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They were mastered by different people. CD and digital was mastered by Mandy Parnel (except Minipops which was done by Beau Thomas) and vinyl was 100% mastered by Beau Thomas. It's written on the sleeve of the LP i love being wrong now i have some investigating to do
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I'm almost positive there is zero difference in the mastering. the process of ripping a record will always have unique sonic characteristics from the components themselves. A lot of people are complaining about the digital files being overly compressed, but I sat down and listened on my Grado SR225is and it's dynamic and expansive. Only minipops seems to be mastered really loudly. eznzea is on the way. Actually, something even more exciting... stay tuned. holy shit probably not gonna drop today... I'm growing fatigued from anticipation in general, but I am very excited to see what's next.
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I was going to ask: anyone know anything about this pressing? There's a ton of the "1972" versions floating around in the States right now, but those are basically just CD versions pressed to vinyl, right? See Warp's original announcement of those represses: http://warp.net/records/aphex-twin/new-vinyl-represses "'...I Care Because You Do' will be recut from the original vinyl production master tape. 'Richard D James Album' will be re-cut for vinyl from the CD master by Kevin Metcalfe, the original mastering engineer on '…I Care Because You Do'." So, presuming the Bleep preorder is for another pressing of the above-mentioned reissue, the release is cut for vinyl from the CD master by someone who knows what he's doing, rather than some shit reissue label that acquired the US rights and the CD master. Even if the 1972 and Warp reissues were sonically the same in every respect, the Warp reissue is 180g. I have both the 1972 and Warp 2012 reissues of ...ICBYD, and the Warp reissue is just better in every possible way. Even the quality of the card stock used for the sleeve is better on the Warp reissue. On a different vinyl note, does anyone know if there ended up being different contents inside of 3xLP copies sold by indie record stores as opposed to Bleep or other stores' copies?
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no, haven't seen anything yet. keeping my eyes peeled as well. warp did announce via twitter when the UK entries were closed and emails were being distributed. no word about USA. Other Music NYC told me to watch their twitter and Facebook. I told them I don't play that shit and the guy said he'd email me if anything goes down, which he won't. I'm going to pester turntable lab next. lmao, "i don't play that shit" you: "hey, tell me something" them: "we can't tell you that right here this second, but we'll be telling people about it through our thing-teller" you: "nah, i'm good" welp, thanks for the info anyway :)
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no, haven't seen anything yet. keeping my eyes peeled as well. warp did announce via twitter when the UK entries were closed and emails were being distributed. no word about USA.
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Aphex Twin The Caustic Window LP (CAT023) Kickstarter FAQ - LIVE NOW!
bopslayer replied to Joyrex's topic in Aphex Twin
I hear surface noise through a lot of the tracks. Not that it matters. Yeah, the further I get, the more I hear. If I had to state any sort of pattern, it seems to be at the beginning of each of the sides. (side C breaks the pattern) Regardless, this is awesome and sounds great.- 2,656 replies
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Aphex Twin The Caustic Window LP (CAT023) Kickstarter FAQ - LIVE NOW!
bopslayer replied to Joyrex's topic in Aphex Twin
it's a caustic window release, as expected it's not ae level As good as previous Caustic Window and Polygon Window. It's a quality rip. revpok is insanely good, my god. oh yeah, it's a quality rip, but there were comments from some people about DSD quality fucking come on, it's caustic window... I guess people REALLY wanna hear that crunch gonna be that guy -- DSD doesn't provide any advantages over PCM. 16-bit 44.1kHz is all we need. As far as the sound quality (for the transfer itself) goes, A1 (towards the beginning) was the only track in which I could hear any notable surface noise. The rest (that I've heard) sounded almost completely transparent.- 2,656 replies
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Aphex Twin The Caustic Window LP (CAT023) Kickstarter FAQ - LIVE NOW!
bopslayer replied to Joyrex's topic in Aphex Twin
thanks joyrex and rdj and all others involved :)- 2,656 replies
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Aphex Twin The Caustic Window LP (CAT023) Kickstarter FAQ - LIVE NOW!
bopslayer replied to Joyrex's topic in Aphex Twin
Thank you - that's an excellent idea (and I am sure the guy who I asked to do this would agree). I will look into this further. yeah it does seem like a good idea! he'd better not do any messing about with the files though....there's lots of mention of declicking, dehiss and denoise I'll second that. I've just noticed though - it seems like he only does transfer to CD, so sound quality won't be good enough WATMM edit: derp....FAQ states he can convert to multiple formats A CD would be good enough anyway... ;) 16-bit/44.1kHz is mathematically sufficient for audible signals, but that's an entirely different conversation. I think the proper cleaning and ripping from that John Shaw fellow would be ideal. I'd even be okay with him going through his usual de-clicking process, as long as there existed an untouched lossless rip along with the post-processed files. Looks like his services are about as top-notch as we could reasonably hope for. Very interesting. Also, backed- 2,656 replies
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Aphex Twin The Caustic Window LP (CAT023) Kickstarter FAQ - LIVE NOW!
bopslayer replied to Joyrex's topic in Aphex Twin
lol, i'll contribute to furthering this thought in a jocular way. He is a new user though, how can we vouch (no offence man but this is the first thing that should come to mind), how on earth would you trust someone that just registered with this disc. It would be an insanely stupid decision from a security standpoint. Especially when their first posts were roundabout geared towards them being sent the unreleased thing. If it was at all unclear, I am not suggesting that I do this rip myself or that I am trusted with absolutely anything. All I am saying is that some of the Kickstarter funds could go towards ensuring a proper setup rather than some loose change returned to each backer. It seems like me calling the Arkiv a DJ cart was incorrect, but doing a bit of research into it shows that it uses a heavy tracking force (designed for broadcast/archival, so minimizing chance of tracking error), which wouldn't be very kind to the purchaser of the vinyl record. A better cartridge wouldn't wear the vinyl nearly as much upon one play and would probably sound much better. Not that anyone is asking, and not that I'm necessarily offering, but I could see myself fronting $175 for a JICO SAS stylus to be shipped to the ripper (or investing in some other way) if there was a partial return on my investment. Just because I recently registered for a WATMM account doesn't mean I'm new to this stuff.- 2,656 replies