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ABOUT SMALL BATCH
Craft Recordings'Small Batchseries is a meticulously curated collection for audiophiles, delivering the highest-quality reissues of legendary recordings.
For each title, we send theoriginal master tapes to legendary engineerBernie Grundman, who performs all-analog mastering (AAA) using a custom-built tube pre-amp, an analog mixing console with discrete in-house electronics, and a Scully solid-state lathe with unique modifications.
From there, lacquers go toRecord Technology Incorporated (RTI), where they’re plated using aone-step process. This “convert” serves directly as the record stamper. By using RTI’s one-step process, we bypass the typical three-step method,preserving musical detail, clarity, and dynamics while minimizing surface noise.
Pressed on 180-gram vinyl with Neotech’s VR900 or VR900-D2 "super vinyl" compound, each limited-edition pressing captures the purest representation of the original lacquer, bringing listeners as close as possible to the original recording
“superb clarity” –Mojo
“breathtakingly majestic” –Clash
“sonically immaculate” –Goldmine
“more realistic, full-bodied, natural and richer” –Analog Planet
“revelatory in terms of sonic detail” –Record Collector
PACKAGE OVERVIEW
Housed in a foil-stamped, linen-wrapped slipcase. The vinyl disc—extractable through a unique frictionless ribbon pull tab—comes in a reproduction of the original album jacket and protected by an archival-quality, anti-static, non-scratching inner sleeve.
In-depth liner notes from some of music’s best educators, historians, and journalists will accompany each title.
Each reissue will be limited edition and numbered. The limited nature of these pressings guarantees that each record is a true representation of the original lacquer.
BERNIE GRUNDMAN ON THE ONE-STEP PROCESS
