SEALED Beach Boys - Pet Sounds DCC Audiophile Steve Hoffman Vinyl Record LP RARE
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Description
An incredibly rare SEALED copy of the 1995 Steve Hoffman DCC Audiophile 180 gram mono pressing of "Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys.
It is in perfect condition with the exception of a very small corner bump, which is pictured.
This is often considered the best vinyl pressing of the album.
Here are some notes from Steve Hoffman regarding the remaster:
The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds (DCC Gold Disc)
It's a flawed recording. The music tracks were all bumped down to one track of an 8-track, and then the voices were added, and there's a lot of distortion and there's a lot of extra bass that they obviously liked. Brian Wilson liked it, they were listening on those Altec monitors. They don't really have that much bass so it sounded just right to them. I tried removing some of it. I tried doing the same thing the Capitol engineers tried to do when they did their CD version of it: add some top end or add some of this or that... and nothing worked. So then one day I was just playing back the tape, and I thought, "It sounds great just like this. I'm going to do it straight." So I just transferred it straight... the only change I did was I made sure that the levels of each song were matching each other, because a lot of them were mixed at a different time. One song had a level peak at +4 and one had a level peak at -3, so I just made the inherent volume of each of the songs closer together. That's all I had to do, but it took months in order to get there! It wasn't one of my favorite albums until I started working on it. Had that album when I was a kid, and it was in fake stereo and I couldn't really hear anything, and it was just weird. I said, "God, this album isn't very good." But when I finally got to hear the tape I said, "This tape sounds like history being made." And if it's history being made, who am I to change history? So I'm just going to run this thing straight. It's not going to have as much top end as the regular CD, it's going to be hissier because they used No Noise and I would never do that. But mine sounds more musical, and I don't care what anybody says.
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