As Requested
When first released in 1970, the cover stated the album was “Compatible Quadraphonic Sound”, a more meaningless statement you’ll never find. Even the engineer, Stephen Desper, seemed unsure exactly how it was encoded, but DY is, more often than not, mentioned as the system that was used.
After putting the album through our DY test procedure, and passed, we’re confident this is how it should sound, keeping in mind the many negative issues of the DY system itself.
A note regarding the source used. It was supplied by Amazon seemingly as a copy of the master tape. It Quite obviously isn’t!
The Matrix 
A request for a reup of The Flame and L&LD, too please
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L&LD?
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Live & Let Die
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Ah, it’s already available
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Master… schmaster… whatever… there are multitrack masters, sub-masters, stereo masters, quad masters, duplication masters, cutting masters, post production masters, safety copies… the list goes on and on… It depends on what a particular tape is intended to be used for. Every recording has a different production process. The person who is most knowledgeable about what a “master” is would be the record producer but it could also be the engineer. Each producer has different techniques and standards. Producers have a lot of proprietary knowledge that they would rather keep secret. Without knowing the exact methods it’s hard to really know for sure what a “master” is. The best definition is that a master is really whatever the producer says it is. There have been stories of tapes being lost or destroyed and then later we find out that it was really not necessarily the case. One remastering engineer said the tapes he was looking for were often the ones marked “do not use” or something similar. This is because they were originals that they producer did not want to be played. Every play helps to wear out the tape. Fifty plays is way too many, really.
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many thanks
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