Of course with copyright laws not applying to such releases great white wonder soon became copied by other bootleg manufacturers and the album has since appeared in a multitude of configurations on black vinyl and colored vinyl and with and without properly printed covers.
Bootleg vinyl sound quality.
Tool vinyl bootleg quality with so many pressings and not much by way of quality review anywhere that i can find i m looking for a review on the sound quality of any tool vinyl bootlegs of aenima lateralus 10 000 days and salival.
Using audience recordings fm broadcasts and unreleased demo tracks as sources they were sold by mail order and independent shops.
I record in 96k 24bit format and this format allows significantly higher sound quality than the 44 1k 16bit of cds.
This site covers a broad variety of releases from that era.
During the 1970s an underground recording industry emerged.
The problem with most bootlegs is that they typically have absolutely horrible audio quality and sound worse than if they d been recorded with a microphone being flushed down the toilet.
As we learned the same record from the very same stamper could sound quite different depending which pressing you were listening to.
The quality is pretty good and sometimes it gets really quiet and then really loud.
Sometimes like in the case of that green nirvana bootleg live at bbc1 radio that popped up a while back it was a show they played and it was the songs that didn t get released.
The most common type is the live bootleg or audience recording which is created with sound recording equipment smuggled into a live concert many artists and live venues prohibit this form of recording but from the 1970s onwards the increased availability of portable technology made such bootlegging easier and the general quality of these recordings has improved over time as consumer.
Flac can handle up to 192k 24bit.