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 Original  US Atlantic label pressing , SD-8236 with 1841 Broadway New York address

 

DESCRIPTION

All items are original pressings , no bootlegs or CDrs unless noted.

"RL" in deadwax on both sides.

The textbook example of good mastering gone bad is the 1969 Atlantic Records release of Led Zeppelin II. The first pressing, mastered by a young , beats every other pressing and reissue by a wide margin. This record is easily identified by scanning the matrix, a product code located in the run-out area next to the label. There, etched in the dead wax are the letters “RL/SS,” shorthand for Robert Ludwig/Sterling Sound. Known among dealers as the “hot mix,” it has such energy and dynamic range that when it was released it caused the needles on cheap record players to literally jump out of the grooves. This happened when Ahmet Ertegun, the president of Atlantic Records, brought a copy home to his daughter. Judging the record defective, he immediately ordered a new pressing with the signal dialed down and compressed. Ludwig would later lament that this version “”

Matrices side 1-ST-A-691671 MO  CC  RL SS LW(SIDEWAYS) A13933 W AT  SIDE 2-1-ST-A-691672 MO  CC  LW(SIDEWAYS) RL SS  A13933 W AT

 PLAYED BOTH SIDES AND IT PLAYS BEAUIFULLY ;;Occasional pop and crackle..but no skips or jumps etc

Condition

RECORD/CD-to VG+

COVER/insert-VG+

EXTRAS-

 

PAYMENT

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