Morbid Angel - Diverse Pressings On Vinyl Explained.

Question from Mark (mericksn@gmail.com) :


Hey!
So, dorsum inward 2002, you lot guys reissued Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness on vinyl. Despite non having a turntable at the time, too existence something of a collector at the time, I decided to snag i when I came across it inward the shop patch they were withal around.
Fast frontwards 10 years, too I lastly got my outset tape player. I started dorsum on the other collector-type vinyls I had acquired inward the intervening period, similar Relapse's Atheist collection boxset -- I was blown away at how bright they sounded! I eagerly waited for Piece of Time to complete then I could lastly unseal my transparent-blue pressing of Altars too lastly sense it inward its master form... Well, I'm certain you lot know where this i is going.
Honestly, it sounds similar garbage. It's total of scratches too pops too precisely sounds brittle too harsh. None of that feature analog warmth, no phrases popping out that got lost inward translation on their journeying to digital inward the CD pressings, or anything. In fact, it sounds markedly worse than the iii or iv dissimilar CD issues I own.
So, I inquire you, my honey Earache representative: What gives? Was the master pressing precisely really awful? Did you lot guys royally screw the re-pressing on this edition? And are the recent vinyl reissues of the other Morbid classics bailiwick to this same treatment?
I'd love to purchase them all to back upwards i of my favorite (and, let's live honest: in all probability i of the unmarried most of import bands inward expiry metallic history) bands of all time, but that seems a rather tall social club afterward the 2002 edition has left such a foul taste.
Regards,

Mark 

Answer: Well outset of all give thank you lot you for purchasing the vinyl dorsum inward 2002 on bluish wax-  but you lot were false to intend you lot could " listen the album inward its master form". Maybe this spider web log is also true for its ain good, but the reality is buying a vinyl is non a ticket for fourth dimension locomote dorsum to the 1980s.

We've sold many thousands but you're the outset somebody to complain to us almost the character - distressing to listen it's non to your liking, but it was never advertised equally the definitive audiophile  edition or from master analogue tapes. What you lot need maintain is a USA pressing made past times Earache's office/licensee stateside too was component division of a serial of approx 10 early on Earache albums re-issued inward 2002,  too the motivation was precisely to brand them available in i trial again on wax, alongside overnice big artwork, cipher more.

Trends inward vinyl come upwards too go,  shaped vinyl was all the rage inward the 80s, motion painting discs abounded,  whereas coloured wax  was a rarity- you lot could need maintain whatsoever coloring then long equally it's black. Nowadays coloured wax,  swirls too splatter are everywhere, but the fastest growing  tendency is the audiophile analogue crowd who favour supreme sound character over gimmicks.  Our recent 2012 Napalm Death FDR  (Full Dynamic Range) editions of Scum too Feto were made from master era analogue tapes too are audiophile editions alongside all dynamics preserved,  too need maintain been then good received, we'll produce to a greater extent than of those soon, too advertise them equally such. To live honest the explanation for whatsoever unsavoury sound on the 2002 editions was precisely because the loudness state of war was inward total swing inward that period.

See pics higher upwards of the actual  master metalwork (mother/ stamper) used to press the Carcass Mosh eighteen 2002 Uk edition, too the information for Mosh 21 Entombed United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland 2002 edition at the plant- Damont Audio.

On a related subject,  Earache precisely announced  pre-orders for the 2 Iron Monkey albums  which will  live pressed for the outset fourth dimension e'er on vinyl - incidentally, all proceeds  larn to Kidney inquiry charity.  Denizens of the Doom forums at in i trial began to inquiry the sound quality, since its non advertised equally an audiophile edition, rightly assuming its cutting from CD, too bemoaning the lack of analogue indicate and  'warmth' which volition no doubtfulness result.  This is a hilarious notion when you lot consider the master top dog is a DAT tape, equally inward DIGITAL sound tape. As an aside, it was i of the outset productions past times an up-and-coming fella past times the hollo of Andy Sneap.

The sound indicate is basically this: 1101011000100101010010110101101010  ( the  01011101001 chip is my fave part) then to pretend its an  analogue audiophile edition would live misleading.