Yello Stella Master Quality Reel To Reel Tape (1 Reel)

Master Quality Reel To Reel Tape!
Studio Master Copy with 1 Metal Reel!
YELLO celebrated their global breakthrough in 1985 with the fourth longplayer "Stella", with which Dieter Meier and Boris Blank shot to the top of the Swiss charts - and thus represent the first local band to reach number 1 in the Swiss charts. In Germany, the album entered the 6th place of the hit list and was awarded a gold record.
Horch House makes history with Yello and offers the analogue music work of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier on tape for the first time. A total of five top albums by Yello will be made available in stages.
It starts with the album Stella.
Yello celebrated their global breakthrough in 1985 with their fourth longplayer Stella, with which Dieter Meier and Boris Blank shot to the top of the Swiss charts — making them the first local band to reach number 1 in the Swiss charts. In Germany, the album reached 6th place in the charts and is honored with a gold record. While Yello had previously been treated as a well-kept insider tip, the entire pop world now focussed on the Zurich duo. With the mega-hit "Oh Yeah", Yello left their mark on international pop culture for the first time: after the song, which was not originally planned as a single, entered the international charts, the hype took on a life of its own when "Oh Yeah" was featured on the soundtrack of the cinema blockbusters Ferris macht blau (1986) and Das Geheimnis meines Erfolges (1987), inspiring a worldwide audience of millions. To this day, the song can be heard at regular intervals in cinema and TV productions such as The Simpsons and countless commercials.
"Boris played me an instrumental that I couldn't think of anything to play," remembers Dieter Meier. "He asked me to imagine sitting on a beach while the sun goes down, the first martini is served and you slowly fall asleep. That's how the exclamation 'Oh yeah' came about — probably the shortest Dadaist text in the history of pop music. When I enter America, I'm always asked at customs if I've published anything well-known when I say 'musician'. I always answer 'Oh yeaaaaaaaaah' and can usually go through straight away..."
"The pressure and energy of the music on the very high-quality master tape copy are fantastic. Despite the sometimes densely woven musical passages, every last nuance in the sound is reproduced exactly as the two sound magicians created it in the YELLO studio on Lake Zurich (*). As a listener, you can take a seat in the famous sound master's chair. The master tape copy of Horch House is the mega-high-flyer, which I can recommend to all tape lovers without reservation." - Claus Müller, audiotapereview.com
The label HORCH HOUSE from Germany has stood for purely analogue sound enjoyment for 10 years and has specialized in tapes. We work exclusively with historical and new analogue tapes, which are carefully restored on analogue equipment at csmastering in Vienna if necessary. The tape copies are produced manually on meticulously maintained machines from Studer. The catalogue contains titles from the genres of classical, jazz, blues, rock/pop and easy listening. The packaging is appropriately stable for the medium, of high quality and excellently transportable and archivable.
WHAT EXACTLY IS AN 'ORIGINAL MASTER TAPE'?
Good question. The term is sometimes misused or misinterpreted, so it's worth getting clear on what's what. When an album is recorded, whether in the studio or on stage, it will either be a multi-track recording using several microphones and/or different sessions to record each individual element separately (instruments, vocals), or a live or semi-live recording in which one or several microphones capture the performance as a whole. The recording engineers will then bring the various elements together, editing and mixing them to achieve the desired sound and to remove unwanted noise, culminating in the album's first final arrangement. This is the original studio master tape, of which there will be not just one, but several: each of these is considered an 'original master'.
This original master is then used as the 'blueprint' for all subsequent copies, pressings, remasterings, etc. But of course with each subsequent treatment, something of the original information and hence sound quality is lost. Which is why nothing sounds quite like the original studio master tape. It's the original source of the album in its completed state.
DOES HORCH HOUSE DO ANY KIND OF REMASTERING DURING THE COPYING PROCESS?
Absolutely not! Why mess with the best? The whole point of what they do lies in capturing the magic of the original analogue master tape in its purest, most faithful form possible.
'Remastering' can be compared to using computer software to edit an original photograph. The benefits are that you can remove unwanted marks or noise, clean things up, remove distortion and boost clarity. The downside is that in doing so, you often lose the natural essence of the original and the result can seem rather synthetic, lacking in real life character.
The unfortunate fact is that tapes, like photographs, do tend to age over time, and most analogue masters are now between 30-80+ years old.
So Horch House undertake a painstaking 'soft refurbishing' process, which is key to recapturing the original quality of a master tape.
CAPTURING THE MAGIC OF MASTER TAPE
How exactly does Horch House translate an original analogue master tape into faithful copies on reel-to-reel tape and vinyl records?
They use a process that's been meticulously researched and developed by their expert team of sound engineers, with input from some of the world's leading specialists.
The first step is to carefully assess the sound quality of the original master tape, which their experts do in great detail. The unfortunate fact is that tapes do tend to age over time, and most analogue masters are now between 30-80+ years old. What they're looking to do, therefore, as an integral part of their copying process, is to restore the sound quality back to its original level. They want you to hear exactly what the first sound engineers heard (and indeed the musicians themselves), on the day that the original recording was made. This is in stark contrast to any kind of 'remastering', which they most definitely do not do! They're not looking to 'improve' the recording in any way, but rather to return it as closely as possible to its full original beauty.
They call this their 'soft refurbishing' process.
HOW CLOSE ARE HORCH HOUSE COPIES TO THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES?
Horch House believe that they're as close as it's possible to get - not simply to the master tape in its current condition, but to that master tape's original condition. Thanks to their detailed 'soft refurbishing' process, their master tape copies could, in a sense, now be considered as better than the current originals because they've been lovingly restored to deliver the same sound quality that the originals had on the day they were first recorded.
WHAT ABOUT COPYRIGHT? ARE MASTER TAPE COPIES LEGAL?
All Horch House master tape copies are fully authorized, licensed and approved by the relevant record label/music publisher.
The label HORCH HOUSE from Germany has stood for purely analogue sound enjoyment for 10 years and has specialized in tapes. We work exclusively with historical and new analogue tapes, which are carefully restored on analogue equipment at csmastering in Vienna if necessary. The tape copies are produced manually on meticulously maintained machines from Studer. The catalogue contains titles from the genres of classical, jazz, blues, rock/pop and easy listening. The packaging is appropriately stable for the medium, of high quality and excellently transportable and archivable.
** 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:

• Studio Master Copy
• 1-Reel Tape
• Label: Vertigo
• Tape Material: RTM LPR90
• Recording Speed: 15IPS-38cm/sec
• Rec. Level (mag flux): 320 nWb/m
• Equalization: CCIR
• Bandwidth & Tracks: 1/4" - 2 Track
• Reel: Metal spool - 10.5" - 26,5 cm
• Production on Studer Machines Refurbished to Factory Specification
• Handmade
• Recorded in the private studio of Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
• Recording director & engineer: Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
• Fully Authorized, Licensed & Approved by the Record Label/Music Publisher
• Yello Archive Box
• Horch House Deluxe Packaging
• Extensive Supplements

Selections:

1. Desire
2. Vicious Games
3. Oh Yeah
4. Desert Inn
5. Stalakdrama
6. Koladi Ola
7. Domingo
8. Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)
9. Let Me Cry
10. Ciel Ouvert
11. Angel No