FLEETWOOD MAC, Rumours **RARE Robert Ludwig Masterdisk** USA EXC- LP Audiophile

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Fleetwood Mac ‎– Rumours Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎– BSK 3010 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, TC, Winchester, RL  Country: US Released:   Genre: Rock Style: Soft Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Second Hand News Written-By – Lindsey Buckingham 2:43 A2 Dreams Written-By – Stevie Nicks 4:14 A3 Never Going Back Again Written-By – Lindsey Buckingham 2:02 A4 Don't Stop Written-By – Christine McVie 3:11 A5 Go Your Own Way Written-By – Lindsey Buckingham 3:38 A6 Songbird Written-By – Christine McVie 3:20 B1 The Chain Written-By – McVie*, McVie*, Buckingham*, Fleetwood*, Nicks* 4:28 B2 You Make Loving Fun Written-By – Christine McVie 3:31 B3 I Don't Want To Know Written-By – Stevie Nicks 3:11 B4 Oh Daddy Written-By – Christine McVie 3:54 B5 Gold Dust Woman Written-By – Stevie Nicks 4:51 Companies, etc. Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Published By – Gentoo Music, Inc. Published By – Now Sounds Music Published By – Welsh Witch Music Published By – Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. Recorded At – Record Plant, Sausalito Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles Recorded At – Wally Heider Recording Studio, Los Angeles Recorded At – Criteria Recording Studios Recorded At – Davlen Sound Studios Recorded At – Zellerbach Auditorium Mixed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles Mixed At – Sound City Studios Mastered At – Masterdisk Credits Artwork [Hand Lettering] – Larry Vigon, Vigon Nahas Vigon Bass – John McVie Crew [Studio Crew] – Jeff Jacobs, Ray Lindsey, Rhyno Design – Desmond Strobel Drums, Percussion – Mick Fleetwood Engineer – Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut Engineer [With] – Cris Morris*  Guitar, Vocals – Lindsey Buckingham Keyboards, Synthesizer, Vocals – Christine McVie Management – Seedy Management Mastered By – RL*  Photography By – Herbert Worthington*  Producer – Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut Vocals – Stevie Nicks Notes This version of the textured cover was pressed by Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester Some editions may include a 11.5" x 23" photo and lyric foldout insert. Recorded at: The Record Plant, Sausalito and Los Angeles, California  Wally Heider Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida Davlen Recording Studio, North Hollywood, California "Songbird" recorded at Zellerback Auditorium U.C. Berkeley, March 3rd, 1976 Mixed at: Sound City, Van Nuys, California and the Record Plant, Los Angeles, California © ℗1977 Warner Bros. Records, Inc. All compositions published by Gentoo Music, Inc. BMI except: A1, A3, A5 published by Gentoo Music, Inc./Now Sound Music BMI A2, B3, B5 published by Gentoo Music, Inc./Welsh Witch Music BMI B1 published by Gentoo Music, Inc./Now Sound Music/Welsh Witch Music BMI All compositions administered by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. for U.S. and Canda

USA ROBERT LUDWIG MASTERDISC PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN TEXTURED SLEEVE WITH LYRIC INSERT AND ORIGINAL POLY INNER SLEEVE.

There are many masterings of this classic album, the original first pressing being by Ken Perry at Capitol, clean originals of which are proving harder to come by now.  The other great mastering is the double 45 issue by Kevin Grey and Steve Hoffman, but that is cut from tired over-played master tapes, so is the best that can be achived in the 21st Century. 

This pressing is the early 1980s ultra-rare Robert Ludwig Masterdisk one that came after Ken Perry's but didn't really make it out much into the marketplace, and is hence fairly rare.  Fortunately, Ludwig was accessing original still-playable master tapes, and as usual with Ludwig, this is cut hot and has that amazing 'sound' he achieved with Led Zepellin II (alongside other LPs he has mastered down the years, especially his earlier Sterling Sound ones).   If you have a good system, this album will sound pretty amazing after all these years.

MATRIX:BSK-1-3010-WW2-FM test MASTERDISK RL . ──◁ / BSK-2-3010-WW15 ──◁.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  INSERT AND INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, JUST TWO OUTER EDGE FINGERPRINTS, LOOKS PLAYED ONCE IF THAT. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.

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