Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue ACETATE Sterling Sound DIFF TRACK ORDER #1

$

381

Rare, one of a kind Rolling Stones acetate of the Emotional Rescue LP with completely different track order. This acetate has some pretty serious condition issues, but I'm guessing that it might still have significant value as an object/collectors item.

This acetate has some pretty serious condition issues. It's hard to tell what's a scratch and where it's just the acetate degrading, but there are a number of what seem like scratches (See photos) 

I played the disc once to play grade it. 

Side A - The beginning of side A does not play. I placed the need in about the middle of the first track and it did play through with a significant number of pops and clicks. At the end of Side A the needle jumped back into the grooves about a half a song.

Side B -  The beginning of side B also does not play. I placed the need in about the middle of the first track and it did play through with a even more pops and clicks than side A. I would consider side B unlistenable. 

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An acetate disc, also known as a test acetate, dubplate (a term from Jamaican reggae culture, now also applied to individually recorded discs of solid plastic), lacquer (a technically correct term preferred by engineers in the recording industry), transcription disc (a special recording intended for, or made from, a radio broadcast) or instantaneous disc (because it can be played immediately after recording without any further processing), is a type of phonograph (gramophone) record, a mechanical sound storage medium, widely used from the 1930s to the late 1950s for recording and broadcast purposes and still in limited use today.

Unlike ordinary vinyl records, which are quickly formed from lumps of plastic by a mass-production molding process, a so-called acetate disc is created by using a recording lathe to cut an audio-signal-modulated groove into the surface of a special lacquer-coated blank disc, a real-time operation requiring expensive, delicate equipment and expert skill for good results. They are made for special purposes, almost never for sale to the general public. They can be played on any normal record player but will suffer from wear more quickly than vinyl. Some acetates are highly prized for their rarity, especially when they contain unpublished material.

Acetates are usually made by dubbing from a master recording in another medium, such as magnetic tape. In the vinyl record manufacturing process, an acetate master disc is cut and electroforming is used to make negative metal molds from it; each mold, known as a stamper, can be used to press thousands of vinyl copies of the master. Within the vinyl record industry, acetates are also used for evaluating the quality of the tape-to-disc transfer. They were once a favored medium for comparing different takes or mixes of a recording, and if pressed vinyl copies of an impending new release were not yet available, acetates were used for getting preview copies into the hands of important radio disc jockeys.

On Jun-29-17 at 19:48:37 PDT, seller added the following information:

I accidentally uploaded the same pictures for both Emotional Rescue Acetates (I have 2 up for auction). I uploaded the correct ones for this one but it won't let me delete the old ones as there's already been bidding. But the first 4 photos should be the correct ones now. Sorry for the confusion.

On Jun-29-17 at 19:56:22 PDT, seller added the following information:

Actually, it won't let me change the order of the photos either - so it's the last 4 photos that are correct. The ones that say "Side 1" and "Side 2", not the ones that say "Side A" and "Side "B". Hope that clears everything up. Sorry again for the confusion!