ERIC CLAPTON - 461 Ocean Boulevard

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Test Pressing White Label

White label test pressing in plain white sleeve that was mastered by Howard Thompson (KIP) and not by Dennis Blackman (BILBO), who mastered the actual released versions found in the first pressing run.

There are subtle, but noticeable differences in the mastered sound between the KIP and BILBO pressings, the most noticeable of which is a larger lower end in the bass on the KIP mastering and slightly louder guitars on the BILBO mastering.

The KIP mastering is cut closer to the label edge than the BILBO mastering, most noticeably on Side 2, where the B//1 KIP mastering has a 7/16ths of an inch run-out whereas the B//3 BILBO mastering has a 14/16ths of an inch run-out.