The mastering of the first batch of 1974 KIng Crimson shows is now complete - the next task is the high resolution masters. Rather strange to be revisiting tapes that I first mixed a life time ago in 1991 for the Great Deceiver box set. Back then they were mixed onto half inch tape, then transferred into SADIE (a very early digital editor), before being mastered back onto half inch tape, and then finally mastered for CD at the Townhouse. For the new version, I am going back to the original mixes, which were entirely analogue (meaning that we can create a genuinely high resolution master). It also means that I am going back before the mixes were mastered by Tpny Arnold at The Courthouse and Ian Cooper at The Townhouse - two very good mastering engineers, so something of a challenge to ensure that they sound as good or better.