Acoustic Sounds Catalog Update
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Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to announce the newest incarnation of titles to be pressed at 45 RPM on 200-gram vinyl. Ladies and gentlemen: The Doors! Additionally, these will also be available on Multichannel Hybrid SACD. The Doors Strange Days Waiting For The Sun Soft Parade Morrison Hotel L.A. Woman AAPP 74007-45 AAPP 74014-45 AAPP 74024-45 AAPP 75005-45 AAPP 75007-45 AAPP 75011-45 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) (two 45-RPM LPs) Multichannel Hybrid Multichannel Hybrid Multichannel Hybrid No SACD available No SACD available Multichannel Hybrid SACD SACD SACD for this title for this title SACD CAPP 74007 SA CAPP 74014 SA CAPP 74024 SA CAPP 75011 SA $30.00 $30.00 $30.00 $30.00 Cut from the original analog masters by Doug Sax, with the exception of The Doors, which was made from the best tape copy. Sax and Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick went through a meticulous setup to guarantee a positively stunning reissue series. This is an all-tubes process. These masters were recorded on tube equipment and the tape machine used for transfer for these releases is a tube machine, as is the cutting system. Tubes, baby! A truly authentic reissue project. Also available: Mr. Mojo Risin’: The Doors By The Doors The Story Of L.A. Woman The Doors by The Doors – a Featuring exclusive interviews with Ray huge, gorgeous volume in which Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger the band tells its own story – is colleagues and collaborators, exclusive per- now available. Stuffed with nev- formance, archive footage and examination er-before-seen photos, revealing of the original multi track recording tapes interviews and more, this stunning Blu-Ray DVD with Producer Bruce Botnick, this film will book will be manna for Doors fans. CELE 39396 - $19.98 tell the amazing story of this landmark al- 286 pages. Standard DVD bum by one of the most influential bands on Book - L BK 25 - $44.95 CELE 39396 - $14.98 the planet. WWWACOUSTICSOUNDSCOM s Dear Customer, FEATURES You know, in many ways this might be the most exciting catalog I’ve ever brought to you. There are just so many enormous things going on at Acoustic Sounds right 02 Acoustic Sounds Move now. It almost makes me dizzy thinking of how much has happened just since last 04 Quality Record Pressings year’s holiday catalog. I’ll try to touch on a few here, and of course you can learn a lot more in the following pages. NEW MUSIC 2-60 The last time I wrote you we were on the verge of moving the entire Acoustic Sounds operation. Well, we’ve done it, tripling in size. We’re now in three buildings, 08 LPs totaling 70,000 square feet. We’ve got a 30,000 square-foot warehouse, a 20,000 15 Verve Reissues square-foot office and then a 21,000 square-foot building that’s the home to our 13 Impulse Reissues brand new Quality Record Pressings. Read all about the move on page 2. 44 New Music 64 SACDs The launch of Quality Record Pressings (QRP) is easily the most exciting business 72 Prestige Reissues news I’ve shared since I opened Blue Heaven Studios in 1997. Getting this pressing 74 Best of Box Sets plant up and running has been an unbelievable process. Truly unbelievable. But 134 Last Minute Additions we’ve done it, and, man, are the results proving to be worth the efforts. You just can’t believe the quality of records that are coming off of these presses. The re- EQUIPMENT 52-133 viewers are freaking out. Customers are calling and writing with their amazement. It’s just been awesome to come out of the gates so hot. Read about QRP on page 4 52 Turntables and find much more at www.qualityrecordpressings.com. 84 Cartridges Of course, the very first title we pressed at QRP was our Analogue Productions 90 Cartridge Comparison Guide reissue of Cat Stevens’ Tea For The Tillerman. This thing is absolutely smoking, and 92 Record Cleaners guys like Michael Fremer and Marc Mickelson have said the same. Check out the 94 Phono Preamps story inside the back cover. 