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I wonder why can't all major record studios make phenomenal sounding cd's like mapleshade. Their recordings are simply stunning! (Are there any other recording companies with similar quality recordings)?Regards.
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....so they can TAKE THE TIME to do
a good session,
do re-takes, etc.------
Mapleshade for me is anomalous. I own 3 of their CD's and my reaction to them varies. Clifford Jordan's "Live at Ethell's" is, I think, every bit as good an on-location recording as it is cracked up to be. "Lonely Woman" by Frank Kimbrough is a first rate studio recording in all respects. The Harold Ashby CD, however, (can't recall the title) is overly reverberant, indeed almost hollow sounding, for my taste, even though it was, I believe, recorded in the same facility as Kimbrough's. So it's difficult for me to draw any overall conclusions about the label based upon this small sampling.The music in all 3 cases, however, is excellent and that's what really counts.
don't know mapleshade but in the classical/crossover vein i've always been very impressed with dorian recordings...lots of great stuff there, simply miced in great concert hall acoustics...
also for a more watery (i.e. church-like) acoustic try waterlily...usually classical indian/western crossover genres
Yes! Dorian has some excellent stuff (classical). Almost anything of the Dallas SO w/ Donald Johanos. Slightly distant perspective, but speaking of dynamic range: watch out for your speakers if you set the volume too high in the quiet opening moments...Wonder why Dorian isn't more recognized in "audiophile" circles?
...that's a great question & i have no idea why dorian isn't mentioned more often...btw, i've never checked out their symphony recordings, i'm too much of a historic recordings collector i guess...but all of their solo/small group/chamber recordings that i've heard have been super...they've found some really great north american performers and put together really imaginative selections of compositions...some favorites include anything by 'the baltimore consort' which specializes in early folk music, their disc entitled 'on the banks of helicon; early music of scotland' is a delight and one of my system test discs...their lutenist ron mcfarlane is one of the best i've heard-his disc of dowland even outdoes paul o'dette imho...
Funny how people can hear the same thing and have completely different reactions. I really WANT to like Mapleshade. Everything about their stated philosophy "no mixing board, filtering, compression, eq,..." sounds appealing. I want to like them so much I bought several. They make my ears hurt. They are cut so hot that they have the dynamic range of the average major label pop recording. Wonder why?For jazz, I think the best recording is done by Telarc, ECM, and though there are not many of them, Reference Recordings. Try Dick Hyman "From the Age of Swing" RR-59CD. As good as it gets short of vinyl...
Your entitled to your opinion about our recordings, but please be accurate. Mapleshade recordings have an extremely wide dynamic range, while most commercially recorded pop CDs are just loud, flat and compressed.
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