Members scud133 Posted September 24, 2011 Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 Wildflowers (shocker because it's a Rick Rubin record) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members djwayne Posted September 24, 2011 Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 Loreena McKennitt "Live In Paris and Toronto." The cd sounds just like being there live. I know, I was at the Toronto show when they recorded it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 25, 2011 Moderators Share Posted September 25, 2011 Wildflowers (shocker because it's a Rick Rubin record) yeah, except that Richard Dodd engineered and mastered that one... That's a nice counter weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 I've mentioned this before - Wings by Michel Colombier - Produced by Herb Alpert and recorded in 1968!! It was recorded in France and The US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86MOnGjw07U&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0hc5YL6KL4&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ail8cC2klx8&feature=related there's more - some one has put the whole album up on youtube. Incredible dynamic range used throughout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members daklander Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Here's "Somebody", a sample of that John Kay "Forgotten Song and Unsung Heroes" that I like the drums on so well but also think it's one of the top recordings in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roomjello Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Wildflowers (shocker because it's a Rick Rubin record) That is really good, for a relatively loud record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roomjello Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Some of my favorite recordings are older.Off the top of my head; Open sounding stuff:-Sam Cooke's RCA stuff, -Everything off the first Elton John's greatest hits-Blood sweat and tears with DCT, especially spinning wheel. Great sounding recordings using a bit drier approach:-Mid 70's Chick Corea, 'Friends' etc... 'My Spanish Heart' especially. -Gaucho by Steely Dan and Nightfly by Donald Fagen Mostly i like stuff with space around it, played by incredible musicians using old gear and recorded as clean as possible for the old gear. I think that T-Bone Burnett fellow has done some nice work in his career. I love Bill Bottrells work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 What's the best recorded music you've ever heard in terms of sound quality? It doesn't have to be your favorite music or even something that you like, although of course, it usually is. But what is the best sounding music recordings you've ever heard? Dark Side of the Moon comes to mind. The sound of that record is so organic. You can hear the hammers on the piano, the breath of the singer, the lush choir. Its the pinnacle of sound to me. And its not even my favorite record. More recently, I really love Seal second record with No Prayer for the Dying. This record was made in the mid 90s before the level wars started. Just outstanding sound and another one made around the same time is Sades "No Ordinary Love". Wow. Just good sounding tracks all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 All I know is my toilet bowl has some great reverb. Never recorded it. You should stick your head in there and record vocals... seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 What examples are we allowed to post here? Oh, wait, this is my thread! I am King Dictator of this thread!! I hereby decree that you can post any examples you feel are the greatest music recordings with the best sound you've ever heard!! I would if I could figure out how... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Here's "Somebody", a sample of that John Kay "Forgotten Song and Unsung Heroes" that I like the drums on so well but also think it's one of the top recordings in my book. Cool song, Dak!!!! Guitars and organ sound good, nicely placed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sailorman Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Some of my favorite recordings are older.Mostly i like stuff with space around it, played by incredible musicians using old gear and recorded as clean as possible for the old gear. Agreed. One of the things I like about the Telarc Oscar Peterson recording; you can close your eyes and get the feel of being in a dark, smokey basement jazz cafe, with each of the musicians position on the stage clearly defined in front of you. There's another great recording, "Jazz at the Pawnshop", a direct to disk recording from the 70's, recorded live in some club in Sweden (if I recall correctly). The soundstage is equally well defined. I'm sure there are modern examples as well, especially in the jazz idiom, where overdubs in the studio aren't as common, eg., more likely to be recorded 'live'. Great soundstages can be created in the studio too, as evident with Dark Side, and Hourglass recordings (among others). I'm not as much a fan of the use of different reverbs per instrument, but that approach definitely has it's place as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 So much to choose from. Randomly... - Aerosmith Rocks (1976)- Tom Petty Wildflowers (1994)- k.d. lang Ing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lukenskywalker Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Me too, but my typewriter just ran out of ink...hate when that happens..back to my Telex... gotta get in touch with Rudy Von Hagenwil and ask him where he is spending the Holidays this year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Some of the Harry Nilsson stuff is simply spectacular to my way of thinking. I would point to two sort of related songs as exemplars of great work within the context of project... "Without Her," from his first album. There's some tape hiss but the sonic detail and intimacy is amazing. And, at the other end of the intimacy spectrum is "Without You," his big hit covering the Badfinger song. It's pretty damn stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Demented Avenger Posted September 26, 2011 Members Share Posted September 26, 2011 I think Franks Zappa's "One Size Fits All" sounds amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Bartus Posted September 27, 2011 Members Share Posted September 27, 2011 I'll echo Tom Petty's Wildflowers, a simply amazing sounding record, and add the following: Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (sounded great as a vinyl LP) Roger Waters - Amused To Death Beatles - Abbey Road Jackson Browne - I'm Alive (and many more) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huh? Posted September 27, 2011 Members Share Posted September 27, 2011 Gaucho-Steely Dan I have so many favorites but this one comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hush Posted September 28, 2011 Members Share Posted September 28, 2011 Oh Yeah KD Lang. I really Liked the sound on her Invincible SummerShawn Colvins Steady On and Fat City too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted September 28, 2011 Members Share Posted September 28, 2011 The Beatles recordings. Just goes to show you that it's not what you use. It's how you use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zooey Posted September 28, 2011 Members Share Posted September 28, 2011 The Beatles recordings.Just goes to show you that it's not what you use. It's how you use it. The Beatles had access to the most advanced recording technology in existence and an army of technicians in lab coats to maintain it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted September 28, 2011 I always though this was a fantastic recording... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted September 28, 2011 And this. The dryness of the piano against the open string sound. Small to big, small to big. It kills me... a bit corny but...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpB2TBIiPY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LRon Butterfly Posted September 28, 2011 Members Share Posted September 28, 2011 It wasn't Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight that changed things to a more ambient style at the time... it was this. Masterminded by Steve Lillywhite. I love the different ambiences. The drums in a stone room. The guitars with some of that room but I think returned in mono then panned off from the close mike. The vocal from bone dry to slap, slap/double, beach boys chamber and everywhere in between. This brought a slew of new sounds that people still use today. Black Sea, 1980. The Lillywhite/Padgham team started the "Collins" sound when they did Peter Garbiel's 3rd album. The technique was then used a month or so later in places on Black Sea. Padgham later used a variant of the technique on In The Air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 29, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 I've heard this song for years, but since you called our attention to it in terms of sound quality and recording, I listened to it with that frame of reference. And if this isn't an example of how choices made in the recording process affects the emotion of a song, I don't know what is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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