Post by Stanbury November 14, 2009 (1 of 6)
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I am astonished that this SACD has received so many favorable reviews here: the stereo imaging is absolutely wretched! The disk is subtitled "In Stereo", and it was recorded in the earliest days of stereo, 1957. What I hear is Rollins playing out of my left speaker most of the time, but sometimes the sound drops suddenly and switches to the right speaker. It seems like the session was recorded with two microphones for Rollins, and he would move from one to the other, causing the sound to behave in a most unnatural way. An audiophile classic ? Perhaps the stereophonic effect was miraculous in 1957, but now it just sounds like a mistake.
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Post by Claude November 14, 2009 (2 of 6)
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It's a very authentic recording. Don't you think that the saxophone sounds like it's in your room?
The extreme stereo effects are part of the recording history. If you don't like it, you can forget most jazz recording up to the late 60's.
The SACD is actually not the best representation of the recording, since some artificial reverb was added. The 45rpm LP reissue or the very early MFSL CD reissue sound much better.
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Stanbury said:
I am astonished that this SACD has received so many favorable reviews here: the stereo imaging is absolutely wretched! The disk is subtitled "In Stereo", and it was recorded in the earliest days of stereo, 1957. What I hear is Rollins playing out of my left speaker most of the time, but sometimes the sound drops suddenly and switches to the right speaker. It seems like the session was recorded with two microphones for Rollins, and he would move from one to the other, causing the sound to behave in a most unnatural way. An audiophile classic ? Perhaps the stereophonic effect was miraculous in 1957, but now it just sounds like a mistake.
Sounds like Rudy van Gelder way of mixing... Wonder who was the sound tech/mix in this recoding?
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Post by Stanbury November 14, 2009 (4 of 6)
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Claude said:
It's a very authentic recording. Don't you think that the saxophone sounds like it's in your room?
There are moments when the sax is right there, as you say. But then it's suddenly somewhere else.
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Post by Stanbury November 14, 2009 (5 of 6)
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FullRangeMan said:
Wonder who was the sound tech/mix in this recoding?
The album says "Recording engineer – Roy DuNann"
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Stanbury said:
The album says "Recording engineer – Roy DuNann"
Thanks Stanbury.
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