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Music and Media => The Music Circle => Topic started by: K.F. on 23 Jan 2015, 07:04 pm
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Best live albums, and to get off the beaten path of albums we all know only too well, I put this album from the small but highly acclaimed Sound Liaison label on top, but also because I really do think the download is superior in sound quality, even when compared to ECM's Keith Jarrett.
Bobby Timmons ''in Person'' is an old favorite with a prominent Ron Carter right in the middle of the sound stage, and no I don't think that my LP's sounds better than these hi-res downloads. I wish they did but ....that is life. On the plus side I would probably not have discovered these wonderful ''young'' musicians if I had been stuck with only listening to my vast collection of L.P's.
(This was an answer to another thread but I thought it might be a nice topic.)
1. Batik; the old Man and the Sea. (http://www.soundliaison.com/images/BatikHoes300shad.png)http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
2. Keith Jarrett; Somewhere http://www.hdtracks.com/somewhere-live-in-lucerne-2009 (http://www.hdtracks.com/somewhere-live-in-lucerne-2009)
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/hdtrack_img/HD00602527663708_185.jpg)
3. Bobby Timmons Trio ( LP)
(http://eil.com/images/main/Bobby+Timmons+-+In+Person+-+EX+-+LP+RECORD-534351.jpg)
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Bill Evans At The Village Vanguard is good.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/CompleteVillageVanguardBillEvans.jpg/220px-CompleteVillageVanguardBillEvans.jpg)
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Hope, Hugh Makasela
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Dead Can Dance - In Concert.
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Dead Can Dance - In Concert.
+ 1 :thumb:
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Tommy Emmanuel - Center Stage
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=113940)
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Go for It...Live! - Fu Manchu
http://www.allmusic.com/album/go-for-itlive!-mw0000040404 (http://www.allmusic.com/album/go-for-itlive!-mw0000040404)
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Here's just a few of many..... Clarence Gatemouth Brown " Real Life "
Townes Van Zandt " Live at The Old Quarter "
"Jazz at the Pawnshop" original pressing
Ry Cooder " Down at the Field "
Joe Williams "Live "
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Dave Grusin and the NY-LA Dream Band
Recorded live at the Budokan , Tokyo 1983
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Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, Live From Madison Square Garden (2009)
Alison Krauss + Union Station Live (2002)
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Live at Luther College (1999)
Nils Lofgren, Acoustic Live (1998)
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The latest Sound Liaison download ''Impromptu'' is incredible.
Proves that less is more 4 microphones and 2 musicians that really can play add a participating audience, and you have the formula for a great live album.
Used equipment:
Microphones:
Piano: Neumann TLM 170 (2x)
Bass: JZ V67
Room mic's: Sonodore RCM-402 (2x)
Micpre's: Neve 4081 quad pre-amp
Microphone cables: Grimm Audio TPR
Mixing headphones: Sennheiser HD800
Mixing speakers: Grimm Audio LS1, TAD CR1
Master clock: Grimm Audio CC1
(http://www.soundliaison.com/images/tony-bert-300v1.jpg)
in DSD , PCM and Flac; http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
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REO Speedwagon, You get what you play for.....
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=116688)
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REO Speedwagon, You get what you play for.....
+1, at their best imo
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Porupine Tree, Coma Divine, Live in Rome
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=116692)
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The best sounding live album for me lately is 11yr old Jackie Evancho's live version of the PBS concert 2011, most of the cuts are better than the studio version plus there are some tracks on it not on the commercial version.
Jim :roll: :thumb:
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Bill Evans!
