Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to present The Doors reissue series, the six studio albums featured on Deluxe Gatefold Covers with 2LP 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl, cut at 45rpm. Analog mastering by Doug Sax and overseen by Bruce Botnick, The Doors legendary producer/engineer, these great albums never sounded this good before, glorious full analog sound!

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• Limited Edition
• 2LP 45rpm 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, USA
• Mastered by Doug Sax Using All-Tube System
• Cut from the Original Analog Master Tapes
• Overseen by The Doors engineer Bruce Botnick
• Deluxe Gatefold Cover

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

This 1970 release from Morrison and the gang features the classic "Roadhouse Blues", "Peace Frog" and "Ship of Fools".

Rolling Stone proclaimed that Morrison Hotel opens “with a powerful blast of raw funk called ‘Roadhouse Blues’. It features jagged barrelhouse piano, fierce guitar, and one of the most convincing raunchy vocals Jim Morrison has ever recorded.”

In short, the harsh brilliance of “Roadhouse Blues” was its angry hard rock manner, brought to fore in brooding fashion with a chillingly true Morrison lyric: "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer/The future's uncertain and the end is always near."

Making it one of The Doors’ best-ever tracks, “Roadhouse Blues” was joined as praise-worthy in Rolling Stones’ review by the buoyant catchiness of another Morrison Hotel single, “Land Ho.” “A chanty that sets you rocking and swaying on first listen and never fails to bring a smile every time it's repeated.”

Musicians:

Jim Morrison, vocals
Ray Manzarek, organ, piano, bass
Robby Krieger, guitar
John Densmore, drums

Lonnie Mack, bass
Ray Neopolitan, bass

Track Listing:

LP 1 Side A
01. Roadhouse Blues
02. Waiting For The Sun
03. You Make Me Real

LP 1 Side B
04. Peace Frog
05. Blue Sunday
06. Ship Of Fools

LP 2 Side C
07. Land Ho!
08. The Spy

LP 2 Side D
09. Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M’Gill

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