Great photo. Re making records my guess is that how many releases are done. You get a digital file (could be sent by email) and you make your record from that. I really don't see those big reels of tape fed-exing around the globe anymore. 24 hours though I would have thought he could just keep the hard drive as they must have back ups.
I was just lucky because I was reading this thread back on 4/25 that Amazon had this box priced at 179.98 and I preordered immediately. I wonder how many they sold at that price before the changed it?
Exactly the same here. I’m shipping to the UK but coincidentally I may not be around om the day of the estimated delivery (19th to the 21st) because I’m going to see the Stones in Twickenham. Really looking forward to getting this...I hope the box has a WAV download with it too though
My order from a few weeks ago still says "Delivery date pending." Umm...maybe we need a shipping & pricing thread.
According to a post on IORR, it appears that "Slave" is the original edit, so at least it seems as though Miles was consistent in keeping the original run times in tact on these releases.
I got in on the $179.98 Amazon price as well. I don't think many were pre-ordered /sold at that price before they caught the mistake. Wonder how many are forum members? Mine has now updated to arriving tomorrow by 8pm. Probably will ship today, as I'm only 40 miles from their Kenosha, WI. distribution hub. If this sale goes through, which I assume it will. It'll be the best deal I've ever gotten purchasing anything online.
I also got the $179.98 Amazon price. Scheduled to arrive tomorrow, 6/15. Really looking forward to it.
I'd be interested to hear any opinions of this set compared to the earlier 1971-2005 vinyl box. I've got that (and Blue & Lonesome) and figured $350-$400 was more than I needed/wanted to spend to potentially upgrade (given the lower-res sources used for the earlier set).
It wasn't bad - but I found it pretty polite in comparison to my original UK, US and Japan issues - and a 'polite' sound is not what you want from an album like Sticky Fingers...
I thought it was good. I bought the Spanish cover version. I have US and UK first pressings but no Japanese pressing. Looking forward to hearing this one from the box.
I'm like you, (in Northern IL) and my Amazon status says arriving by 8 PM tomorrow as well. I wasn't planning on getting this set but was able to get in on the $179 deal so I figured why not. If I don't like the set I can always trade it to another collector. Really looking forward to hearing what was done with Goats Head Soup. Based on the interviews, it seems they tried to keep the same tonality as the originals but I'm still curious. Will be the first LP from the set I play.
For those that got in on the 179.00 deal/mistake that’s incredible, never known anything like that for such an expensive set !
I always thought that was an amazingly lucky find for those who got it. Now that I’ve actually held this set in my hands and gone through it a bit I find it even more incredible for $179. I’m really bummed I didn’t catch that on 4/25.
You would know if the pitch is correct. Instruments on a recording are almost always in correct pitch because musicians tune their instruments prior to recording. So if a song is in E, but the track plays slightly below E, then you know that the track is running slower than the actual live performance in the studio. Of course, it might have been recorded or mastered at a slower speed, either intentionally or inadvertently.
I agree with you that if the only reason was the length of the side, there were other option than speeding up a track, which seems like a pretty extreme solution to the problem. But, side 2 of IORR on the original tapes is over the 25 minute mark where you’re not “supposed” to add any more music (unless you work for Ronco or Pickwick). They also cut Luxury by 30 seconds. So I guess it’s possible. We may never know.
That would be the pitch the track was recorded at. But that isn't necessarily "correct". Speed is sometimes changed intentionally. Also, tuners weren't prevalent in that era, so "in tune" could vary depending on what reference was available.
I agree that speed is sometimes changed intentionally. But the second sentence may not be right. In a band you don’t need a tuning fork - just tune against the piano, because pianos are tuned by specialists and they tend to stay in tune as opposed to other stringed instruments.
Pianos aren't always in tune. And if there's not a piano on the recording, a band may not necessarily tune to it.
Likewise, even if a band tuned to an in-tune piano, instruments drift out of tune, sometimes quickly (I can only imagine how fast Brian Jones' Vox Teardrop went out of tune). 35 takes and four hours later those guitars/basses are no longer in tune.
