![]() ![]() ![]() Vincent Bank Building, James Street, Kingstown, St. I know when Bruce Swedien and Quincy Jones tell the story they say “test pressing”, but unless there was more time passing before the listening session, this detail just doesn’t make sense. On the other hand, doing a test cut only takes as long as the music plays and it’s a common thing a mastering studio like Bernie Grundman’s would have been able to do back then, for a quick “how it sounds on vinyl”-preview. That’s definitly not possible to do within a few hours. ![]() Doing a vinyl pressing is an elaborate process which takes at least 2 days, first doing a proper 14″ lacquer cut, creating the metallic pressing stampers from that via electroplating, letting the hot pressed vinyl cool off slowly so it won’t warp, etc. ![]() It must have been a test CUT (aka ‘acetate’, ‘dubplate’). If the story is correct about only a few hours passing between Bruce Swedien doing the first album master at Bernie Grundman’s mastering studio and the “official album listening session” with the managers etc… Then what they listened to there can’t have been a test PRESSING. May I add a bit of vinyl geek info regarding 1:33:00…. ![]()
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