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Sunday at the Village Vanguard is the initial volume of a mammoth recording session by the Bill Evans Trio, from June 25, 1961 at New York's Village Vanguard documenting Evans' first trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. Its companion volume is Waltz for Debby. This trio is still widely regarded as his finest, largely because of the symbiotic interplay between its members. Tragically, LaFaro was killed in an automobile accident ten days after this session was recorded, and Evans assembled the two packages a few months afterward. While "Waltz for Debby" -- in retrospect -- is seemingly a showcase for Evans' brilliant, subtle, and wide-ranging pianism, this volume becomes an homage, largely, to the genius and contribution of LaFaro. That said, however, this were never the point. According to Motian, when Evans built this trio based on live gigs at the Basin Street East, the intention was always to develop a complete interactive trio experience. At the time, this was an unheard of notion, since piano trios were largely designed to showcase the prowess of the front line soloist with rhythmic accompaniment. Here, one need listen no further than the elegant and haunting, graceful modal reading of "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy & Bess to know that there is something completely balanced and indescribably beautiful in their approach. Motian's brushes whisper along the ride cymbals and both Evans and LaFaro enter into a dialogue that emerges from a darkly hued minor mode, into the melody and somehow beyond it, into a form of seamless dialogic improvisation to know that in the act of one musician slipping over and under another -- as happens with all three in an aural basket weave -- is something utterly new and different, often imitated but never replicated. But in a sense it happens before this, on LaFaro's "Gloria's Step," which opens the recording. His thematic statement includes the briefest intro, hesitant and spacious before he and pianist enter into a harmonic and contrapuntal conversation underscored by the hushed dynamics of Motian's snare, and the lightning-fast interlocutions of single string and chorded playing of LaFaro. The shapshifting reading of Miles Davis' "Solar," is a place where angularity, counterpoint, and early modalism all come together in a knotty and insistent, yet utterly seamless blend of post-bop aesthetics and expanded harmonic intercourse with Motian, whose work, while indispensable in the balance of the trio, comes more into play here, and is more assertive with his half-time accents to frame the counterpoint playing of Evans and LaFaro. This is a great place to begin with Evans. Review by Thom Jurek
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"To The Bone" by The Kinks is live studio and stage. Played and produced really well.
"The Real Deal" Buddy Guy and G.E. Smith. Buddy has a slew of live that are memorable.
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Hot Tuna's first album, Neil Young's Live at Massey Hall, Pink Floyd's Pulse, Zappa/Mothers Roxy and Elsewhere, Mothers Just Another Band From LA are all real good.
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Bowie-A Reality Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIZzxnoLK7A&index=17&list=PLJ8y7DDcrI_rE7bcgw-UUpYhgnl5Dko4k
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Two completely different genres, both very engaging live performances:
Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus http://www.allmusic.com/album/waiting-for-columbus-mw0000194604 (http://www.allmusic.com/album/waiting-for-columbus-mw0000194604)
Carmen McRae & Betty Carter, Duets http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-great-american-music-hall-san-francisco-mw0000867137 (http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-great-american-music-hall-san-francisco-mw0000867137)
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Hope, Hugh Makasela
Yes, Hope is one of the best live albums ever recorded.
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/841/MI0001841265.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
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Chris Botti in Boston...
Nice jazz album...
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Thanks for your topic, K.F. Keep em coming.
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In vinyl the Focus Live at the Rainbow had a stunning sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-a1PLxhuQc
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Go for It...Live! - Fu Manchu
http://www.allmusic.com/album/go-for-itlive!-mw0000040404 (http://www.allmusic.com/album/go-for-itlive!-mw0000040404)
I stumbled on that one a few years ago and was stunned how great it sounded - music and recording-wise.
Another more obvious audiophile favorite is Nils Lofgren / Acoustic Live, especially the "Keith Don't Go" track. That one will make even a clock radio sound great.
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This one comes highly recommended;
(http://www.soundliaison.com/images/PaulBandMilan300.png)http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
Monty Alexander Trio alumni Paul Berner has made an achingly beautiful '' Americana Jazz'' album, with reed player Michael Moore in top form, practically speaking to you with his clarinet and saxophone. The album employing two guitars and no drums makes Bill Frisell come to mind. The inter play between the two guitars is incredible.
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(http://eil.com/images/main/Carmen-Mcrae-Live-At-Sugar-Hil-534426.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRVDuuFVqI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRVDuuFVqI)
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Damien Rice - Live at Fingerprints Warts and All http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Fingerprints-Warts-All/dp/B008Y0V52K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429381796&sr=8-1&keywords=fingerprints+warts+and+all
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Like Damien Rice - have not heard the live album yet. Listened last night to a bunch of things. Roy Orbison's 'Black and White Night' on DVD-A is pretty good as is Patricia Barber's 'Companion' sounded really nice too.
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Hope, Hugh Makasela
Very good indeed. I believe I read somewhere that it was recorded in 16/44.1, yet the sound quality is up there with my favorite ECM and Sound Liaison live recordings.