97 Preamps Then you’ve got all our new Verve titles – a reissue series of 25 LPs, all pressed 98 Integrated Amps at QRP. You’ve got the Muddy Waters Folk Singer, the Dusty Springfield Dusty In 101 Tube Integrated Amps Memphis, the Tony Joe White Homemade Ice Cream, the Jimmy Witherspoon and 102 Power Amps Ben Webster Roots, the three new Ray Charles titles, the Ben Webster Gentle Ben, 104 Digital Audio our new APO direct to discs and on and on. Really, it does go on an on. All pressed 106 Speakers at QRP. And next we’re coming out with 50 new cherry-picked records from the 110 Headphones Prestige label – 25 monos and 25 stereos. Read all about it on page 72. Oh yeah, 114 Headphone Amps and the Doors. Ever heard of them? Just before we went to press with this catalog, 115 iPod Audio I got word that we’d scored the rights to reissue from the original master tapes all 116 Line Conditioners six of the Doors albums at 45 RPM as well as four on SACD! Check it out inside the 119 ISO Devices front cover. 121 System Setup But we’re more than just vinyl. In fact, we’ve got easily our biggest SACD reissue 124 Record Cleaning ever with Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here sourced from the original master tapes 128 Record Accessories and mixed by Floyd producer/engineer James Guthrie for 5.1 surround as well as 128 Record Storage hybrid stereo. This one is just beyond exciting. It’s a landmark reissue for Analogue 131 Books Productions. Read all about it on page 65. 132 DVDs Like I said, it’s crazy how much big news there is to share. I’ve run out of space, but 1SJDFTMJTUFEJOUIJTDBUBMPHBSFTVCKFDU there’s so much more I could tell you about. You’ll UPDIBOHFXJUIPVUOPUJDF have to dig for yourselves. It’s all in here. So, give us a call. We can recommend. We can answer questions. And of course you can do it all online anytime at www.acousticsounds.com. *"Ê ÝÊ£äxÊUÊ->>]Ê-ÊÈÇ{äÓÊ ÜÜÜ°>VÕÃÌVÃÕ`ðVÊ Our office hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays / *" \ÊÇnx®ÊnÓxnÈäÊUÊ8\ÊÇnx®ÊnÓxä£xÈÊ and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays (CST). Sincerely, Chad Kassem Acoustic Sounds, Inc. CEO 1 Six years ago, almost to the day, we wrote this same story. The one about how we had moved – tripled in size. How we’d finally found our permanent home, our last stop. We had outgrown our 6,000-square-foot ware- house and had moved into 18,00 square feet – a space that at the time felt so massive we were sure we’d never need to move again. And so we wrote a story, and in it we said, “And so here we are with no expectations to 2 move again…We’re not going anywhere anytime soon.” Is six years soon? It sure feels like it. As it was, we filled And no longer will the warehouse have to share space those 18,000 square feet in half that time. Just like be- with the offices. The pencil pushers have their own build- fore the previous four moves, records and boxes start- ing – 20,000 square feet of building. Almost all of our ed to stack in some pretty strange places. And so here office staff now enjoys the luxury of their own office, and we are, fresh off a full-tilt, all-hands-on-deck move – to we’ve even got a few empty ones in case of new hires. 70,000 square feet! Yup, we’ve nearly quadrupled our size. 70,000 square feet! The idea that 6,000 square feet But what’s most exciting is what’s behind door number held our whole company as recently as six years ago is three: Quality Record Pressing. That’s right, Acous- just hilarious for us to think about now. At the rate we’re tic Sounds has begun a state-of-the-art record press- going, we might have bathrooms that size in the next ing plant. We’ve found the absolute best presses ever place. made, hired the industry’s top professionals and given them free reign to implement no-expense-spared inno- So, what are we going to do with 70,000 square feet? vations. That’s what’s happening in the other 20,000 Let’s have a look. square feet. Acoustic Sounds, Inc. is now housed in three separate buildings, all across the street from one another. First, So that’s the word from here – our sixth Acoustic Sounds we’ve got a 30,000 square foot dedicated warehouse. location. From a two-bedroom apartment to a four-bed- That means 30,000 square feet of inventory – vinyl, room ranch-style house to a downtown storefront to a CDs, stereo equipment and more vinyl. Oh, and more 6,000-square-foot warehouse to an 18,000-square-foot vinyl after that. This warehouse is nearly the length of a former grocery store to this. city block – the long side of the block.