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Post by tasteliketape on Jan 31, 2016 19:33:36 GMT -6
Stole this idea but what is the cleanest recording you have heard clean as if sounded like you were in the room and every instrument had definition separation above and beyond
I know there will be a lot of different answers but I would like to check out some opinions Chet Aktins and Mark Knofler album come to mind the ine they did together
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 31, 2016 20:51:36 GMT -6
The Kind of Blue record is still awesome...
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Post by tasteliketape on Jan 31, 2016 21:00:14 GMT -6
Wow forgot that one one of my favorites
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jan 31, 2016 21:41:41 GMT -6
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Post by Pueblo Audio on Jan 31, 2016 21:56:16 GMT -6
Sunny Rollins - Way Out West, comes to mind
Hugh Masakela - Almost like being in Jazz
Most of the JVC XRCD titles are models of clean.
Jennifer Warrens - Famous Blue Raincoat & The Well
Bella Fleck - Tabula Rasa
Don Pullen - African-Brazilian Connection
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Post by ericn on Jan 31, 2016 22:43:15 GMT -6
Sunny Rollins - Way Out West, comes to mind Hugh Masakela - Almost like being in Jazz Most of the JVC XRCD titles are models of clean. Jennifer Warrens - Famous Blue Raincoat & The Well Bella Fleck - Tabula Rasa Don Pullen - African-Brazilian Connection I was just thinking Famous Blue Rain Coat! Anything on Sheffield Labs! |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 31, 2016 23:08:46 GMT -6
The Ryan Adams album "Ashes and Fire" sounds pretty amazing too.
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Post by Ward on Feb 1, 2016 6:25:50 GMT -6
The detail of Sting's 10 Sumner's Tales always made my ears pop.
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Post by svart on Feb 1, 2016 8:26:22 GMT -6
I once heard a 7.1 classical piece that once I closed my eyes, really, really fooled me into thinking I was at the hall. I can't remember what it was, but damn. There was a slight audience murmur before the piece and you could pick out conversations. It truly was remarkable.
IIRC I read it was Schoeps mics through weiss converters, but I can't remember what preamps.. They were something more esoteric.
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Post by swurveman on Feb 1, 2016 9:18:32 GMT -6
Jennifer Warrens - Famous Blue Raincoat & The Well Thanks for bringing this up. I'd never heard Warnes' version of this song. Fabulous. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 1, 2016 9:57:25 GMT -6
The detail of Sting's 10 Sumner's Tales always made my ears pop. I've used this as one of my reference's since it came out, love the balances (though I personally favor more bottom), it doesn't hurt that the song writing and performances are epic! There is a ton of 400 on the snare tracks! |
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 1, 2016 9:59:59 GMT -6
The Ryan Adams album "Ashes and Fire" sounds pretty amazing too. hmmm, from memory i find the upper mids on this too harsh...., i'll give it another listen and amend this post if i hear it differently today 8) |
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Post by Ward on Feb 1, 2016 10:25:09 GMT -6
The detail of Sting's 10 Sumner's Tales always made my ears pop. I've used this as one of my reference's since it came out, love the balances (though I personally favor more bottom), it doesn't hurt that the song writing and performances are epic! There is a ton of 400 on the snare tracks! That's hugh Padgham for you!! Famous for making individual tracks sound ugly when solo'ed but magically fit together in a mix! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Summoner%27s_Tales |
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Feb 1, 2016 11:39:06 GMT -6
Gregory Porter's Liquid Spirit. Popman brought it to my attention and it's stunning.
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 1, 2016 11:58:26 GMT -6
Gregory Porter's Liquid Spirit. Popman brought it to my attention and it's stunning. no doubt! this is a sonic benchmark, it's normal fare for some guys around here to shoot out gear with this as the test file. |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Feb 1, 2016 13:11:49 GMT -6
Sea Change by Beck is astonishingly well recorded. Herbert von Karajan's version of Beethoven's 9th will scare the shit out of you, if you crank it up, you're there, with the huge orchestra and what sounds like a hundred vocalists. My personal sonic favorite is Lyle Lovette's Road to Ensenada, but as a benchmark vocal tone, not necessarily a "you are there" sound.
If I'm talking purely about the instruments being there with me, in the room, I'd pick Uncommon Ritual, the Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall recording. You'd think someone brought an upright bass into your living room, honestly scary real.
That said, my friend is a well known audiophile reviewer. He said in a recent article that the newer version of Roger Waters "Amused to Death" on vinyl might just be the most spectacular sound ever put to tape, but I haven't heard it. He didn't love the music though.
Live recordings, hmm.. I like Lucinda Williams from Austin City Limits, Ryans Adams' too. Now that I think of it, Steve Earl and Suzanne Vega sounded great as well, so I guess I like the sound on Austin City Limits in general, and the amazing Concert for George come to mind.
* Johnken, I still listen to the SACD of Kind of Blue regularly. It's the one where they recorded it from the original tapes at the proper speed, therefore, the proper key. The common recording was actually higher in pitch because the tape machine it was made from was running fast. I also have the original, but prefer to hear what they heard in the room.
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Post by Johnkenn on Feb 1, 2016 17:28:52 GMT -6
Gregory Porter's Liquid Spirit. Popman brought it to my attention and it's stunning. Umm...hellooooo...I think that was me... |
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 1, 2016 18:25:55 GMT -6
Gregory Porter's Liquid Spirit. Popman brought it to my attention and it's stunning. Umm...hellooooo...I think that was me... that's where i first heard it.... |
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Post by Johnkenn on Feb 1, 2016 21:36:40 GMT -6
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Post by Kablam on Feb 4, 2016 13:21:54 GMT -6
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
For something so clean, it sounds huge. His voice is like a billboard between the speakers.
I'd love to have more opportunities to just set up the mics and have the record a couple minutes later.
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Post by rowmat on Apr 2, 2016 22:43:34 GMT -6
Sea Change by Beck is astonishingly well recorded..." Dalcon Console formerly in Oceanway Studio 'B' now owned by Nigel Godrich.  |
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Post by nobtwiddler on Apr 3, 2016 7:17:14 GMT -6
Toy Matinee
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Post by thehightenor on Apr 3, 2016 8:05:18 GMT -6
The detail of Sting's 10 Sumner's Tales always made my ears pop. Hugh Padgham just has a great ear for big clear up front drums.
When you've spent a career recording Stewart Copland, Phil Collins and Vinnie Colaiuta big bangin' drums are part of the job description.
Once you've got big upfront crystal clear drums then that defines the space (imho) and you're just hanging the rest of the arrangement around them.
It's the one beef I have with recording with sampled drums, as good as they sound they just don't seem to define a space for me in the way real drums do recorded brilliantly in a great space.
One day (well 7 years actually) when my kids have finished with the local school, I'm moving a little way further out and building a proper studio space in the garden and going back to recording a grand piano and real drums!
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Post by joseph on Apr 3, 2016 8:56:55 GMT -6
Waltz for Debby/Vanguard Sessions
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Post by mrholmes on Apr 3, 2016 9:29:24 GMT -6
The detail of Sting's 10 Sumner's Tales always made my ears pop. When it comes to great sounding albums this one is nr 1 in my magic AB folder. Also the reverb programming is epic.... wow.... For tracking clean I love all modern transfomerles mics into one of the RME Preamps. Hard to hear any distortions with this chain. www.rme-audio.de/en/products/quadmic.php |
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