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/841/MI0001841265.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
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K.F. and PA, welcome to AC. I have that Carmen McRae album.
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' "Live at Keystone 3" (Concord Jazz) and Kenny Barron with a quintet "Live at Fat Tuesday's" (Enja). Burners the both!
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Best Keiko album, great band, great voice, great SQ :thumb:
Keiko Lee: Live 1999
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6foNHy-ic
(http://www.hifido.co.jp/photo/11/331/33152/a.jpg)
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Good singer!
Never heard of her, something new to check out, thanks.
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Holly Cole - "It Happened One Night"
Live recording from June 28, 1995 at the St. Denis Theatre in Montreal.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=120241)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdVr53DFGmY
(http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/pochs_g/098476.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71RdWBhvByL._SL500_.jpg)
Always at their best live, this one smokes.......
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Great indie / dream pop:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519XK8WEHDL.jpg)
Can't vouch for the digital version, but my vinyl is fantastic. Ballsy and torquey sound w/ great slammin bass, big immersive stage and warm tone. Quite detailed and dynamic, yet remains smooth and sweet w/ lovely mids. Muscular and weighty...nothing puny about this album. Puts you right in the small club where it was recorded.
This is the way live albums should sound! :thumb:
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The brand new (released this week) Jethro Tull 40th Anniversary; la Grande Edition of Minstrel in the Gallery includes a concert from Paris, July 5, 1975, the only professionally recorded live material from what I believe was Tull’s most powerful lineup.
The concert was filmed but sadly, according to the liner notes, the reels have been either lost or destroyed. Thankfully the audio tracks survived and about two thirds of the concert is presented her.e I feel what we have here the best 77 minutes of live Tull ever released. In fact, it may be the best live rock recording I’ve ever heard.
IJakko Jakszyk has done a beautiful job of capturing the intensity and excitement of the stage performance in 5.1 surround and stereo mix. The sound is spectacular for a 1975 recording; for the first time we have a live document of how tight this band was on stage in the mid-70s, playing in perfect lock-step, hard rock with a jazz twist, some blues and a classical string quartet. Barriemore Barlow’s drums come through loud and clear in the mix and prove that, with the possible exception of Keith Moon, he was the finest drummer in rock. The last half-hour of the show belongs to Mr Barre on the electric guitar whose playing on Backdoor Angels, Locomotive Breath and Hard Headed English General has to be heard to be believed. But of course the star of the show is Ian Anderson whose flute dazzles, especially during My God, Bouree and Cross-eyed Mary.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=120958)
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=120959)
Jethro Tull’s concerts in the 70s were legendary, a band without peer. If you’ve ever wondered what all the hoopla was about, you must listen to this show. For the hundreds of thousands who attended those concerts all of those decades ago, this is the recording that will put you right back into the audience, it’s that good.
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K.F. and PA, welcome to AC. I have that Carmen McRae album.
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' "Live at Keystone 3" (Concord Jazz) and Kenny Barron with a quintet "Live at Fat Tuesday's" (Enja). Burners the both!
Thanks!
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Sone great live blues:
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=123782)
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=123783)
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=123784)
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Best live albums, and to get off the beaten path of albums we all know only too well, I put this album from the small but highly acclaimed Sound Liaison label on top, but also because I really do think the download is superior in sound quality, even when compared to ECM's Keith Jarrett.
Bobby Timmons ''in Person'' is an old favorite with a prominent Ron Carter right in the middle of the sound stage, and no I don't think that my LP's sounds better than these hi-res downloads. I wish they did but ....that is life. On the plus side I would probably not have discovered these wonderful ''young'' musicians if I had been stuck with only listening to my vast collection of L.P's.
(This was an answer to another thread but I thought it might be a nice topic.)
1. Batik; the old Man and the Sea. (http://www.soundliaison.com/images/BatikHoes300shad.png)http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
2. Keith Jarrett; Somewhere http://www.hdtracks.com/somewhere-live-in-lucerne-2009 (http://www.hdtracks.com/somewhere-live-in-lucerne-2009)
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/hdtrack_img/HD00602527663708_185.jpg)
3. Bobby Timmons Trio ( LP)
(http://eil.com/images/main/Bobby+Timmons+-+In+Person+-+EX+-+LP+RECORD-534351.jpg)
nice session video of Batik;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJVtFRjqSnE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJVtFRjqSnE)
(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zJVtFRjqSnE/maxresdefault.jpg)
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''Keith Jarrett at the Deerhead inn'' is good;(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71NqFIlH8TL._SX355_.jpg)
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I'd like to toss in a vote for Eva Cassidy 'Live at Blues Alley'.
