The Doors - Infinite

Please note, Waiting For The Sun is presented in 5.0 not 5.1 surround. The album doesn't contain any content on the subwoofer channel, as during the creation of the multichannel mix by Bruce Botnick, The Doors producer/engineer, he deemed a .1 track unnecessary — "During the mix I felt that it wasn't necessary as the tracks had all the punch and bottom that we needed to tell the story." Please also note, the song "Love Her Madly," on the album L.A. Woman, is presented in 5.0 not 5.1 surround. The song doesn't contain any content on the subwoofer channel, due to an accident when creating the multichannel mix, according to Botnick. It's the only song on the album without discrete subwoofer content.

NOTE CONCERNING THE DOORS (CAPP 74007) The Doors was a 4-track recording. As such, the surround portion of this multichannel mix is intended to be room ambiance.

Analogue Productions and Acoustic Sounds bring you The Doors — the band’s six Morrison-era albums, all on Hybrid Multichannel SACD, in a special edition box set limited to 2,500 numbered copies! Also available as 45 RPM double LPs in a box set limited to 2,500 copies. Each pressed on 200-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings!

All remastered from the original sources by Doug Sax and The Doors original engineer Bruce Botnick. 

As aptly put by rock ‘n’ roll journalist extradorinare Ben Fong-Torres, there’s never been a reissue of The Doors recordings that sounded quite like these gems from Analogue Productions and Acoustic Sounds. And now, you can ‘break on through’ with all six Doors’ studio albums in a deluxe box set — on Hybrid Multichannel SACD and 45 RPM LP!

Analogue Productions, using the original master analog sources, brings The Doors to SACD, resulting in as Doors biographer Ben Fong-Torres, esteemed rock journalist and former Rolling Stone editor, notes: "Bottom line, a chronicle of The Doors in the studio, captured with the highest sonic quality possible.

"They deserve no less."

All of The Doors’ legendary albums — The untoppable self-titled 1967 debut The Doors, one of rock’s most important debuts, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, and the visceral L.A. Woman — have been remastered by Doug Sax and The Doors’ original engineer Bruce Botnick, and made available on Hybrid Multichannel SACD for the first time in the U.S.!

The surround sound program on the Doors SACDs comes from the original 96K, 24-bit files mixed and mastered by Bruce Botnick for the DVD Audio Doors/Perception release. Those mixes were made from the original 8-track, 15 i.p.s. analog master tapes, with the exception of The Doors, which was recorded on 4-track. For the SACDs, the mixes were then up-sampled without filters to DSD using the Weiss Saracon format converter and authored by Gus Skinas at the Super Audio Center.

Fong-Torres helped compile one of the most definitive written histories of the band — "The Doors by The Doors." In that book, Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) calls The Doors, "the most underrated musical powerhouse in rock history. And unlike some that fade away into the abyss, The Doors will always relate to the youth of any era."

Girl you gotta love your man. And audiophiles, you’ll love The Doors box set on SACD from Acoustic Sounds. The memory of Morrison and Co. on you depends; their legacy will never end. Get this box set today before they’re gone; into your house The Doors will storm ... Yeah!

Technical notes about the recording process by Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick:

"Throughout the record history of the Doors, the goal between Paul Rothchild and myself was to be invisible, as the Doors were the songwriters and performers. Our duty was to capture them in the recorded medium without bringing attention to ourselves. Of course, the Doors were very successful, and Paul and I did receive some acclaim, which we did appreciate.

 

"If you listen to all the Doors albums, no attempt was made to create sounds that weren't generated by the Doors, except for the Moog Synthesizer on Strange Days, although that was played live in the mix by Jim, but that's another story. The equipment used was very basic, mostly tube consoles and microphones. Telefunken U47, Sony C37A, Shure 56. The echo used was from real acoustic echo chambers and EMT plate reverb units. In those days, we didn't have plug-ins or anything beyond an analogue 8-track machine. All the studios that we used, except for Elektra West, had three Altec Lansing 604E loudspeakers, as that was the standard in the industry, 3-track. On EKS-74007, The Doors, we used 4-track Ampex recorders and on the subsequent albums, 3M 56 8-tracks. Dolby noise reduction units were used on two albums, Waiting For The Sun and The Soft Parade. Everything was analogue, digital was just a word. We didn't use fuzz tone or other units like that but created the sounds organically, i.e. the massive dual guitar solo on "When The Music's Over," which was created by feeding the output of one microphone preamp into another and adjusting the level to create the distortion. The tubes were glowing and lit up the control room.

