CCR half speed vinyl collection 2018

sinbaadi

Someone talk me out of buying this please.

I don't even have a turntable!

Kitsune

Half speed? Best make sure you have a turntable that has 45 on it then

Buy it if you want. You may already have the music. I buy my stuff in multiples in different formats if I like it enough.

Gagaryn

I got the 2014 box set, not half speed mastered but sounds good. Presume this is a 50th anniversary thing. 

sinbaadi

I don't know what half speed mastering is.  I just thought this looked great, and CCR were a huge part of me finally picking a guitar up.
£170.

Kitsune

sinbaadi said:

I don't know what half speed mastering is.  I just thought this looked great, and CCR were a huge part of me finally picking a guitar up.
£170.

Its one of these fetish tags to get the vinyl renewal buyins chattering, akin to 180gm vinyl.

I believe its supposed to improve the sound quality overall.

Gagaryn

sinbaadi said:

I don't know what half speed mastering is.  I just thought this looked great, and CCR were a huge part of me finally picking a guitar up.
£170.

It just means that the acetate that is then used to form the mould that presses the records is cut at half the normal playback speed (16 2/3 rpm for a normal LP which plays back at 33 1/3 rpm) from a source also running at half speed. The point of doing it at half speed is it supposedly makes a more accurate copy. Since both the source and the acetate are running at half speed, when the pressed record is played back at normal speed the music is at normal speed.

Worryingly that box set makes no mention of what the source is - from that I deduce it is not the original master tapes - very likely given their age. Often reissued vinyl is mastered from copies of the master tapes. Sometimes copies of the copies. In some cases it is remastered from existing vinyl!

Gagaryn

I got this one, again complete studio albums - it was £60 when I got it. Price is a bit more optimistic now. http://amzn.eu/d/7RSwDZH

 

gringopig

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