"Up Jumped the Devil", Carmen Gomes previous album, is one of the most natural sounding recordings in my 411 GB music library. The album is an tribute to Robert Johnson: "The low A, 27.5 Hz, from the bowed down tuned double bass representing the Mississippi night, the drums creating the sounds surrounding the night and the guitar being Robert’s mind."
I like her music too and would buy her recordings if they were only available at 44.1kHz - 16 bit. Her new album "Ray!" has the potential to take the sound as close to the master tape as possible.
"The RME has a maximum sample rate of 768kHz. To really see what the RME ADI-2 is capable off, we created a 768kHz/24bit file straight from our Studer A80 tape recorder playing the ¼" reel to reel master tape from our latest release [Ray!]. Listening and A/B comparing with the Studer the result is quite convincing. In our opinion the sound is very close to the analog master tape."
The Sound Liason team has made one 768kHz track from the album available for free for a limited time period.
The only favor they ask in return, is that you give them a bit of feedback.
https://www.soundliaison.com/index.php/856-ray-carmen-gomes-incSound Liason is a pioneer in using state-of-the-art equipment using one mike
"The advantages of the One Microphone approach to recording are obvious; phase coherence, perfect imaging, great sense of depth, superior realism. Another advantage is that it forces the band being recorded to really play. There is nowhere to hide, no fixing it in the mix. Our ears are much more sensitive to phase errors than we are aware of. The obvious solution to avoid phase errors is to record the whole band from one point. But until recently we didn't experienced a microphone that was up to the task. Drums and piano sounded too distant and the sound stage did not reflect what I heard standing in front of the band. The first thing that impressed me about the Josephson C700S was the natural sound of the mic and the sound off axis. This is what makes the difference between a good microphone and an average microphone. Secondly the microphone is quite unique, it has three capsules instead of the more common two.
So when recording with the Josephson C700S, instead of placing microphones at the instruments we now place the instruments around the microphone. Mixing is no longer possible. We have to create the complete sound stage at the spot by carefully moving each instrument closer or further away as well as left and right in relation to the microphone. The benefits of this way of working is that the result is completely free of phase errors and that the sound is very natural with a wide deep soundstage. So far all musicians have been struck by the incredible authenticity of the recordings and commented that they never heard their instrument sound so real and lively."
- Frans
https://www.soundliaison.com96kHZ - 24 bit Hi-res and Redbook downloads of "Up Jumped the Devil" are also available at Bandcamp for $9.23
https://carmengomes.bandcamp.com/album/up-jumped-the-devil-discovering-the-music-of-robert-johnson-part-1-a-sound-liaison-one-mic-audiophile-recordingThis is a recording by Danish audiophile label Sound Liaison One Mic + Recording using two Josephson C700A microphones. The C700A is identical to the C700S except that it has only one figure of 8 capsule. The three musicians and Carmen are in a studio recorded naturally.