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(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=126766)
Clear, Dynamic, analog!
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(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=126773)
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Garcia / Grisman The Pizza Tapes. May not be the best technically, but such an intimate & you are there feel.
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Canadian Russell Dawkins, a former Audio Circle contributor, recorded this and its a SOTA recording of a live concert of four international guitarists: Clive Carroll, Miguel de la Bastide, Brian Gore, and a self taught fellow from Madagascar, D'Gary. It was the latter that perked my interest as I had recently heard him on the radio: International Guitar Night II (www.internationalguitarnight.com). This is in the vanguard of "best sounding live albums", trust me, and the playing is out of this world. Enjoy or miss out on a treasure. Cheers.
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Canadian Russell Dawkins, a former Audio Circle contributor, recorded this and its a SOTA recording of a live concert of four international guitarists: Clive Carroll, Miguel de la Bastide, Brian Gore, and a self taught fellow from Madagascar, D'Gary. It was the latter that perked my interest as I had recently heard him on the radio: International Guitar Night II (www.internationalguitarnight.com). This is in the vanguard of "best sounding live albums", trust me, and the playing is out of this world. Enjoy or miss out on a treasure. Cheers.
You guys are killing me. :lol: After listening to just two small clips I had to buy tickets to see them February 5th! Is any of this available on vinyl???
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Neil Young at Massey Hall is surprisingly good, as well as Leonard Cohen in Paris. As mentioned before, Little Feat Waiting for Columbus and Patricia Barber Companion are well worth owning.
That said, Lee Ritenour "Overtime" on Blu-ray is the best audio and video quality I've encountered, recorded live in a largish studio in front of a small audience. Truly spectacular sound and picture, lite jazz mostly, but it has some very good players and good moments.
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Diana Krall - Live in Paris (well recorded)
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(http://eil.com/images/main/Carmen-Mcrae-Live-At-Sugar-Hil-534426.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRVDuuFVqI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRVDuuFVqI)
So, I'm sitting in The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco and Cannonball Adderly and his quintet have just finished a set when I hear a voice right behind me . . "Yes, Cannon". I recognized that voice immediately to be Carmen McRae. She was on break from her gig across the street at Sugar Hill. Makes me wonder if she wasn't recording this album at that time.
Her album "Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics" (Columbia) is to die for.
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The Mighty Sam Mclain, 17th Annual Blues Festival. Also Hugh Masekela "Hope". Both available at Acoustic Sounds, and both sound GLORIOUS!
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I've become quite familiar with the Umphrey's McGee live stuff, as I've been lathe-cutting a batch of them for the band. They record pretty much EVERYTHING they perform from what I can tell. Every year they release of Hall of Fame, which are the best live recordings from that particular year. Very well recorded, and the performances are stunning.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=129337)
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I wonder if Van Morrison's - Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl - counts.
It sounds great but it sounds like you are at the concert listening to the PA speakers.
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Canadian Russell Dawkins, a former Audio Circle contributor, recorded this and its a SOTA recording of a live concert of four international guitarists: Clive Carroll, Miguel de la Bastide, Brian Gore, and a self taught fellow from Madagascar, D'Gary. It was the latter that perked my interest as I had recently heard him on the radio: International Guitar Night II (www.internationalguitarnight.com). This is in the vanguard of "best sounding live albums", trust me, and the playing is out of this world. Enjoy or miss out on a treasure. Cheers.
Thanks for the mention Jim! I still have the masters and may one day play around with a re-mix of at least one of the tracks - Clive Caroll's tribute to Michael Hedges - 'Aerial Discoveries'. I would like to include the introduction and reduce the compression. It is pretty spectacular with less compression and I'm afraid I bowed a bit to what I perceived the client would want/expect even though I would have chosen a quieter average level (and more dynamic sound) if I were mixing for myself.
Russell
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I unknow Russel is a rec man congrats.
No compression is the way to go for sound quality.
