BUT FOR THIS OFFERING IT IS A HUGE UNDER STATEMENT. STERLING SOUND NYC MASTERING LAB SINGLE SIDED ACETATES COMPLETE SET OF 6 & THE MATCHING MCA TEST PRESSINGS COMPLETE SET. ON OFFER IS A COMPLETE SET OF 6 SINGLE SIDED LACQUERS. THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL ACETATES FROM THE TOP MASTERING LAB ON THE PLANET. Founded in NYC in the late 1960s the airwaves at Sterling Sound have resonated with the music of everyone from Bob Dylan to Beyonce. Sterling is the most influential mastering house of our day and at any given time, 30% of the American charts are likely to include Sterling masters. Their engineer lists boasts some the biggest names in the industry, including guys like Ted Jensen, Greg Calbi, Tom Coyne, and the late George Marino. Mastering rockstar Bob Ludwig was even president for a time. MAYBE THE ONLY SET OF THE HENDRIX / BBC SESSIONS ACETATES THAT EXISTS. I CAN NOT GUARANTEE THAT BUT I HAVE FOUND NO OTHER EXAMPLES (EVEN PARTIAL) OF THIS SET EITHER FOR SALE OR MENTIONED IN ANY WEB SEARCH AND. MCA POLICY WAS TO DESTROY ALL UNUSED OR REJECT LACQUERS. THE ONLY REASON THESE EXIST IS BECAUSE THE PRODUCER. RETAINED THIS COMPLETE SET. ALSO INCLUDED IS A COMPLETE MCA TEST PRESSING SET. THESE REPRESENT THE VERY FIRST PRESSINGS FROM THE STAMPER PLATES. 6 SINGLE SIDED STERLING SOUND NYC MASTERING LAB. ACETATES / LACQUERS PLUS RELATED MCA / STERLING PAPERWORK. 3 MCA LP TEST PRESSINGS. WHICH I HAVE SET UP WITH THE CORRECT ALBUM JACKET AND BOOKLET. THE STERLING SOUND PAPERWORK (VINYL LACQUERS APPROVAL) IS ADDRESSED DIRECTLY TO THE MCA PRODUCER ANDY MCKAIE. Al Album award for’The Complete Chess Masters’ in the press room during the 52nd Annual. Producer Andy McKaie poses with Best Historical Album award for’The Complete Chess Masters’ in the press room during the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Reissue compiler and producer Andy McKaie. Has an impressive list of accomplishments. As vice president of catalog development and A&R for Universal Music Special Markets, he has supervised critically acclaimed reissues taken from the massive MCA Records catalog which includes the catalogs of Chess Records, Don Robey. S Duke-Peacock Records, ABC Records, and Decca Records, among many others. The Flushing, NY, native moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1981. His career includes working as a rock critic and a publicist. In 1986, he was hired to oversee MCA’s reissue department. Preferring to work from the original stereo two-track masters, McKaie. Has won two Grammy Awards: Reissue Producer of the Year for Chuck Berry. S The Chess Box. And Reissue Co-Producer of the Year for Billie Holiday. S The Complete Decca Recordings. Was also instrumental in reissuing long out of print recordings by blues legend B. Related releases from the’90s are Outside Looking In: The Best of the Gin Blossoms. (October 1999), Gladys Knight’s Essential Collection. (September 1999), Alfred Hitchcock Presents Signatures in Suspense. (July 1999), Patsy Cline’s 20th Century Masters. (July 1999), Best of Patti Labelle: 20th Century Masters. (April 1999), Louis Armstrong’s All Time Greatest Hits. The Very Best of Rufus & Chaka Khan. The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd. Etta James Her Best. King’s Greatest Hits. (MCA), The Mamas & the Papas’ Greatest Hits. Uptown Rulin': The Best of the Neville Brothers. And the CD reissue of the soundtrack of the 1971 Gene Wilder. Children’s movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In 1999, he became Senior Vice President of A&R for Universal Music Enterprises where he co-created and developed the. 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection. In 2010 he was awarded the Keeping the Blues Alive Producer Award from Memphis Blues Foundation. FOR MORE ON ACETATES AND ON HOW RECORDS ARE MADE PLEASE CHECK OUT THE INFO BELOW. Producing an acetate record or more accurately a lacquer coated disc: The acetate is an intermediate stage prior to the production of the master disc and is used for test purposes to assess the sound transfer from the master tapes to vinyl. If a sound or mix is rejected then the acetate pressed has the potential to be a unique item as there are never many copies of acetates produced, usually no more than 10 and as such are highly sought after. The acetate is usually an aluminium disc that is covered in a thin coating of nitrocellulose lacquer that has the sound groove, from the master tape, cut into it using a “lathe”. They come in various sizes including 7″, 10″, 12″ and 14″. To the left shows the cutting head on the lathe, which is like a record player needle but in reverse. The sound is passed through the sapphire cutting stylus which etches the soft lacquer, by moving up and down, left and right, tracing out an exact waveform representation of the music. The lacquer is soft and thin and repeated playing of the acetate will degredate the sound. They are manufactured for one purpose and that is for quality control and not repeated playing. Next is the plating and pressing processes. At the pressing plant, stampers (or plates) have to be created from the acetates. Each acetate is coated with a thin layer of silver nitrate and washed in stannous chloride which is then electro-plated with nickel. Once this has set the two are seperated and the plate produced will be a negative of the acetate with ridges instead of grooves. This plate is called the “father plate” or the “master plate”, which is then oxidised, plated again and when set the two discs are seperated, this time producing a “mother plate”. The “mother plate” is an exact replica of the lacquer acetate that was originally brought into the plant and is used to check for any errors in the plating process. From this “mother plate” further “father plates” are created using the above process and these plates are known as the stamper plates as they are the ones that press the actual records out. This lengthy process is gone through as the stamper plates wear out after so many pressings and with having a metal “mother plate” on the shelf this enables as many “father plates” to be pressed as required. The item “JIMI HENDRIX BBC STERLING SOUND ACETATE SET & MCA TEST PRESSING VINYL LP SET” is in sale since Wednesday, December 2, 2015. This item is in the category “Music\Records”. The seller is “charmalee3″ and is located in Calabasas, California. This item can be shipped to United States, all countries in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia.
- Record Label: STERLING SOUND / MCA
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Special Attributes: 180 – 220 gram