"When mastering for the 45-RPM vinyl release, we were successfully able to bake the original master tapes and play them to cut the lacquer masters."

- Bruce Botnick, July 2012

Click here to read a 1997 interview in The Tracking Angle with Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick.

 

 

 

 

 

The Doors

Break On Through (To The Other Side)

Soul Kitchen

The Crystal Ship

Twentieth Century Fox

Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

Light My Fire

Back Door Man

I Looked At You

End Of The Night

Take It As It Comes

The End

Strange Days

Strange Days

You're Lost Little Girl

Love Me Two Times

Unhappy Girl

Horse Latitudes

Moonlight Drive

People Are Strange

My Eyes Have Seen You

I Can't See Your Face in My Mind

When the Music's Over

Waiting For The Sun

Hello, I Love You

Love Street

Not To Touch The Earth

Summer's Almost Gone

Wintertime Love

The Unknown Soldier

Spanish Caravan

My Wild Love

We Could Be So Good Together

Yes, The River Knows

Five To One

The Soft Parade

Tell All the People

Touch Me

Shaman's Blues

Do It

Easy Ride

Wild Child

Runnin' Blue

Wishful Sinful

The Soft Parade

Morrison Hotel

Roadhouse Blues

Waiting For The Sun

You Make Me Real

Peace Frog

Blue Sunday

Ship Of Fools

Land Ho!

The Spy

Queen Of The Highway

Indian Summer

Maggie M'Gill

L.A. Woman

The Changeling

Love Her Madly

Been Down So Long

Cars Hiss By My Window

L.A. Woman

L'America

Hyacinth House

Crawling King Snake

The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)

Riders On The Storm

Customer Reviews (4.57 Stars) 7 person(s) rated this product.

The crown jewel of my boxed sets posted on 08/01/2024 5 Stars Reviewer: James I bought this set a few years back but never reviewed it. I moved recently, and this now has pride of place atop one of my six (!) bookcases and media shelves needed to hold my enormous media collection. In short: these sound spectacular. You will find the 5.1 mixes and the original stereo mixes (not the "anniversary" remixes) all in high- res. Be ready for some "Morrison is in the room" chills down your spine. All are well mastered with full dynamics. No, there isn't much going on in the surround channels on the debut album, but with 5.1 channels and a four-track master tape, there is only so much you can do, so I'm not docking any stars for that. You can cherry pick the individual discs if you don't want them all, but if you do, the quality of this (packaging as well as sound) is off the charts. My comments are based on listening to DSD layers only. I have not played the redbook.

Incredible SACDs posted on 05/01/2020 5 Stars Reviewer: Chris I love The Doors and have my multiple copies of my favorite albums (Debut, Morrison Hotel, LA Woman) ranging from scratched up lld copies from junior high in the ‘70s to MoFi 45rpm vinyl. None of them compare with these SACDs. They excel in imaging, soundstage, instrument/vocal separation, clarity, punch and astounding nuances I have never heard before. I use Sennheiser HD600s with dedicated Sennheiser amp, charge-coupled JBL 250ti, Marantz SACD player, McIntosh MC2500 and McIntosh C29, which reveal even minor deficiencies. These have none...a bargain at the sale price.

The Original Mixes in High-Res, Finally posted on 03/22/2013 5 Stars Reviewer: BD If you already own The Doors: Perception DVD-A + CD boxed set, the real reason to own the Infinite boxed set on hybrid multichannel SACD is not necessarily the 5.1 mixes; those are the same mixes and masterings as the previous DVD-A releases and are sourced from the 96kHz/24-bit PCM masters. The real reason is to finally own the original stereo mixes of The Doors catalogue in high-res. The Perception box, unforgivably, only included stereo REMIXES in 96/24 on DVD-A, containing new remasters of the original stereo mixes only on the included CDs. This Infinite set has had the original stereo mixes newly remastered from the original analogue 2-track masters for this new set, straight to DSD. They appear on both the SACD and CD layer of the discs. They sound wonderful. The 5.1 mixes sound the same as they did on DVD-A, which is to say, really good.

Excellent in All Ways posted on 03/08/2013 5 Stars Yes, this boxed set is a bit pricey. However, the sound each disc produces via a decent 5.1 system is simply incredible. If you like surround and The Doors--just get it! PS

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