As demoed many times in rock music musicians like compression.
The morons think a louder sound is better sound quality.
They dont have interest in a better sound CD for the fans.
They want a louder CD to listen in the car, Unfortunately.
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I unknow Russel is a rec man congrats.
No compression is the way to go for sound quality.
As demoed many times in rock music musicians like compression.
The morons think a louder sound is better sound quality.
They dont have interest in a better sound CD for the fans.
They want a louder CD to listen in the car, Unfortunately.
It's not as simple as that.
No compression is not the way to go for 99.9% of listening situations. The trick is to do it properly.
When we listen to the real thing, our hearing mechanism does an awful lot of compression without our realizing it.
To duplicate the live experience, in my view, compression is necessary. It took me 15 years to come to grips with this after thinking it through over and over.
By the way, there is an equivalent challenge with photography. Due to our way of seeing, which involves dynamic compression, digital photos, raw, can look too contrasty.
The shadows have to be lightened and the highlights darkened to better simulate what we experience with our eyes. The film process does this as a by-product
of the process in a way similar to what analog tape does–both reduce dynamic range in a pleasant way. I believe this to be at the heart of the preference for sound recorded on tape,
or even passing through a tape stage when having been digitally recorded.
Finally it is unfair to categorize rock musicians as morons because they like compression.
I see too many instances of un-informed audiophiles glibly bashing the recording engineers and musicians in such a way.
Generally everyone involved is passionately striving for the absolute best sound they can come up with to express themselves and please you, the consumer.
I used to think that way before I became involved in the process and found out the recordings I was hoping to emulate or improve upon were in fact damn good and almost impossible to equal,
let alone improve upon.
30 years later I still feel the same.
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Thanks Russell for you reply.
I have no experience in mastering so I will believe you.
I have know how no compression sound only afew years
ago when listening IsoMike CDs.
Ray said he dont use compression the sound was stellar.
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Back in 2005 I sent a completely un-compressed orchestral recording out to a number of Audiocircle members. Some found that their systems
did not have enough gain with their volume controls at max to make the quiet section sufficiently audible, then, when the peaks came around,
they did not have enough system headroom for their systems not to distort. This was a recording of a 95 piece orchestra playing Prokofiev's
Romeo an Juliet Suite. There are a couple of fortissimo chords near the start of the piece, each followed by the violins playing extremely quietly.
I believe it is written ffff and pppp, in opposition to music notation convention of the time, which would have been fff and ppp, only.
The dynamic swing is around 60dB which would never conventionally allowed. The conductor, with true audiophile sentiment, did not want it compressed
and I went along with that, being similarly crazy in 1994.
Trouble is, it's near-unplayable. Tsk!
I've since re-mastered it to have the same dynamic swing reduced to 45dB or so. It's still exciting.
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I sorry to hear it, I unknow the situation was so dramatic.
Do you believe IsoMile SACDs are uncompressed?
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I sorry to hear it, I unknow the situation was so dramatic.
Do you believe IsoMile SACDs are uncompressed?
If they say so, they must be.
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It's not as simple as that.
No compression is not the way to go for 99.9% of listening situations. The trick is to do it properly.
When we listen to the real thing, our hearing mechanism does an awful lot of compression without our realizing it.
To duplicate the live experience, in my view, compression is necessary. It took me 15 years to come to grips with this after thinking it through over and over.
By the way, there is an equivalent challenge with photography. Due to our way of seeing, which involves dynamic compression, digital photos, raw, can look too contrasty.
The shadows have to be lightened and the highlights darkened to better simulate what we experience with our eyes. The film process does this as a by-product
of the process in a way similar to what analog tape does–both reduce dynamic range in a pleasant way. I believe this to be at the heart of the preference for sound recorded on tape,
or even passing through a tape stage when having been digitally recorded.
Finally it is unfair to categorize rock musicians as morons because they like compression.
I see too many instances of un-informed audiophiles glibly bashing the recording engineers and musicians in such a way.
Generally everyone involved is passionately striving for the absolute best sound they can come up with to express themselves and please you, the consumer.
I used to think that way before I became involved in the process and found out the recordings I was hoping to emulate or improve upon were in fact damn good and almost impossible to equal,
let alone improve upon.
30 years later I still feel the same.
