THE DOORS - 45 RPM 200g 2LP NEW/SEALED-GATEFOLD ANALOGUE PRODUCTION - SHIPS FREE

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The Doors ‎– The Doors - NEW/SEALED 200g 45 RPM - 2XLP - SHIPS FAST & FREE

Label:  Analogue Productions ‎– APP 74007-45, Elektra ‎– EKS-74007

Format:  2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, 200 gram 

Country:  US

Released:  2012

Genre:  Rock

Style:  Psychedelic Rock

Mastered by Doug Sax using an all-tube system. Overseen by Bruce Botnick, The Doors producer/engineer.

Two 45 rpm LPs pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings

The Doors self-titled 1967 release famously contains some incorrect speed and pitch issues. While there have been "corrected" versions made, in the interests of being historically accurate, this Analogue Productions reissue was cut without speed or pitch correction.

"... To be honest, these are better than I ever dreamed rock music from the sixties could sound. I want to thank everyone at Analogue Productions for bringing me such sweet sounds from some of my favorite music ever. My highest recommendation!" — Jack Roberts, dagogo.com, September 2012

One of rock music’s most famous debuts, The Doors self-titled 1967 smash is legend. And now it becomes the kick-off for a positively stunning reissue series from Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings!

A truly authentic reissue project, the masters were recorded on tube equipment, and the tape machine used for the transfer of these releases is a tube machine, as is the cutting system. Tubes baby!

This is no time to wallow in the mire. The Doors are on Analogue Productions!

Technical notes about the recording process by Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick:

"Throughout the record history of the Doors, the goal between Paul Rothchild and myself was to be invisible, as the Doors were the songwriters and performers. Our duty was to capture them in the recorded medium without bringing attention to ourselves. Of course, the Doors were very successful, and Paul and I did receive some acclaim, which we did appreciate.

"If you listen to all the Doors albums, no attempt was made to create sounds that weren't generated by the Doors, except for the Moog Synthesizer on Strange Days, although that was played live in the mix by Jim, but that's another story. The equipment used was very basic, mostly tube consoles and microphones. Telefunken U47, Sony C37A, Shure 56. The echo used was from real acoustic echo chambers and EMT plate reverb units. In those days, we didn't have plug-ins or anything beyond an analogue eight-track machine. All the studios that we used, except for Elektra West, had three Altec Lansing 604E loudspeakers, as that was the standard in the industry, three-track. On EKS-74007, The Doors, we used four-track Ampex recorders.  Everything was analogue, digital was just a word. We didn't use fuzz tone or other units like that but created the sounds organically.

"When mastering for the 45-RPM vinyl release, we were successfully able to bake the original master tapes and play them to cut the lacquer masters."

- Bruce Botnick, July 2012

"...the amount of detail and space produced here is superior to any version of this that I've heard save for the Elektra original, which is serious competition though good luck finding a clean quiet one. Even then the 45rpm cut's spaciousness, dynamics and bass power and particularly the overall sound on what are the inner tracks on the original LP are better on the double 45 cut using an all vacuum tube chain just as was the original...The double 45 has greater dynamics, detail, spaciousness and appropriate grit - everything the smooooth 192k/24 bit sourced version lacks...Definitely on my recommended list and the Quality Record Pressings vinyl is superb." Music = 9/11; Sound = 9/11 - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, July 2012

"... Kassem has once again (as with the Impulse 45 RPM series) met the highest of expectations with these (album) covers. The 180 gram platters, housed in QRP rice paper sleeves, are equally impressive, arriving clean, flat and playing silently with nary a pop or tic throughout ... this dead quiet, ultra-dynamic pressing showcases the epic ("The End") bringing out low level detail that simply can't be heard on the already fantastic-sounding Monarch pressing original. ... This 45 RPM pressing gives up none of the emotion or midrange complexity of the original and forces none of the overly tight bass sometimes heard on audiophile reissues in the process. ... This is as good as an audiophile reissue can get and I give it my highest recommendation." — My Vinyl Review

Tracklist

A1

Break On Through (To The Other Side)

2:25

A2

Soul Kitchen

3:30

A3

The Crystal Ship

2:30

A4

Twentieth Century Fox

2:30

B1

Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

Written-By – Brecht*, Weill*

3:15

B2

Light My Fire

6:50

C1

Back Door Man

Written-By – C. Burnett*, W. Dixon*

3:30

C2

I Looked At You

2:18

C3

End Of The Night

2:49

C4

Take It As It Comes

2:13

D1

The End

11:35

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Doors Music Company
• Copyright (c) – Doors Music Company
• Pressed By – Quality Record Pressings
• Manufactured By – Rhino Entertainment Company
• Recorded At – Sunset Sound Recorders
• Mastered At – The Mastering Lab

Credits

• Art Direction, Design – William S. Harvey
• Directed By [Production Supervisor] – Jac Holzman
• Drums – John Densmore
• Engineer – Bruce Botnick
• Executive-Producer [Analogue Productions Reissue] – Chad Kassem
• Guitar – Robby Krieger
• Mastered By [Analogue Productions Reissue] – Doug Sax, Sangwook "Sunny" Nam*
• Organ, Piano, Bass – Ray Manzarek
• Photography By [Back Cover] – Joel Brodsky
• Photography By [Front Cover] – Guy Webster
• Producer – Paul A. Rothchild
• Supervised By [Production Supervisor] – Bruce Botnick, Jeff Jampol*
• Vocals – Jim Morrison