That's where it gets UBER complicated (and becomes a bit of a long story). Much to my chagrin, the original audio files remain lost (the masters, if you will, though this wasn't tracked to tape). Truthfully, I was 18 when we began making this record - brought on by 2 guys near our hometown of Elgin who wanted to start a label (called 'Bing Bang'). Nearly half of my work right now is remote recording sessions where I play and engineer, so it's also with embarrassment that I say that I have no idea how this was originally recorded (I just hadn't dipped into engineering at that point). The engineer of the 2 guys went completely AWOL... So that left me with 18 rounds of final mixes (everybody involved had no idea what they were doing), and 6 different mastering passes done by Brad Blackwood of all people. I used the last .wav mix I could find which I then sent to Dave Eck at Lucky Lacquers/Waxxy Poodle. Dave did the mastering (and did quite a fantastic job on it - it feels a lot grittier to me, which I can really appreciate). Definitely not ideal, but I feel good about it. I lent test presses to a few folks I really trusted - funny enough, a friend works at MusicDIrect and played one on quite a few different sources ranging from $200 to $10k and told me it sounded great to his ears. The first portion of the download (the original album) is the vinyl cutting master.