Michael Jackson RARE TEST PRESS ACETATE no promo 1987

$

405

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T H I S  I S  I T !

M I C H A E L  J A C K S O N

" S T R E E T W A L K E R "

C B S

COLUMBIA RECORDING STUDIOS

N  E  W    Y  O  R  K

10"  STUDIO  ACETATE

REFERENCE RECORD

SIDE "A"

"STREETWALKER"

SIDE "B"

- BLANK - NO GROOVES - 

ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER

MICHAEL JACKSON ORIGINALS !

WHAT IS AN "ACETATE"?

An acetate is a transitional stage between the master tape and the finished vinyl record.

The acetate is used to assess whether the music has been successfully transferred to disc. It is checked by the sound engineer. There may be only one copy made of a particular recording, sometimes more are cut and sent to the studio and artist for approval.

The acetate comes before making the master, and allows the sound to be checked without great expense.

It is unusual for more than a dozen to be manufactured, so from the collector's point of view an acetate is a rare find indeed! If the recording is rejected the acetate may be the only record that survives. The rejected cut may simply be poor quality, however the artist may have opted to use a different take of the song, if so, the acetate becomes much more precious.
An incredible find - possibly unique - and certainly one of only a handful.

I guess the best way to explain it would be like this: having an acetate for a song is almost like having the "negatives" for a photo. Acetates are extremely rare, and in some cases, are one-of-a-kind. An acetate disc is cut prior to the cutting of the master disc which will be sent off to the pressing plant where mass production of retail copies begin. The reference disc (or "acetate") allows the artist, producer, engineer, and other interested parties to check the quality of the tape-to-disc recording process and make any necessary changes to ensure that the audio fidelity of the master disc will be as close as possible to that of the original master tape. Even though referred to as an "acetate", it is essentially an aluminium disc coated with a fine film of nitro-celluolose lacquer with no acetate in it at all!

The surface is softer than vinyl, there is little to no background noise, and when it is played the sound is as close to the master tape as you will ever get.

So if you have an "acetate", you have a disc that was theoretically cut for the producer, engineer and artist to listen to.

Some acetate records have different mixes of a recording, rather than the released version. If you have a commercially-issued version of the recording on hand, you may want to compare the two records to see how they differ.  The alternate version may be one-of-a-kind, and the value is much higher than simply a released version on an acetate record.  Acetates are rare enough anyway, though, as there are usually ten or fewer copies made of them.

Due to their rarity, some acetates can command high prices at auction. Brian Epstein's collection of Beatles acetates fetched between $1,000 and $10,000 per disc.  An acetate from The Velvet Underground, containing music that would later appear on their first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, sold on eBay in 2006 for  $25,200.

RECORD AND JACKET IN NEAR MINT CONDITION !

OWN A PIECE OF POP HISTORY!

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