Miles: I was allowed access to the original Sony 1610 format digital master from the archive vaults. SDE: Given that the album was a digital recording, could you reveal what source material you were working with? Miles Showell: I can confirm that Brothers In Arms was cut as a double 45 RPM edition. SDE: Is the forthcoming half-speed mastered vinyl of Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms a 33RPM or 45RPM pressing? Next week, Universal Music will reissue half-speed mastered vinyl pressings of Dire Straits‘ 1985 album Brothers in Arms and Mark Knopfler‘s 1983 soundtrack to Bill Forsyth’s film Local Hero.īoth albums have digital master tapes, but Abbey Road mastering engineer – and half-speed specialist – Miles Showell talks exclusively to SDE about the detective work required to source the correct tapes in preparation for the half-speed mastering process and some surprising discoveries along the way…
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