Grateful Dead - The Warner Brothers Studio Albums - 1967 - 1970 - 24/96 & 16/44.1 - 180g 5LP Box Set - 2010FLAC | 24/96 & 16/44.1 | Stereo | 3.82 GB & 1.11 GB - 5% recovery Rapidshare | Hotfile | Classic Rock
“Lacquers Cut from the Original Analog Masters and Pressed on 180g Vinyl at RTI
Features the Original Mixes for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa for the First Time in Nearly 40 Years
Limited Edition Hard-Shell Box Contains 12" x 12" Book with New, Insightful Liner Notes
Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Song-Based, Era-Defining Roots Landmarks Workingman's Dead and American Beauty
At last. One of the most sorely neglected catalogs in music history has finally received the sonic upgrade it's long deserved, and the results are as heavenly as Jerry Garcia's mellifluous guitar tones. The analog refurbishment involves two of the most beloved rustic classics ever made, a high-flying debut, and a pair of experimental mind-benders.
Between 1967 and 1970, the Grateful Dead recorded five studio albums for Warner Bros. Records that formed the psychedelic and folk-rock canon on which the band’s live legend was built. The albums spotlighted the early core lineup of Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart. Grateful Dead and Rhino are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the soulful roots masterpieces Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty with The Warner Bros. Studio Albums, a five-LP boxed set that also contains The Grateful Dead (1967) plus the original mixes for the adventurous Anthem Of The Sun (1968) and Aoxomoxoa (1969), available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Meticulously produced, the attractive set offers detailed replicas of the original albums housed in a hard-shell case that protects and stores the music with an accompanying 12" x 12" book including unpublished photos and new liner notes by band expert Blair Jackson. To ensure the highest degree of quality, the albums were pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI using lacquers cut from the original analog masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.
Always sticklers for sonic quality, these pressings match the band's exacting standards by presenting the Dead's unique miasma of rock, psychedelia, folk, country, jug-band, jazz, bluegrass, and blues music on a tremendous soundstage replete with previously unheard transparency, dynamics, warmth, balance, presence, and tonality. The amounts of newfound detail and information are positively mind-blowing (the stripped-back Workingman's Dead and American Beauty now radiate with acoustic woodiness, defined body, harmonic truth, and you-are-there realism), as are the full-scale restorations of Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa.
The original mixes for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa, featured here for the first time since they were released, went out of circulation in 1972 and 1971 respectively. Garcia and Lesh revisited Aoxomoxoa two years after its release in an effort to cut through the dense mix, a result of the band’s extensive experimenting in the studio with one of the first 16-track recorders. The overhaul changed the album’s sound significantly, including the end of “Doin’ That Rag,” which originally closed with an a cappella vocal coda that was later removed. Longtime fans and newbies alike will relish what they hear.
Don't pass up on this incredible set. Music lovers will be talking about this one for a long time. Discover why those in the know realize that the Dead's talents weren't just limited to the stage and why their early studio recording are closet audiophile classics.”
 Recording ProcedureRecorded using a Linn Sondek LP12 turntable,
Origin Live power supply,
Linn Ittok LVII tonearm,
Goldring 1042 MM Cartridge,
into Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 Special Edition Phono Stage
Chord Cobra 3 Interconnect
to Edirol R-09HR @ 24bit / 96kHz wav
WaveLab6 for track splitting
Adobe Audition 3.0 for manual click removal
No need for Click Repair, as these are excellent pressings with only a very few minor clicks :D
iZotope RX advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering to 16bit / 44.1kHz
Traders Little Helper > fix sbe > flac
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