Each Opus 3 Reel-To-Reel Tape is made upon order and is ready to ship in approximately 2-4 weeks!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
Limited Production Run of only 50 Copies Worldwide!
Master Quality Reel To Reel Tape!
Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible!
Opus 3 Records Offers Analogue Copies From Original Analogue Masters!
Master copies of Opus 3 analogue recordings! The shortest and best possible signal-path, without any conversions.
The current Opus 3 catalogue contains 50 titles which have been strictly analogue recorded and preserved. To cater to the needs of people for whom only the best is good enough and demand the ultimate in sound perfection we now offer open-reel master copies of Opus 3 albums.
All tapes are copied 'by hand', track by track, where all Mastering corrections are made with meticulous calibration and control.
We use:
A modified Technics RS-1500 for playback of the master tape, which has also been used for all of our re-mastering for SACD of our older titles. This tape recorder is world renowned as one of the best for playback. However it is specially modified to achieve the best possible quality.
Telefunken Magnetophone M-28 for the recording of your copy. This tape recorder has been used for the recording of all of Opus 3's master-recordings since 1978.
The tape:
which we used for many years was Agfa PEM-468 which is no longer manufactured, however the RMG Studio Master SM-468 produced in the Netherlands has 100% identical performance.
1/4", 2-Tracks
Speed: 38 cm/s (15")
Playback EQ: IEC (CCIR) 35uS
Over many years Opus 3 has from time to time been asked to offer Analogue Tape Copies. At the end of 2014, the first copies were sold in Sweden and the response was overwhelming.
When Opus 3 Records creates an Analogue tape copy, it is always a One to One Copy where, for example, no analogue sub-master is in between, in order to make it as good as possible with no added distortion, noise and wow and flutter, etc.
The drawback is this process takes a lot of time, because all the tracks have to be copies one by one which is the reason the Analogue Tape are high. Because of the way this is done, production is limited to a maximum of 50 pieces. The upside to this process is you are guaranteed to have the best sounding Analogue Tape Copy.
"Lonely Souls" is an inward musical journey with a solitary clarinet, a clarinet conveying the different characters and styles of 12 composers. It is beautiful - calm and agitated, happy and sad, introvert and extrovert - naked and revealing.
From the program notes of Fageus: "This (album) was recorded on a single day, September 28, 1994. That is the day when the ferry Estonia went down in the Baltic with a thousand passengers on board. I was profoundly affected by the picture of people fighting for their lives in the freezing waters of the Baltic. I was in that special state of just playing, hovering between the realization that what I was doing was absolutely pointless and experiencing playing as a matter of life and death."
The Mikael Edlund and Malte Peterson works are world premiere performances.
* Reel To Reel Master Tapes do not include cover art
• 1st Generation Reel to Reel Tape made from the Original Master Tape
• Limited Production Run of only 50 Total
• Analogue Tape Copies from original analogue masters
• Two 10.5" Metal-NAB-Reels
• Playback EQ: IEC/CCIR (35uS)
• 2-track, 1/4" at 38 cm/s (15")
Selections:
(Subject to change)
Solo - Mikael Edlund
Von Koch's Monolog No. 3
1. Andante sostenuto
2. Allegro vivace
Eklund's 4 Pezzi brevi
3. Lento ma non troppo
4. Allegro moderato-Alla burleska
5. Canto Molto lento-Un poco trist
6. Variazoni "Gamle Valu"
Peterson's Solocaprice
7. Andante sostenuto
8. Vivo
Deak's Sonatina
9. Allegretto
10. Rubato con molto tranqsuillo
11. Allegro molto
Rosenberg's Sonata (1960)
Lidholm's Amicizia
12. Amabile
13. Drammatico
14. Scherzando
15. Amabile
Bucht's Clarinet study 59
Stravinsky's Three Pieces I-III
Messiaen's Quatour pour la Fin du Temps
16. Abime des Oiseaux
Debussy's Syrinx
Arnold's Fantasy for Clarinet Op. 87
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
Limited Production Run of only 50 Copies Worldwide!
