Tape transfer

Test press approval

Jacket print

Dispatch

Pulling uncompressed 30ips masters from the Studer deck directly into the mastering chain.

Listening through three consecutive test stampers to ensure zero surface noise.

Heavyweight 350gsm matte board packaging with debossed typography and tipped-in art.

Hand-packed in reinforced mailers and shipped straight from our studio vault.

Cutting the B-side live to two-track tape

We abandoned the digital safety tracks entirely for the second movement. Running straight through vintage discrete preamps onto two-inch Ampex tape gave the low end a natural compression that digital converters simply refuse to capture.

The tape saturation starts to breathe right around the three-minute mark where the room mics overload. That little bit of distortion isn't a flaw—it's the exact sound of the monitors rattling off the control room glass at two in the morning.

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