: Creative Labs E-MU 0202 set to 24bit/96kHz
Computer.........: Sony VAIO 3.0 GHz Pentium IV
Software:
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Audio Editor 1...: Cool Edit Pro 2.1: record at 32bit/96kHz,
Save as 24-bit packed int(type 1)
Noise Reduction..: Edit Pro's Click/Pop Eliminator on first 21 seconds, manual
removal of 2 other pops
Audio Editor 1...: Cool Edit Pro 2.1: Drop & name track cues
Audio Editor 2...: GoldWave v5.14: save cue file
Cue File Editor..: foobar2000: add metadata to cue file, split Image.wav,
convert to FLACs, & tag FLACs from image cue file
File converter...: CUETools: convert single wav cues to multiple flac cues)
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I picked up this gem at a used record store. The lable said "near mint," and that was only a slight exaggeration. This is a wonderful sounding pressing of one of my favorite albums. I split the album into five tracks because that is the format to which we are accustomed. I used the preset named "Old Record - Quiet Audio" in Cool Edit Pro's Click/Pop Eliminator on the first 21 seconds.I used Click/Pop Eliminator's "Fill Single Click Now" option to eliminate two other pops. No other noise reduction or editing was done.I also included cue files that divide the album into the twelve tracks that are implied on the album lable. Just open the file "Multiple FLAC (5 files, 12 tracks).cue" with foobar or AutoFLAC if you would like the five files displayed as twelve tracks instead of five.
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See the transfer log for a few moremore details.
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Transfer LogThe album was transcribed on a Technics SL-1200MK5 turntable with custom
modifications by KAB Electro-Acoustics using a Stanton Groove Master II
cartridge with Pickering elliptical stylus, also from KAB. The preamp was a
Velleman 8021 Control Amplifier. Analog to digital converson to 24-bit/96kHz was
with an E-MU-0202. Recording was on a Sony VAIO desktop computer with a 3.0 GHz
Pentium IV processor using Cool Edit Pro 2.1 at 32-bit/96kHz, floating. Extra
"silence" at the beginning, end and between sides was trimmed in Cool Edit Pro.
No volume adjustment was required.
I found the "static" during the quiet beginning of track one to be distracting,
so I used the preset named "Old Record - Quiet Audio" in Cool Edit Pro's
Click/Pop Eliminator on the first 21 seconds (seconds:frames).I used Click/Pop
Eliminator's "Fill Single Click Now" option to eliminate two other pops. No
other noise reduction or editing was done. Cues were dropped and named and the
file saved as a 24-bit 96kHz type 1 wav. This file was opened in GoldWave to
extract and save the image cue file. Metadata was added to the image cue file
using foobar. The multiple files cue was created with CUETools (www.moitah.net).
Both image file was split into tracks, compressed to FLAC and tagged in
foobar2000. M3u files were created with mp3tag.
Hardware:
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Cartridge........: Stanton Groove Master II with Pickering elliptical stylus
from KAB, tracking: 1.25 grams
Turntable........: Modified Technics SL-1200MK5 from KAB
Preamp...........: Velleman 8021 Control Amplifier
Audio Adapter....: Creative Labs E-MU 0202 set to 24bit/96kHz
Computer.........: Sony VAIO 3.0 GHz Pentium IV
Software:
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Audio Editor 1...: Cool Edit Pro 2.1: record at 32bit/96kHz,
Save as 24-bit packed int(type 1)
Noise Reduction..: Edit Pro's Click/Pop Eliminator on first 21 seconds, manual
removal of 2 other pops
Audio Editor 1...: Cool Edit Pro 2.1: Drop & name track cues
Audio Editor 2...: GoldWave v5.14: save cue file
Cue File Editor..: foobar2000: add metadata to cue file, split Image.wav,
convert to FLACs, & tag FLACs from image cue file
File converter...: CUETools: convert single wav cues to multiple flac cues)
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Thank you VERY MUCH for the effort
you took by carefully recording this one
with that awesome setup.
You´re providing us with the closest
sound to vinyl ever... If there´s
a improvement over this, I´d like to hear
it, since I don´t like remastered CDs.
regards
fudtogo
Would love to know if you have plans of uploading Floyd's The Wall on vinyl? would be grateful.
LP Record
Original Release Date: 1979
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Original recording, Double LP
Label: Columbia
ASIN: B000NZD9RS
peace ...