RE: Firebird...

Posted by Botanico92007 (A) on May 7, 2012 at 09:07:06

In Reply to: RE: Firebird... posted by regmac on May 6, 2012 at 13:06:53:

Well, I've puzzled over this too. When Telarc did its first digital recordings, producer Robert Woods and sound engineer Jack Renner got most things right for classical recording. They copied the Mercury technique of minimalist 3-mike recording with wide open dynamics, no spot miking, and natural reverberation. They also chose the Soundstream digital recording process which was superior to the Sony system, which was adopted by most others. They also had a good understanding of the art of getting what they wanted to capture. In a sense it was the "perfect storm" with a positive outcome.

Telarc's first digital recording, The Cleveland Symphonic Winds, created a sensation. Yet I remember that Harry Pearson in TAS had reservations which he had difficulty articulating. Thus began the continuing discussion about the differences between digital and analog sound.

More than 30 years on engineers are still struggling to get it right. We now have much improved digital recording and playback with SACD and hi-rez downloading trying to fill the gap. At the same time there has been a mainstream trend to low-rez.

There are some good digital recordings out there, but certainly not in the numbers that I would have expected. I am frequently disappointed with new recordings. And when I listen to an old 2-track tape or one of the new Tape Project tapes, I shake my head and ask myself what happened.

Perfect storms don't come along very often.

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Topic - Old Believers. - samtellig 06:23:52 05/02/12 (27)

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RE: Old Believers. - tmsorosk 13:46:59 05/05/12 (0)

Vaporizing vixens vituperatively verily vengfully violate volatile vintage vinyl vat vapors - Elizabeth 20:31:19 05/04/12 (3)

Vindication via voluptuous vocabulary vacates vexing volition vacuum - Elizabeth 22:06:56 05/04/12 (2)

Vivacious, albeit vexious vixen voices vow to vacate vinylphobe.(nt) - samtellig 09:23:15 05/11/12 (1)

Verily! - Elizabeth 15:39:35 05/11/12 (0)

Boiled in MD 20-20 while listening to Loretta Linn. * - mr grits 12:05:28 05/03/12 (1)

Is the TT named Loretta?... - musetap 16:22:06 05/03/12 (0)

I’ll leave the analog/digital debate for others. That said... - regmac 08:56:14 05/03/12 (9)

I prefer the former, too :) - E-Stat 14:55:51 05/03/12 (0)

RE: I’ll leave the analog/digital debate for others. That said... - Tony Lauck 14:10:12 05/03/12 (1)

RE: I’ll leave the analog/digital debate for others. That said... - josh358 20:31:58 05/04/12 (0)

Firebird... - mkuller 11:11:49 05/03/12 (5)

RE: Firebird... - regmac 13:06:53 05/06/12 (4)

RE: Firebird... - Tony Lauck 09:07:23 05/07/12 (0)

RE: Firebird... - Botanico92007 09:07:06 05/07/12 (2)

RE: Firebird... - josh358 13:35:19 05/07/12 (1)

And lets not forget - vinyl survivor 21:21:41 05/14/12 (0)

burn sam in a vat of - hifitommy 18:43:18 05/02/12 (3)

dam - hifitommy 11:27:42 05/11/12 (0)

I don't think it's flammable.(nt) - samtellig 09:19:19 05/11/12 (1)

Aren't you? .(nt) - Kal Rubinson 14:47:11 05/12/12 (0)

"Old Believers" were characters in Mussorgsky's opera "Khovanshchina." - John Marks 09:48:26 05/02/12 (1)

Well, then, Sam's "Burn them at the stake" and "vaporize them...in vinyl" comments are historically imprecise. - Enophile 09:55:52 05/02/12 (0)

I take it that "Old Believers" is the whiskey you've been drinkling this fine morning? - Enophile 08:49:38 05/02/12 (0)

RE: Old Believers. - DrChaos 08:36:36 05/02/12 (0)

RE: Old - Kloss 07:09:06 05/02/12 (0)

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