Peter Gabriel's 1st Four LPs on Half Speed 45 rpms

Posted by: FangfossFlyer on 28 July 2015

From Peter's website:

 

Peter Gabriel's first four   self-titled solo albums available once again
  on Double Heavyweight Vinyl from   2 October 2015.
   Half Speed Remastered - 45RPM

 

 

Peter Gabriel’s first four self-titled solo albums are being
made available on vinyl for the first time since 2002. Also being
re-issued are the long out-of-print German vocal versions of Peter
Gabriel’s third (Ein Deutsches Album) and fourth (Deutsches Album)
records.

The first three releases are affectionately known as Car, Scratch and
Melt due to their iconic Hipgnosis designed covers. The fourth was
named Security for the American market on its initial release. 

  
   

All the albums have been     Half-Speed Remastered and cut to lacquers at 45RPM, across two heavyweight     180g LPs to deliver maximum dynamic sound range. These records have really     never sounded so good - pretty much as close to listening to the original     master tape as it's possible to get.
   
    The vinyl was cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony     Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter’s main sound engineer Richard     Chappell. 

   

 These vinyl editions will be gatefold sleeves, utilising imagery from
the initial first LP pressings, sourced and re-scanned from original artwork.


Each English language album comes as a limited edition of 10,000 Worldwide
(German versions limited to 3,000 Worldwide). All are individually numbered.

Albums include download cards with a choice of digital download (Hi-Res
24-bit/96k or 16-bit/44.1k).

 
Posted on: 28 July 2015 by Quad 33

Bundles apper to be sold out ,did manage to pre order "CAR" for 2nd October release.

 

Graham.

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by Premmyboy

As well as the originals I also bought the classic records issues a while back in gatefold sleeves. Enough is enough!!

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by Lunicycle

Bundles back in stock in website now.

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by Premmyboy

Just read that these are apparently from a high res digital source. Be interesting to compare to an original copy or even the classic records which were all analogue.

Posted on: 28 July 2015 by J.N.

If the much vaunted 45 rpm double-vinyl reissue of Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' is anything to go by; these PG reissues will sound inferior to original vinyl releases.

 

A marketing exercise - as ever. Nada for the audiophile who has original vinyl as I do. Hi-Res? Yeah; right.

 

John.

Posted on: 29 July 2015 by naim_nymph

Looking at the vimeo - an engineer states [like he believes it] that newer released remasters are a whole new level higher than original vinyl... LOL! he will find a lot who disagree with him about that!

He goes on to say these new half speed masters are an even higher level above the remasters... Well i suppose they may or may not be, but these are pre-orders so no one has heard them yet.

Looks like a pre-orderist money grab to pay for the operation but IMO it don't bode well, just leaves me suspicious.

 

Debs

Posted on: 29 July 2015 by hungryhalibut

I'm most confused - from the thread title I was wondering how anyone would play a 22.5 RPM album.

Posted on: 29 July 2015 by J.N.

Yes indeed Debs.

 

"He goes on to say these new half speed masters are an even higher level above the remasters..."

 

Which were clearly inferior to the original issues.

 

John.

Posted on: 30 July 2015 by King Size
Originally Posted by Premmyboy:

Just read that these are apparently from a high res digital source. Be interesting to compare to an original copy or even the classic records which were all analogue.

Not that it really matters but  I'm sure PG4 is a full digital recording - my original CD pressing certainly makes that claim. 

 

Either way way I reckon I'll stick with my original LPs that still sound awesome!

Posted on: 30 July 2015 by Martin M

I believe 4 was an analogue recording. There's a South Bank Show on its recording and you can see the sessions being recorded on a Studer 24 track. Originally they may well have mixed down to PCM1610 and Analogue. The Classic Record issues from a few years back were made from the analogue tapes (I'd be surprised in the 1610 tape even played now). BTW IMO the Classics were clearly superior to the original issues.

Posted on: 30 July 2015 by King Size
Originally Posted by Martin M:

I believe 4 was an analogue recording. There's a South Bank Show on its recording and you can see the sessions being recorded on a Studer 24 track. Originally they may well have mixed down to PCM1610 and Analogue. The Classic Record issues from a few years back were made from the analogue tapes (I'd be surprised in the 1610 tape even played now). BTW IMO the Classics were clearly superior to the original issues.

Thanks for the tip, have found the South Bank Show you refer to online and will watch it later.  I notice that PG's website also refers to it "as Peter’s first fully digital recording"

 

http://petergabriel.com/release/peter-gabriel-4/

 

So there may well be some stretching of the truth somewhere.

 

 

Posted on: 30 July 2015 by King Size

Have finished watched part one and see what you mean about the Studer tape machine.  The plot thickens...