Thanks for the info and perspective Russell. All too often we are too quick to jump to conclusions and make judgements re sound quality without context of all the factors involved. Just because recording tools are miss used some times doesn't mean there wasn't a good sound quality reason for their development. It s all too easy for us arm chair experts to let a little knowledge lead us to not give enough credit to the many people who have devoted a good chunk of their careers and lives to developing them.
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It's not as simple as that.
No compression is not the way to go for 99.9% of listening situations. The trick is to do it properly.
When we listen to the real thing, our hearing mechanism does an awful lot of compression without our realizing it.
To duplicate the live experience, in my view, compression is necessary. It took me 15 years to come to grips with this after thinking it through over and over.
By the way, there is an equivalent challenge with photography. Due to our way of seeing, which involves dynamic compression, digital photos, raw, can look too contrasty.
The shadows have to be lightened and the highlights darkened to better simulate what we experience with our eyes. The film process does this as a by-product
of the process in a way similar to what analog tape does–both reduce dynamic range in a pleasant way. I believe this to be at the heart of the preference for sound recorded on tape,
or even passing through a tape stage when having been digitally recorded.
Finally it is unfair to categorize rock musicians as morons because they like compression.
I see too many instances of un-informed audiophiles glibly bashing the recording engineers and musicians in such a way.
Generally everyone involved is passionately striving for the absolute best sound they can come up with to express themselves and please you, the consumer.
I used to think that way before I became involved in the process and found out the recordings I was hoping to emulate or improve upon were in fact damn good and almost impossible to equal,
let alone improve upon.
30 years later I still feel the same.
Very well put, Russel, thanks.
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Live at Montreux- Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie Quintet (Windam Hill). The music is fab, too.
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(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=132571)
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This came out a few weeks ago and sounds fantastic to my ears. Caledonia Soul Orchestra, tight and soulful in 1973.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=146088)
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I saw the video on PBS. I think the percussionist grew up without a drum kit and learned to improvise. Probably made his parents crazy.
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Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Revisited (2011). Essentially recording using modern techniques (i.e., less noise), using original arrangements of Trinity Sessions in the same church as original.
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Pulse - Pink Floyd
Rock On!!
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The new DXD recording from Sound Liaison; Carmen Gomes Sings the Blues, is easily one off the best sounding live albums I have ever heard.
Nagra used the album at the High End audio show in Munich to show off their new equipment.
For anybody interested there is only a few days left of the 33% off introduction offer .
(http://www.soundliaison.com/images/CSTB300shadowv2.png)http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
https://youtu.be/Kf_S2l3Y_lM?t=5 (https://youtu.be/Kf_S2l3Y_lM?t=5)
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Not a big "bluegrass" fan, by any means, however Allison Krauss + Union Station Live (2CD set) sounds very nice to my old ears.
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++ on AKUS live efforts.
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I'm a old rocker. This is a well done, slowed down take for the Wilson sisters at some club in Seattle. Even some orchestral arraignments. A favorite for many years now.
Heart, The Road Home
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I agree AKUS is very nice sounding. I have to disagree on the Carmen Gomes album, the music is very clean and crisp but the soundstage is terrible. I usually have a nice wide and deep soundstage but with this album most of the music is in a 5 ft circle 10-12 ft back of the speakers and slightly to the left of center with an occasional instrument 10-12 ft back and slightly to the right of center. This is my only 256 DSD music file and I was expecting something more.
I have to give Soundliaison credit for great customer service, I had trouble downloading the files ( lossy internet ) and they spent 3 days helping my work through it.
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The Wailin' Jennys
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Not a big "bluegrass" fan, by any means, however Allison Krauss + Union Station Live (2CD set) sounds very nice to my old ears.
Very Good indeed!
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Not a big "bluegrass" fan, by any means, however Allison Krauss + Union Station Live (2CD set) sounds very nice to my old ears.
Yes, indeed. :thumb: +2
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The Wailin' Jennys
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+1 on the Wailin Jennys, a truly great album with impeccable harmonies. I started with the standards: Bring me little water, Sylvie, Summertime and Motherless Child, but quickly got to the ones they wrote including Paint a Picture and,especially, the sublime Calling All Angels.
Great Choice
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The new DXD recording from Sound Liaison; Carmen Gomes Sings the Blues, is easily one off the best sounding live albums I have ever heard.
