A Analogue Productions e a Quality Record Pressings têm a honra de anunciar as reedições dos The Doors, os seis álbuns de estúdio apresentados em Capas Gatefold Deluxe com 2LP Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas, e corte a 45rpm. Masterização analógica por Doug Sax e supervisão de Bruce Botnick, o lendário produtor/engenheiro dos The Doors, estes grandes álbuns têm agora o melhor som de sempre, glorioso som puro analógico!

Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For 

• Edição Limitada
• 2LP 45rpm Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Prensagem na Quality Record Pressings, USA
• Masterizado por Doug Sax com Sistema a Válvulas
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais
• Supervisão de Bruce Botnick engenheiro dos The Doors
• Capa Gatefold Deluxe

Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to announce that these six studio LP titles — The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman — are featured on 180-gram vinyl, pressed at 45 rpm. All were cut from the original analog masters by Doug Sax, with the exception of The Doors, which was made from the best analog tape copy.

A truly authentic reissue project, the masters were recorded on tube equipment, and the tape machine used for the transfer of these releases is a tube machine, as is the cutting system. Tubes baby! This is no time to wallow in the mire. The Doors are on Analogue Productions!

Technical notes about the recording process by The Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick:

"Throughout the record history of the Doors, the goal between Paul Rothchild and myself was to be invisible, as the Doors were the songwriters and performers. Our duty was to capture them in the recorded medium without bringing attention to ourselves. Of course, the Doors were very successful, and Paul and I did receive some acclaim, which we did appreciate.

"If you listen to all the Doors albums, no attempt was made to create sounds that weren't generated by the Doors, except for the Moog Synthesizer on Strange Days, although that was played live in the mix by Jim, but that's another story. The equipment used was very basic, mostly tube consoles and microphones. Telefunken U47, Sony C37A, Shure 56. The echo used was from real acoustic echo chambers and EMT plate reverb units. In those days, we didn't have plug-ins or anything beyond an analogue eight-track machine. All the studios that we used, except for Elektra West, had three Altec Lansing 604E loudspeakers, as that was the standard in the industry, three-track. On EKS-74007, The Doors, we used four-track Ampex recorders and on the subsequent albums, 3M 56 eight-tracks. Dolby noise reduction units were used on two albums, Waiting For The Sun and The Soft Parade. Everything was analogue, digital was just a word. We didn't use fuzz tone or other units like that but created the sounds organically, i.e. the massive dual guitar solo on "When The Music's Over," which was created by feeding the output of one microphone preamp into another and adjusting the level to create the distortion. The tubes were glowing and lit up the control room.

"When mastering for the 45-RPM vinyl release, we were successfully able to bake the original master tapes and play them to cut the lacquer masters." - Bruce Botnick, July 2012

The Doors' mixture of Rock, Blues and Jazz combined with vocalist Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and powerful vocals created a musical Molotov cocktail that could make your senses explode!

About Soft Parade, Rolling Stone described two songs written by guitarist Robby Krieger, “Touch Me” and “Follow Me Down” as horn-string showpieces for the resonant baritone of Jim Morrison.

Described as among the cleanest, most solid and, above all, most recognizable sounds in rock, the distinctive Doors’ sound was no doubt due to the Morrison power, but the other Doors were equally responsible. Ray Manzarek brought virtuosic keyboard tapestries, Krieger gritty, expressive fretwork, and Densmore dynamically rich percussion grooves.

Half of the songs on Soft Parade, The Doors’ fourth LP, were written by Morrison and the other half by guitarist Krieger. “Touch Me” became one of The Doors’ most popular singles. Released as a single in December 1968, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 in the Cashbox Top 100 in early 1969. It was the band’s third American No. 1 single.

Músicos:

Jim Morrison, voz
Ray Manzarek, orgão, piano, baixo
Robby Krieger, guitarra
John Densmore, bateria

Paul Harris, arranjos orquestra
Doug Lubahn, baixo
Harvey Brooks, baixo
Curtis Amy, saxofone
George Bohanan, trombone

Lista de Faixas:

LP 1 Lado A
01. Tell All The People
02. Touch Me

LP 1 Lado B
03. Shaman’s Blues
04. Do It
05. Easy Ride

LP 2 Lado C
06. Wild Child
07. Runnin’ Blue
08. Wishful Sinful

LP 2 Lado D
09. The Soft Parade

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