After conquering England on tour, Bob Marley returned to Jamaica to record Rastaman Vibration with his band. The album, released in 1976, reached the Top 10 in the U.S. This record was pressed using a precision technique known as half-speed mastering, in which the source master and cutting lathe run at half speed on a specially adapted Neumann VMS-80. The result is a cut with excellent high frequency response and solid stereo images. In short, half-speed mastering produces a superlative master of the highest quality.
