Creedence on vinyl

Big fan of the ccr.

I have the OG's and the fantasy label did them all very well.

Analogue would be better I would think.I have heard many of their lp's but,none of their CCR releases.

Cosmos factory hands down best album.

The APs all sound great, IMO.

Original pressings. As it was. As it was meant to be. That’s how I heard them in 1969-1971. 50+ year old master tapes???? What could go wrong??

Plus 1 on Cosmos Factory. I’ve worn out two copies so far!

It really depends on what you prefer. Steve Hoffman gives you the clarity of hearing the instruments as they were recorded, while the original releases have that familiar punch we've all come to love.

While I thoroughly love those original releases, listening to Audio Fidelity is a truly amazing experience.

Most Steve Hoffman remasters are the same and generally have a low level so there is no chance of clipping.

I look at it this way. I've thoroughly loved those original releases and always will, but now I'm ready to hear everything as recorded and marvel at the pristine sound.

The 50th anniversary half speed pressed at Abbey Road Studios is a gem. I believe it’s available as a box set or by individual album. 

Came across Gray/Hoffman’s Analogue Productions vinyl pressing of Green River at a record store a few years back in NM condition.  Considering how spendy those pressings are now and that the owner of the store gave me deals on used vinyl frequently (as I was in there spending money almost daily) and how eager I was for quality Creedence vinyl, (I’m constantly buying and ultimately parting with sub-par original-pressing Creedence vinyl) I had to buy it.

I love it.  Awesome music (obviously) and awesome sound.  Those pressings are just so darn expensive.  I have an original-vinyl self-titled LP that sounds pretty good, but I don’t know how many original vinyl pressings of Cosmo’s Factory (my fave) I’ve gone through.  Often they look good but sound beat, or have a veiled, muddy sound. This is a ‘60s-era vinyl catalog I rarely find in good shape.

My system is Clearaudio Concept Wood w/Satisfy Carbon Fiber tonearm & Clearaudio MC Concerto v2 cartridge, Musical Surroundings Phonomena II+ phono stage, fully recapped/restored Marantz 2285b, and Usher CP-6311 (with plenty of lead shot in compartments) floor-standers.  Very neutral, balanced analog system, where good vinyl pressings can sound glorious.

I’ll probably keep grabbing original Fantasy pressings where I find ‘em, but I should probably just acquire the Gray/Hoffman pressings and be done with it.

A friend of mine recently went to Norman Petty studios.  They don’t let you take video in the tour, but his wife took a quick video and I got to see it.

This made me want to get some quality Buddy Holly vinyl.

After some internet research, I decided to get the Steve Hoffman ‘85 From the Original Tapes vinyl pressing.

Not sure why, but the sibilance was unbearable.  Everything else sounded wonderful, but the sibilance was just way too much.  Not sure if the Discogs seller merely visually-graded it, if someone had played a bum stylus on it, or if I just got a bum pressing, but that proved disappointing.  
 

Wondering if anyone else had any issues with that or any other Hoffman pressings.

You're an American ... get both

@tylermunns: Good news! Analogue Productions has reissued the debut Buddy Holly LP, and it is spectacular! Considerably better than the version issued by MCA Records in 1988. AP has issued the Crickets LP as well, and it is not far behind.

As for the From The Original Master Tapes LP on MCA, if you go to the credits on the back of the cover (near the bottom), you’ll find this statement: "Digitally transferred from the original stereo and mono master tapes." That LP was issued in 1985, when digital was still in it’s infancy. I own it for the music, not the sound.

And if you like 50's Rock 'n' Roll in general, The Everly Brothers were also recorded well. I have originals (on Barnaby and Warner Brothers), and reissues done by both Rhino Records and Ace records (a great U.K. label), and they all sound great. Fantastic music too, of course. No Everly Brothers = no Beatles. ;-)

I have AP early pressing with Steve Hoffman/Kevin Gray etched in the dead wax. I compared that to a record show find original years ago and preferred the original. That Was, several years ago. Many nice improvements since. 

I'm referring to the original post 

@bdp24 Oh my gosh, do Everly Brothers recordings sound amazing!

With fear of sounding cliched and “grumpy-old-man,” so many recordings of that time period sound absolutely gorgeous.

I have a mono Warner Brothers vinyl Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers LP that is such a treat.  Man alive, what vocal abilities, what wonderful songs, what wonderful recordings!

Ace Records is a wonderful thing.

When I went through a heavily diligent period of excavating as many “songwriter/scribe-only,” ‘60s songs by Carole King (Goffin/King) and Randy Newman as I could find, Ace Records CD compilations were as good a source as any.

They made several voluminous compilations for both Carole and Randy of their early, songwriting-only tracks from the ‘60s.  They sound great, are loaded, and provide the listener with several super-obscure 45s I would have never heard otherwise, several of which are simply tremendous songs.

Excellent @tylermunns! Analogue Productions also has fantastic LP’s of Elvis and Roy Orbison titles featuring glorious 1950’s sound, recordings made with tube equipment, vocals often captured with the legendary Neumann/Telefunken U47 tube microphone. Far better than most 1960’s Rock ’n’ Roll recordings, just as is true of Jazz and Classical recordings, most notably Blue Note and Prestige for the former, RCA and Mercury for the latter.

In the late-80’s I met and spoke with Bill Inglot, the engineer responsible for most of the Rock ’n’ Roll LP reissues and compilations Rhino released that decade. I risked offending him by saying I found the Ace LP’s of the same titles he had made for Rhino to sound better than his. He was cool, and admitted he agreed with me. He attributed it to the superior equipment Ace provided their engineer, Bob Jones. By the way, another good UK reissue label is Edsel (appropriate name ;-), an offshoot of Ace if I’m not mistaken.

@bdp24 Interesting conversation with Mr. Inglot.  I was impressed with the sound of the Ace CDs, for sure. Not sure the dates on those, I’m thinking late ‘00s. Rhino seems to be hit-or-miss, sound-wise.  I’ve heard some pretty good stuff from them and some really weak stuff.  I had several original Sire ‘79 vinyl LPs of Fear of Music that were too bright.  I decided to get a recent Rhino reissue and it was indeed a better slab o’ wax. Their Fun House, not so good.

Any Analogue Productions vinyl I have is ridiculously good.  

That 45 rpm version of the Crying LP by Orbison of theirs…(cue Homer Simpson drooly-gargley sound)

Correction: I misspoke on Rhino. That Fun House I used to have was not a Rhino.  
The more I think of it, the more Rhino has been great.

Those Black Sabbath reissues I got of theirs were awesome.

I don’t own a TT. So I got the EU CD (Best Of) from 2008 hoping for a decent quality sound. I liked all the songs on the disc. But man, the sound quality sucks big time on this disc. Spotify recently introduced me to some CCR songs and I got hooked.