by Joe Vana » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:28 am
About the title....
An Audiophile is:
An audiophile is a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.
Audiophile values may be applied at all stages of music reproduction: the initial audio recording, the production process, and the playback, which is usually in a home setting.
"Audiophile" recordings include those using conventional formats but with special attention to audio quality, as well as recordings in high-resolution formats such as Super Audio CD or DVD-Audio. Recently, there has been interest in lossless file formats such as WAV, FLAC, WMA Lossless, and Apple Lossless.
A key goal of audiophiles is to capture the experience of a live musical performance in a room with good acoustics, and reproduce it at home. It is widely agreed that this is very difficult and that even the best-regarded recording and playback systems rarely, if ever, achieve it.
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So in essence we are recording an Audiophile recording...
Recording to 2" tape....NOT into protools....not using cheap plugins yet using the real outboard gear... All vintage compressors, eq's, reverbs....and other effects....mixing the record ANALOGUE on the board....ALL REAL DRUMS....NO SAMPLES....using a real B3 instead of an emulated sound with a soft synth....NO guitar plugins, all REAL guitar sounds and effects as in REAL amps and effects......you have no idea how rare that has gotten as well!!!!!....we are using full takes, not an edited mess....if something sounds right we will use it.....but with a 4 time CMA winner behind the kit and a 9 time Grammy winner on bass who is beyond amazing of a player we have a nice head start on not worrying about a lot of that....they really are the glue....
I am an audiophile.....one of the "nuts" who spends a ton on interconnects, special custom speaker-wire and absolutely obsesses over what I am listening to....I listen INTO a recording....and that is the type of recording I would like with this record....We have the songs, the players.....now we are taking great care at how the album is being recorded and produced...beyond over the top....
I hope that makes sense....
My favorite Audiophile recordings:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Toy Matinee
Mr Mister - Go On
Toto IV
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Eagles - DCC Gold - Hotel California
Most Telarc and DCC Gold Records
The World was flat once....what happened??