Led Zeppelin II on vinyl

@audphile1 

After watching your youtube video (meaning, your link), youtube presented me with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUeODi_Hhls

It was very informative.

After watching it, I took a look at my pressing.  I have RL on side one, and LH on side two.  The "LH" is tiny.  I had a hard time finding it.

It is hard enough to see the scribbling in the wax, when the scribbling is large.  But with the LH being tiny, it is hard to find.  I kept looking, because my side two did not have RL.  So eventually I found the LH.

@seymour-krelborn yep same here and I watched it. Very interesting / looking forward to hearing the cassette on vinyl. It arrives in few days  

So do the 2 sides sound different?

And man I’m really not buying the cassette story. Why would they not use the original tape to create a new master? This makes no sense to me. Even in 1969 they knew that cassette is significantly lower fidelity than the original master tape. Why would anyone at Atlantic do this? Sounds like RL was bitter about it and made up a story…I certainly hope that’s how it unfolded and we’re not listening to the cassette. 

@chrisoshea - Doesn't Better Records allow you to return if not satisfied? 

@audphile1 

So do the 2 sides sound different?

On my pressing, the only songs that have stellar sound quality are the first two songs on side one.

All of the other songs sound very good.  But they all sound like very good recordings.

On my pressing, Whole Lotta Love does not sound like a recording.  It sounds like the band is in front of you (well, it does on the store’s stereo).

I have never heard any other RL pressing.  So I do not know if others have better sound quality for the other songs.  But it seems as if, on my pressing, the expert mastering was done for only the first two songs on side one.