Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes (1972) [FLAC] - Orig. US Robert Ludwig Vinyl Rip

Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes (1972) - Orig. US Robert Ludwig WLP Cut

16bit/44.1kHz (Audio for CDR Burning)



01 - Bleeding Heart (Elmore James)

02 - Highway Chile

03 - Tax Free (Bo Hanssen / Janne Karlssen)

04 - Peter Gunn (Henry Mancini) / Catastrophe (Bloom / Gade)

05 - Stepping Stone

06 - Midnight

07 - Three Little Bears

08 - Beginning (Mitch Mitchell)

09 - Izabella



All songs by Hendrix except those indicated.



Produced by Eddie Kramer & John Jansen

Engineered by Eddie Kramer, John Jansen, Gary Kellgren,

Dave Palmer, Kim King, Bob Hughes & Tony Bongiovi

Remix at Electric Lady Studios by: Kramer / Jansen

Executive Producer: Michael Jeffrey



Line up:

Jimi Hendrix: Vocals, Guitars

Billy Cox: Bass

Noel Redding: Bass on 2, 3, 6, 7

Mitch Mitchell: Drums

Albert & Arthur Allen: Backing Vocals on 9



Source: (Side 1: MS - 2103 A 31472 -A- 1H / Side 2: MS 2130 31473 -B- 1H

Sterling RL on both sides)



Technics 1210mk2 w/ AT-150 MLX stylus > Yamaha CA-1010 (1979 Solid State Amp)

> RME ADI-2 A/D Interface (conversion to 24 bit, 96kHz) > Click Repair (Cl: 20, Cr: 0) >

Audition 3.0 > SOX Resampler (to 44.1) > Mbit+ Dithering (to 16 bit) > Traders Little Helper (Flac 8)



(NB: Audition 1.5 was used for adjusting DC bias, editing, (incl. manual removal of clicks

and pops), adding gain, and making the cue points.

CueListTool v1.7 & Mediaval CueSplitter were used for generating the .cue's & .m3u's.)



Vinyl Transfer & Restoration by Prof. Stoned



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Prof. sez:



Here is the fourth and last offering in the Hendrix/RL series I've done, consisting of the

original US vinyl pressings of Hendrix' initial posthumous releases.

These were cut by vinyl cutting/mastering master Robert (a.k.a. Bob) Ludwig and

have been highly rated among fans for their exquisite sound quality.

The album was originally mixed and mastered in New York and so -in combination with

Ludwig's cutting and mastering skills- it shouldn' t come as a surprise that this pressing

is the best way to go for this album on vinyl.

Apart from the three other ones I uploaded, Ludwig also mastered the original

US pressing of 'Band of gypsies' on Capitol (' 70).

This will not be included in this series as I feel it has been sonically superseded by the

all-analog reissue on Classic Records (2001) of which I'm gonna do a new rip soon.

But maybe someone else feels the need to do a BOG/RL rip sometime?



There are two different CD reissue of this album, both have gone out of print.

The first one is the now highly sought after Polydor cd from 1988 which went out of print

in the early nineties.

This CD sounds quite good but when comparing it to this new rip it clearly has more

hiss and less dynamical sound, just like 'Hendrix in the west'.

My guess is that the CD was sourced from the 1972 UK lp masters, which would have

to be one or two generation below the mastertapes.

The 2nd one was an early 90's reissue which essentially used the same source material

but was treated with peak limiting and noise reduction.

All of the tracks have since been reisued on EH releases, most of them on ' First rays of

the new rising sun' and 'South Saturn Delta'.

As I have said before, these CD's do leave something to be desired from an audiophile

point of view (as well), as they have been digitally limited quite heavily.

This vinyl rip offers these tracks (and that includes "Highway Chile") in the best sound

quality I have heard so far. End of story.



This was transferred from an EX copy.

You *may* hear some noise on some intro's and outro's but overall the result is very clean.

The distortion you hear in Tr. 08 is in the recording itself.

The record was professionally and carefully cleaned in three steps using Audio Intelligent’s

Enzymantic formula, Super Cleaner Formula, and Ultra pure water on a VPI 16.5

(using VPI brushes) and Nitty Gritty mini-pro 2.

I spent a lot of time manually declicking the wave file (after Click Repair had already been

applied with a medium setting) to make sure the cleanest and most natural sounding result

possible was achieved.



Enjoy!