Nagra used the album at the High End audio show in Munich to show off their new equipment.
For anybody interested there is only a few days left of the 33% off introduction offer .
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https://youtu.be/Kf_S2l3Y_lM?t=5 (https://youtu.be/Kf_S2l3Y_lM?t=5)
and Schnerzinger and Zellaton as well. That album is in good company!
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Schnerzinger and Zellaton plays Sound Liaison at the Munich High End Show 2017 Schnerzinger and Zellaton plays Sound Liaison at the Munich High End Show 2017 (http://Schnerzinger and Zellaton plays Sound Liaison at the Munich High End Show 2017)
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Fleetwood Mac Live (1980)
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Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Animal, simply the late Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter at their best. The intel is sublime.
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The latest Sound Liaison download ''Impromptu'' is incredible.
Proves that less is more 4 microphones and 2 musicians that really can play add a participating audience, and you have the formula for a great live album.(http://www.soundliaison.com/images/tony-bert-300v1.jpg)
in DSD , PCM and Flac; http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
Those hi res downloads are all on sale this week 33% off. (https://www.soundliaison.com/images/PaulBandMilan200.png)(https://www.soundliaison.com/images/CSTB200shadowv3.png)(https://www.soundliaison.com/images/TSOB200v4-130-10-10-75.png)
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Get the latest just released DXD/DSD recording, ''This Bird has Flown'' RubberSoul revisited. The SQ is incredible.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsxW4rNQN60 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsxW4rNQN60)
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I am not a big lover of Hip Hop but this group from South Africa is the whole package. No sampling just a great band that can jam. A very good live recording.
Tumi And The Volume Live At The Bassline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzhNpZUz1g
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Deep Purple--Live in Japan. Awesome sounding double album. You can't sit still listening to Highway Star. Some parts of the album are just beautifully clear and dynamic. Most of their best stuff is on this album with fantastic renditions.
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"The Who" Live at Leeds
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Deep Purple--Live in Japan. Awesome sounding double album. You can't sit still listening to Highway Star. Some parts of the album are just beautifully clear and dynamic. Most of their best stuff is on this album with fantastic renditions.
One of the albums that got me started as a serious music listener!
I am more of a jazz fan nowadays but I still like it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vhEHUOBRU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vhEHUOBRU)
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Get the latest just released DXD/DSD recording, ''This Bird has Flown'' RubberSoul revisited. The SQ is incredible.
(https://www.soundliaison.com/images/PaulBErnerBandTBHF200DXD.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsxW4rNQN60 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsxW4rNQN60)
I did get it and I find it absolutely stunning.
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Can't believe this thread made it to 5 pages without this one being nominated :scratch:
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Another excellent one for its time (early 60s)
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Can't believe this thread made it to 5 pages without this one being nominated :scratch:
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I have this album in SACD, very good organic sound from a analog tape recorded live, the music also is great.
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PS FRM: There's a different release called 'The Fillmore Concerts' in which the two lead guitars are mixed a little less 'hot', probably a more accurate representation of how it sounded at the concert but takes some getting used to when you've been listening to the album for 40+ years. It has material from both nights. 'Elizabeth Reed' on that release is a splice job between two performances to combine the 'best' parts, a practice that I have misgivings about.
Back in my vinyl-spinning days, I had the Nautilus half-speed-mastered version of Fillmore East, which sounded very good.
Two personal notes: I had a friend who was at these shows and was always jealous of that. I also had a chance to see the Allmans on 10/17/71 in what was as far as I know the last show featuring the original lineup, a double bill with B.B. King at Painter's Mill in Owings Mills, MD. They jammed together :o And where was I? I had free tickets to John Denver, which was good (it was before he went commercial, just a three piece acoustic group), but if I had a time machine I'd go back and hear the Allmans. (Frank Zappa was at the Lyric Theatre and the last game of the World Series that day too- busy day in Baltimore.)
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Oh Nice, thanks Cooper for your first hand story.
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The new DXD recording from Sound Liaison; Carmen Gomes Sings the Blues, is easily one off the best sounding live albums I have ever heard.
Nagra used the album at the High End audio show in Munich to show off their new equipment.
For anybody interested there is only a few days left of the 33% off introduction offer .
