A Excellent Circle have introduced a pair of distinct vinyl repressings of Mer De Noms, celebrating the Twenty fifth anniversary of the seminal album.
The primary vinyl version drops September Twenty fifth and is a “zoetrope” 2-LP image disc. Both sides options considered one of 4 animations created from the album’s distinctive glyphs, photos from the band’s unique photograph session that includes the album lineup (Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese, Paz Lenchantin, and Troy Van Leeuwen), clips from the David Fincher-directed “Judith” video, and a hypnotizing show of the band’s emblem.
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Audiophiles could be extra inclined to attend for the October tenth launch of the one-step DSS (Definitive Sound Sequence) 2-LP black vinyl urgent, which is restricted to three,000 hand-numbered copies. This version was pressed at RTI and was mastered by Levi Seltz (Metallica, Inexperienced Day) from hi-res 96kHz/24bit audio sourced from analog flat masters.
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Searching down these analog masters was no small feat in line with Tom ‘Grover’ Biery, producer of the Definitive Sound Sequence reissues. Biery shared the next backstory on the urgent, providing an fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the high-end vinyl reissue trade:
“Dozens of emails and late-night cellphone calls occurred to seek out the definitive audio supply for “Mer de Noms”
There are a number of analog tapes with totally different mixes, totally different songs on a number of reels, some clearly marked as “grasp” however not one we may definitively name ‘the supply’
Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering (Inexperienced Day, Linkin Park, Metallica, Pearl Jam) lower the primary lacquer and we had check pressings made. After we listened again they have been extremely quiet as you’ll anticipate of D2 vinyl , the underside finish by no means sounded higher BUT one thing was lacking within the vocals / mids… the place have been these?
Again we went to the archivist. We gave the specifics as we thought this One Step may very well be even higher! He stored digging and located the audio supply we used, within a workstation at Capitol Information.
Levi had observed the urgent followers appeared to love most was a 2020 reissue from a lacquer lower by Capitol mastering engineer Ron McMaster (RM) again in 2008. We couldn’t imagine our archive companion had discovered that vinyl grasp in hello res at 96/24 for us!
However that wasn’t even the tip. Levi had Ron’s cellphone quantity who’s now retired and referred to as him to see if he recalled that session. He did and the most effective he may recall was he complied reducing reels from analog tape – then did the digital switch himself.
After which returned the precise songs again onto their unique place on the general reels.
That’s the intention of DSS One-Steps- to create the definitive sounding model of the recordings we launch.
It typically takes dozens of conversations and dozens of hours to perform that aim… and typically – you simply gotta maintain digging.”
In the meantime, information of the vinyl repressings comes as APC preps for a pair of US pageant appearances on September twentieth at Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky, and October third at Aftershock in Sacramento. Get tickets right here.
You’ll be able to pre-order the zoetrope vinyl urgent by way of APC’s web site, and the one-step DSS urgent by way of Capitol. Take a look at product photos beneath.
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