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Man, that sounds worse than their DVD 'work'

Divine Victim wrote:I have the CD. Yes, it is a CDR (with one of those glossy white labels on the non-data side). The booklet is a single folded sheet with no lyrics or liner notes. I've seen much worse, but it's clearly a missed opportunity.

It's not a missed opportunity, it's just a shame, because they certainly still can press a regular CD, they certainly aren't from Uzbekhistan where it would be perhaps an issue.

It should be boycotted. How much they priced the "CD"?

Divine Victim wrote:...Much worse than that though, the mastering seems to be FUCKED! There are horrible moments of crackly distortion - I'm not highly versed in the sound of the original album as I don't have it, but I'm guessing this wasn't a problem originally?...

Oh, wow! This adds a whole new twists for us... Thanks for sharing this info!

Judging from the progress here, Sultan's Ransom will be on a re-writable disc with the music recorded with a cheap handheld recorder held in front of a worn copy of the original vinyl played on a deck with a rubbish needle.

haha...and all these in a subway station.

Black Axe wrote:Judging from the progress here, Sultan's Ransom will be on a re-writable disc with the music recorded with a cheap handheld recorder held in front of a worn copy of the original vinyl played on a deck with a rubbish needle.

and at the wrong speed

stormspell wrote:

Divine Victim wrote:...Much worse than that though, the mastering seems to be FUCKED! There are horrible moments of crackly distortion - I'm not highly versed in the sound of the original album as I don't have it, but I'm guessing this wasn't a problem originally?...

Oh, wow! This adds a whole new twists for us... Thanks for sharing this info!

I'd like to get this corroborated by someone else who has it, to check I didn't just get a dud. I've tried it on two different players/speakers though and it's not good at all.

I will keep my bootleg CDs...at least they are silver pressed, with a pretty decent quality sound and honest artwork....

I had an email from Lee Payne today saying that there was a major mix-up and that silver-disc, 4-page press copies have been sent to fans by mistake, and that there is an 8-page proper version for the fans! So on the face of it, all's well (can't speak for the mastering though!).

jnfernal wrote:I will keep my bootleg CDs...at least they are silver pressed, with a pretty decent quality sound and honest artwork....

Yes, when you are bootlegging a bands work, it is very important the artwork be honest.

I bought the limited edition with the patch and also received the cdr version. I contacted Cloven Hoof and was told to return the cdr for the silver pressed 8 page booklet correct version.

I'm glad this situation has been solved and it is going to be silver pressed release with full booklet.

Given the circumstances, I don't think another small cd pressing is really needed at the moment, so we'll be retracting our licensing offer and supporting the band's release instead.

Let me know how the proper version looks when you guys receive it.

And more importantly, how it sounds.

I also got that faulty CD-R version plus the inlay was inserted wrong and therefor does look like if I got an old used CD. I wrote to Kay - the one who usually sends all the Cloven Hoof related mails - to get a replacement. Hopefully it will work.

At the Swordbrothers festival Andi Preisig had some Cloven Hoof CD's but I did not check if they are CD-R's or not... .

HMM.

Edit: I got an error message after writing to them again. I seem to be on a spam list/ folder, however, my e-mail came back unanswered.

I can't imagine they did a special lot of the Dominator CD including a different booklet and a different CD (R). All in all a very strange thing.