THE BASSFACE SWING TRIO plays Gershwin
Direct-to-Disc-LP (180g) + SACD-Hybrid (SFR 357.8045.1)
Another audio-event from Stockfisch: The first vinyl release in 2007 will be a DMM-Direct-to-Disc-LP (available from March 16, 2007). Stockfisch-Records perfectly meets the conditions for such a fascinating vinyl adventure: A recording studio with an outstanding FAZIOLI grand piano (model F 228), an in-house vinyl cutting lathe and contacts to numerous ingenious musicians built up over many years.
On January 13, 2007 THE BASSFACE SWING TRIO landed in Stockfisch Studios. These amazingly talented musicians with nerves of steel are: Thilo Wagner - piano, Jean-Philippe Wadle – upright bass, Florian Hermann - drums. They played Gershwin, celebrating and improvising this music breathtakingly – and swinging!
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Thilo Wagner playing the FAZIOLI F 228-grand piano. And you can see the first microphones of our own development .
There are several ways to approach such a project. We decided to go strictly analog. To maintain this cohesion, we kept all recording paths, the mix and the signal path to the cutting head of our VMS-80 cutting lathe analog! .
Hans-Jörg Maucksch, Christian Struck, and Günter Pauler adjusting the Direct-to-Disc mixes with the SONOSAX mixing desks - both analog - before the first direct cut.
EQUIPMENT - Desks: SONOSAX SX-S and SX-ST
Microphones: GEFELL UM-75, MB 608 CL and the first microphones of our own development with the legendary NEUMANN M7 capsule and transformerless tube design -
Digital Converters: emmLabs ADC8 Mk IV (DSD) and NEXUS 28-bit (PCM) -
Dynamics: ELYSIA alpha compressor and DRAWMER S3 -
Speakers: STRAUSS Mastering-Monitor SE-MF-2 - Power amps: FLYING MOLE DAD-M100
The rack showing the ELYSIA alpha compressor which protected the DMM cutting lathe in case of unexpected drum-peaks and applied a smooth compression to the mixes: www.elysia.de. Beside the DRAWMER S3 and both of our Avalon-EQs.
What makes the result particularly interesting is the splitting of the analog stereo sum into three destinations. In addition to the direct analog signal for DMM cutting, we converted the mix into highest-grade DSD format (DIRECT STREAM DIGITAL/2,8224 MHz) - using a 1-bit converter - and into conventional digital audio format, 16-bit/44.1 kHz PCM, as well.
Cutting engineer Hendrik Pauler at the cutting lathe NEUMANN VMS-80 DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) testing intake pressure of the vacuum pump, which fixes the copper coated circular blank.
This direct-to-disc vinyl record comes with a SACD (DSD 2channel-layer) which also contains a CD-hybrid-layer. This seems to be the first opportunity ever available to compare three formats originating from the same analog source and transferred unaltered into two digital formats.
«listen to samples»
"Our Love Is Here To Stay" & "I Got Rhythm" (ca. 60sec. mp3-versions)
THE BASSFACE SWING TRIO plays Gershwin
Direct-to-Disc-LP (180g) + SACD-Hybrid more...
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limited edition (2000 LPs, numbered and signed by hand)
Order No. SFR 357.8045.1 (80 EUR+deliv.) now available
