I want to respectfully correct one aspect of this.
I've got a friend who works at Bernie Grundman Mastering and we've discussed
the process of cutting vinyl at length. He says the test pressings of a
record are the absolute first copies to come off the lathe and therefore
will sound better than the rest of the copies because the master disc will
wear out after about 200 to 300 copies at which point they've got to get
another copy from the acetate.
My point being, the test pressings will sound superior to most of the other
copies (commercially available or promos) which may explain why my 3 12" set
of Meat Beat's Original Fire has an overwhelming amount of distortion on it.
End of line. Brian.
quoted 8 lines As for why they are "special", that's a harder question to answer. I
>
>As for why they are "special", that's a harder question to answer. I
>mean, if something is a test pressing, then that literally means that this
>pressing could have an inferior sound to the cheaper, subsequent, more
>attractive official release to follow. Then again, sometimes the official
>release never comes out.. therefore rendering the test pressing or promo
>items as the *only* way to get a first generation copy of a hot track.
>
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