#Black sabbath master of reality plus#

Then transient information - fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to these LPs.

The Big Sound comes next - wall to wall, lots of depth, huge space, three-dimensionality, all that sort of thing.

They’re front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt would put them. The vocals aren’t “back there” somewhere, lost in the mix. What could be more important than the life of the music? Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does. No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now.

Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space.

Natural tonality in the midrange - with all the instruments having the correct timbre.

Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low.

Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1971

The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing.The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space.What outstanding sides such as these have to offer is not hard to hear: Old records have it - not often, and certainly not always - but maybe one out of a hundred new records do, and those are some pretty long odds. If you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. It’s what vintage all analog recordings are known for - this sound. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to “see” the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn’t showing signs of coming back. This vintage pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records rarely even BEGIN to reproduce. 5 stars: “Master of Reality essentially creates multiple metal subgenres all by itself, laying the sonic foundations for doom, stoner, AND sludge metal, all in the space of just over half an hour.”.It is ridiculously tough to find copies of this album that sound this good and play this quietly, tougher even than it is for Paranoid or the first album.

These sides are big and bold with plenty of bass and driving rock energy – this is the right sound for this heavy music.

#Black sabbath master of reality plus#

An excellent original pressing of Black Sabbath’s third studio release, with outstanding Double Plus (A++) sound from first note to last – exceptionally quiet vinyl too.Others say the release of the guitar strings was intentional and meant to amplify the dark sound regardless of the accident, but what does it matter when the result is so innovative and perfect. Some say that the tuned-down guitar strings by Iommi are intended to make the strings less firm to relieve the fingers of Iommi, who was injured while working in a metal factory several years earlier. A unique and groundbreaking sound, which laid the foundations for the doom-metal sub-genre, stoner rock, and greatly influenced the heavy metal and grunge genre. In order to adapt to Tony Iommi's scale, Geezer Butler also lowered his bass guitar tune in the same halftones, thus making the gloomy, dark sound that makes this album so unique. But the biggest impact on the album's sound came after Iommi loosened the guitar strings a bit, so that their guitar tune was dropped by a few half tones. The one who led the special sound of this album was Tony Iommi, who expanded the range of instruments on which he plays acoustic guitar, synthesizer, piano, and even flute.