Master Quality Reel To Reel Tape!
Exceptional Audiophile Sound as close to the Original Master Reference Quality as possible!
Opus 3 Records Offers Analogue Copies From Original Analogue Masters!
Master copies of Opus 3 analogue recordings! The shortest and best possible signal-path, without any conversions.
The current Opus 3 catalogue contains 50 titles which have been strictly analogue recorded and preserved. To cater to the needs of people for whom only the best is good enough and demand the ultimate in sound perfection we now offer open-reel master copies of Opus 3 albums.
All tapes are copied 'by hand', track by track, where all Mastering corrections are made with meticulous calibration and control.
We use:
A modified Technics RS-1500 for playback of the master tape, which has also been used for all of our re-mastering for SACD of our older titles. This tape recorder is world renowned as one of the best for playback. However it is specially modified to achieve the best possible quality.
Telefunken Magnetophone M-28 for the recording of your copy. This tape recorder has been used for the recording of all of Opus 3's master-recordings since 1978.
The tape:
which we used for many years was Agfa PEM-468 which is no longer manufactured, however the RMG Studio Master SM-468 produced in the Netherlands has 100% identical performance.
1/4", 2-Tracks
Speed: 38 cm/s (15")
Playback EQ: IEC (CCIR) 35uS
Over many years Opus 3 has from time to time been asked to offer Analogue Tape Copies. At the end of 2014, the first copies were sold in Sweden and the response was overwhelming.
When Opus 3 Records creates an Analogue tape copy, it is always a One to One Copy where, for example, no analogue sub-master is in between, in order to make it as good as possible with no added distortion, noise and wow and flutter, etc.
The drawback is this process takes a lot of time, because all the tracks have to be copies one by one which is the reason the Analogue Tape are high. Because of the way this is done, production is limited to a maximum of 50 pieces. The upside to this process is you are guaranteed to have the best sounding Analogue Tape Copy.
"Lonely Souls" is an inward musical journey with a solitary clarinet, a clarinet conveying the different characters and styles of 12 composers. It is beautiful - calm and agitated, happy and sad, introvert and extrovert - naked and revealing.
From the program notes of Fageus: "This (album) was recorded on a single day, September 28, 1994. That is the day when the ferry Estonia went down in the Baltic with a thousand passengers on board. I was profoundly affected by the picture of people fighting for their lives in the freezing waters of the Baltic. I was in that special state of just playing, hovering between the realization that what I was doing was absolutely pointless and experiencing playing as a matter of life and death."
The Mikael Edlund and Malte Peterson works are world premiere performances.
* Reel To Reel Master Tapes do not include cover art
** It is standard practice in all recording studios to keep the tape "tail out". This reduces "pre-echo" and it means that the tape should be placed on the right hand side of the recorder, re-wound and then played.
Features:• 1st Generation Reel to Reel Tape made from the Original Master Tape
• Limited Production Run of only 50 Total
• Analogue Tape Copies from original analogue masters
• Two 10.5" Metal-NAB-Reels
• Playback EQ: IEC/CCIR (35uS)
• 2-track, 1/4" at 38 cm/s (15")
Selections:
(Subject to change)
Solo - Mikael Edlund
Von Koch's Monolog No. 3
1. Andante sostenuto
2. Allegro vivace
Eklund's 4 Pezzi brevi
3. Lento ma non troppo
4. Allegro moderato-Alla burleska
5. Canto Molto lento-Un poco trist
6. Variazoni "Gamle Valu"
Peterson's Solocaprice
7. Andante sostenuto
8. Vivo
Deak's Sonatina
9. Allegretto
10. Rubato con molto tranqsuillo
11. Allegro molto
Rosenberg's Sonata (1960)
Lidholm's Amicizia
12. Amabile
13. Drammatico
14. Scherzando
15. Amabile
Bucht's Clarinet study 59
Stravinsky's Three Pieces I-III
Messiaen's Quatour pour la Fin du Temps
16. Abime des Oiseaux
Debussy's Syrinx
Arnold's Fantasy for Clarinet Op. 87
