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Just got "Rockin' the Spirit, Piano Blues, Boogie and Spirituals" on Chesky and the liner notes state the following:"This album was recorded with a single point microphone, placed approximately ten feet away in a center position between the pianos and the audience."
Can stereo be recorded with a single microphone?
Maybe the recording isn't stereo I only listened to it from behind the computer while working.
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I believe I have all the new Chesky SACDs. Top quality performances by top calibre players. Very nice microphone technique as always.These high-rez PCM transfers to SACD don't quite have the seamlessness and fluidity of pure DSD recordings. There remains a fine grittiness that belies the PCM origin, resulting in less three-dimensionality than good DSD recordings.
Not all Chesky SACDs are like this. I believe some older recordings, like the stunning Paquito D Riviera Portraits of Cuba, are transferred from original analog tapes, so these sound very smooth.
I'm not complaining though. The high rez PCM does yield superior definition and clarity and the dynamics, timbral colour and space are much better than CD.
Still I can't help imagining if they were recorded in DSD . . .
a crossing pattern, right next to, or on top of each other.
Thanks. I think that the Chesky approach to recording is an excellent way of getting great recordings: pared down to the essentials, with no limiting or compression. Which of the Chesky jazz SACDs would you recommend?
See below
Robert C. Lang
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Harry
....as the primary mic in its multichannel recordings. It can also do stereo, so it makes sense that Chesky may use it for its stereo CD's as well...especially if they later forsee issuing multichannel SACD versions.The Ambisonic mic actually has six or seven different planes of pickup, and uses electronic signal matrixing to sort the resulting signal out into 2 channel, 4 channel, and 6 channel versions.
Harry
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