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Mastering Engineer Jon Astley on The Who 14 LP Box Set Coming From MCA
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 25, 2012
UMG/MCA recently announced a new 14 LP The Who studio recordings box set featuring 11 titles (Tommy and Quadrophenia were double LPs).
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Mastering in the Time of Covid-19
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020
"Tone Poet" Joe Harley sent this photo taken today at a Kevin Gray mastering session. Analog life goes on at Cohearent Audio during the Pandemic.

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Mat Test Will Include Original 96/24 File As "Baseline" Reference
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 06, 2014
Thanks to an analogplanet.com reader's excellent suggestion, the blind mat test will include the original 96/24 file from which the Chasing the Dragon LP was cut. Recording engineer and label owner Mike Valentine was kind enough to send the original file of the Vivaldi "Concerto For Two Mandolins" that was used for the mat recordings.

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Mats Unmasked!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 21, 2014
Thanks to all who downloaded and listened to the same track played using 8 different mats. That's a great deal of heavy lifting, hopefully made somewhat lighter by Mike Valentine's excellent Decca tree recording of a nimble performance of Vivaldi's "Concerto For 2 Mandolins". I hope you downloaded and enjoyed the "gift" track too.

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Meet Sophia Pfister
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 10, 2016
Instead of the usual "song and dance", the email refreshingly got directly to the point: "Will you review my record?". I replied, "Send it and if I like it I will."

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Mercury "Living Presence" Reissue Series Cut From 3-track Analog Masters From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 26, 2018
Tom Fine, re-mastering producer of the first two soon-to-be-released Analogue Productions Mercury "Living Presence" titles talks with AnalogPlanet editor Michael Fremer about the all-analog mastering process, with lacquers cut by Ryan K. Smith from the original 3 track master tapes.

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Merrill-Williams Audio Announces The R.E.A.L. 101.3 Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 20, 2018
Merrill-Williams Audio LLC of Memphis, Tennesseejust introduced the latest version of its celebrated R.E.A.L. turntable, the model 101.3. The R.E.A.L. 101.3 retains the essential elements of the 101 and 101.2 models while adding fundamental improvements.

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Metallica Secure Controlling Stake in Furnace Record Pressing, Ready to Expand the Scope of Their Blackened Recordings LP and Box Set Catalog
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 15, 2023

Subtitle this one, …And Vinyl for All. To wit: Metallica and Furnace Record Pressing have jointly announced that Metallica has acquired the majority interest in Furnace, a leading provider of high-quality vinyl and related services based in Alexandria, Virginia. Read on to see what the revised vinyl-oriented partnership entails, and how Furnace founder Eric Astor and Metallica co-founders Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield have to say about it. . .

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Michael Fremer "Presents" Pink Floyd's The Wall  at Classic Album Sunday Event
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 29, 2014
Classic Album Sundays, the spectacularly popular and successful world-wide vinyl album playback event phenomenon conceived of and produced by Colleen Murphy presents Pink Floyd's The Wall in its entirety at events in London, Oslo, Portland, Maine and Brooklyn, NY.

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Michael Fremer Makes the Cover of TONE Magazine
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 12, 2006

Musicangle editor drops trou!

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Mikey Does Video Podcast With Home Theater's Scott Wilkinson
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 14, 2012
Mikey cuts loose on the superiority of vinyl on this new video podcast using his unbelievably unflattering MacBook Pro camera. The chatroom digiphiles went crazy!
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Mikey Interviewed at ListenUp in Denver CO May 2012
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 27, 2012
I was in Colorado last month doing in-store appearances at audio dealer ListenUp. Events were held at their stores in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs.
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Mikey Interviewed on Jazz Station WBGO-FM For The New York Audio Show (and the subject turned to CDs)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 06, 2013
"WBGO Journal" host Doug Doyle (shown in the photo trying to grab a Mosaic box from my warm sweaty hands) interviewed me recently for his radio show on the great jazz, Newark, NJ radio station.

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Miles Davis Would Be 90 Years Old Today
Michael Fremer  |  May 26, 2016
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Miles Davis's Relaxin'  is Craft's Next "Small Batch" Release!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 13, 2022
Craft Records today announced Miles Davis’s Relaxin’ as the next “Small Batch” limited to 5000 copies release. The pre-sale launches Friday April 15th at 2:00 PST/5:00 EST on the “Small Batch” website.

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