(http://www.soundliaison.com/images/CSTB300shadowv2.png)http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/)
https://youtu.be/Kf_S2l3Y_lM?t=5 (https://youtu.be/Kf_S2l3Y_lM?t=5)
LP version made from analog tape is now available but not at the S.L. site but here;
https://www.rhapsodyanalogrecordings.com/master-tape-catalog/carmen-gomes-inc/ (https://www.rhapsodyanalogrecordings.com/master-tape-catalog/carmen-gomes-inc/)
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Oh Nice, thanks Cooper for your first hand story.
yes, thanks.
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As there are lots of them,I'll throw in just a few, on cd. My records continue to wait for me to re-animate them from dust.
. Joshua Redman Quartet " Spirit of the Moment .......Live at the Village Vanguard
.Little Feat " Waiting for Columbus " as already listed a few years back
.Chris Smither " Live As I'll Ever Be " the last song , Killin' the Blues (by Rowland Salley ) if you want a sad,sad song
.Leonard Cohen " Live in London "
Rhythm Room Blues on Hightone Records good you are there sound ........and the place is still going strong, as per google
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https://tidal.com/album/35088169
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Built To Spill - Live
I've always loved the separation between the guitars. The cover of Cortez the Killer goes on for 20 mins, but I think it's, ummm, killer :-)
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Enjoying Muddy "Mississippi"Waters live
you are there feel to the. L.p.
Full House live the J Geils band intensive live recording.
Burnside on Burnside you can feel the sawdust and smell the beer. Down right hypnotic, hard to believe its just two guitars, voice and drums.
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Untapped Blues Festival:2004 Live is excellent :thumb:
Arnie
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Keith Jarrett Trio - I Fall In Love Too Easily
Live in Tokyo
Keith Jarrett Trio - I Fall In Love Too Easily (http://Keith Jarrett Trio - I Fall In Love Too Easily)
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I reckon for me it has to be Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells 2 live in Edinburgh! Wish I'd been there.
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Yes, Hope is one of the best live albums ever recorded.
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Still remember the first time I heard this! Shivers! Electrostatic speakers. Amazing.
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Can't go wrong with this one
Abstract Logix Live! The New Universe Music Festival 2010
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Not to be out done by this one!
Marcus put together one kick ass band on this one.......super fantastic group of super talented musicians!!!
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Simon and Garfunkel - The New York Concert, 1967, Carnegie Hall. Picked up the CD at Half-Price books the other day. Great recording and it takes me back to being 16. WONDERFUL music!
Oddly timely today.
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Don Menza Sextet - Live at Carmelo's Jazz Club
2 CD-set (previously released album "Hip Pocket" + 6 unreleased tracks from the same gig)
Fresh Sound Records label (Spain), 24 BIT
Excellent bop-revival music and recording.
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Neil Diamond, Hot August Night, especially the Mo-Fi version.
And who can forget Harry Belafonte in Carnegie Hall? :notworthy:
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The CD is very, very good!
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"....These guys and this recording just rocks. Pace, rhythm, tone and soundstage are just off the charts. The precise placement of all four of the musicians perfectly matches the photos of the sessions. The balance of all four instruments is darn near perfect. As you can no doubt tell, I am a huge fan of this recording. It is one of the best in terms of recording quality I have ever heard."
Joe Whip in Audiophile Style
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Listened to the Doobie Brothers Farewell Tour live album in 24-bit/96kHz on Qobuz and will have to say the two panned drum kits sounded really nice. Knowing the level of quality these guys demand there probably was some studio magic involved in the mixdown but overall a great recording.
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Listened to the Doobie Brothers Farewell Tour live album in 24-bit/96kHz on Qobuz and will have to say the two panned drum kits sounded really nice. Knowing the level of quality these guys demand there probably was some studio magic involved in the mixdown but overall a great recording.
That's the good part of them having 2 drummers, you've got to give the drums a place in the sound field instead of the more common modern way of panning the whole drum kit left to right.
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Same label with a new album with a fitting titel for these troubled times;
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Superb SQ but very melancholic music.
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I bought the 24/48 download of the below album and thought the sound quality was really nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgb0rsHUM00
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A great performance and an outstanding live recording.
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A great performance and an outstanding live recording.
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charles
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+1 for Little Feat Waiting for Columbus. Add these two:
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