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In Reply to: RE: Ray Charles + Basie Orchestra : y'all need to hear this posted by Joel_Waterman on October 07, 2007 at 21:21:01
To clarify the tech details:
Ray's vocal source: 15 ips mono analog reel-to-reel, no NR, of varying quality and constantly changing relative linear speed from one end of the reel to the other. Lots of band leakage.
Multi-track edited vocal/band source: ProTools HD at 96/24.
Stereo mix: ProTools 96/24 performed "in-the-box." Telarc had NOTHING to do with this mix.
CD master: Doug Sax mastered from 96/24 PT mix to 44.1/16-bit, analog path to SADiE pcm workstation.
96/24 Stereo master: Doug Sax mastered from 96/24 PT mix, analog path to SADiE pcm workstation. This is the master for both the LP and the DSD stereo program on the SACD. Telarc had NOTHING to do with this mix other than a transfer to DSD for the SACD master.
SACD Surround program: ProTools 96/24 multi-track playback through a custom analog mixer and all analog outboard processing IN PLACE OF the pcm processing used in PT for the stereo mix. The resulting surround mix was recorded to Sonoma DSD workstation through EMM Labs converters. The surround mixes were assembled and authored for SACD on the SADiE DSD workstation. I did all the SU mix, assembly and authoring.
Best Regards,Michael Bishop
Recording Engineer
I have contacted some friends and acquaintances who I know to be Ray Charles fans from way back. My plan was to "spring" this SACD on them not telling them it has digitally put together just to let them hear it unbiased. Well, my plan was foiled. Everyone I spoke to already had the *CD* for weeks or longer and anything I mentioned was "old news".
This afternoon I went over to a friend's house and we listened to his CD (he has no SACD capability) on his old JBLs (book shelf speakers from probably the 70s). Hey, it sounded good. My friend also has this *wonderful* CD box set compilation of Ray Charles' Atlantic recordings offered by Rhino. Something I'm going to get myself. The book that comes with the box really defrays the price of admission.
My point here is that Ray Charles devotees *love* the CD, content and sound, *as is*, no complaints, just pure adoration and are appreciative to the bottom of their shoes that this disc exists. My tiny sampling has shown, thus far, that us "audiophiles" often (not always) do what we do best, over analyze to the point of missing much of the music.
This disc is da bomb---especially in multi-channel -:)
Robert C. Lang
""audiophiles" often (not always) do what we do best, over analyze to the point of missing much of the music"
It is absolutely fine to analyze. It's fun. What would not be good is to put aside this album because you do not like the sound. That, indeed, would be missing something. Being an audiophile is an 'and' thing.
I really did not like the RB-CD (see below) which I simply had to buy to have a copy we could play in the car etc.
Jw
Agreed 100%.
Note that I said *us* audiophiles. I would never trade places with my "only for the sake of the music" infidel friends :-). But the occasional “exposure” can be quite refreshing!
Robert C. Lang
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