Artist: VA
Album: Best Of Chesky Classics & Jazz & Audiophile Test Disc, Vol. 3
Released: 1994
Genre: Jazz
Duration: 01:16:29
Tracklisting:01. Ana Caram / Africando
(3:44)02. Livingston Taylor / Out Of This World
(2:41)03. Leny Andrade / Wave
(5:50)04. Connecticut Early Music Festival Ensemble, Igor Kipnis, harpsichord and director. / Winter, Vivaldi from The Four Seasons, Allegro Non Molto
(3:27)05. Rebecca Pidgeon / Grandmother
(6:25)06. Orquesta Nova / Battery Park
(5:08)07. Laverne Butler / I Cover The Waterfront
(6:07)08. Sara K. / Horse I Used To Ride
(4:26)09. Fred Hersch / Trio Con Alma
(5:57)10. Badi Assad / Num Pagode Em Plalantina
(4:41)11. Westminster Choir, Joseph Flummerfelt, conductor. / Ave Verum Corpus, Mozart
(3:39)12. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / Introduction, Artificial Stereo
(1:26)13. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / Mono Mike
(0:38)14. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / Artificial Stereo
(0:46)15. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / XY Cardioid Technique
(0:40)16. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / XY and added ambience
(0:43)17. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / XY with increased ambience
(0:45)18. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / Crossed Figure8's
(0:46)19. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / Spaced Pair of Omnis
(0:42)20. Artificial Stereo and Microphone Techniques / Three Spaced Omnis
(0:44)21. Instrument Placement / Announcement
(0:15)22. Instrument Placement / Piano against the wall of the studio
(0:24)23. Instrument Placement / Piano in the middle of studio
(0:17)24. Natural vs. Artificial Space / Announcement
(0:24)25. Natural vs. Artificial Space / Drum set recorded in a dry studio
(1:00)26. Natural vs. Artificial Space / Drum set in a live studio
(0:52)27. Natural vs. Artificial Space / Drum set with artificial reverbaration
(0:46)28. Natural vs. Artificial Imaging / Natural stereo imaging
(1:44)29. Natural vs. Artificial Imaging / Artificial stereo imaging
(1:28)30. Natural vs. Compressed Dynamics / Introduction to compressors
(0:58)31. Natural vs. Compressed Dynamics / Jazz group with compression
(0:15)32. Natural vs. Compressed Dynamics / Jazz group without compression
(0:15)33. New 20-bit High Resolution Technology / Introduction
(2:05)34. Dirty vs. Clean power / Violin recorded with 'dirty' power.
(0:24)35. Dirty vs. Clean power / Violin recorded with 'clean' power.
(0:25)36. Digital vs. Analog tape / 20/bit, all digital recording
(0:44)37. Digital vs. Analog tape / 20/bit recordind made from analog tape
(0:45)38. Chesky / Equipment and Cable Burn/in Signal
(1:07)39. Volume Level Warning / WARNING! The rest of this CD is recorded at low level.
(0:09)40. 16 bit vs. 20 bit AD / Music at /30dB into 16 bit system
(0:45)41. 16 bit vs. 20 bit AD / Music at /30dB into 20 bit with high resolution dither
(0:42)42. Fade To Noise (low level resolution) Tests / Fade To Noise, no dither
(0:19)43. Fade To Noise (low level resolution) Tests / Fade To Noise, flat dither
(0:30)44. Fade To Noise (low level resolution) Tests / Fade To Noise, high resolution dither
(0:32)45. Volume Level Warning / WARNING! Turn your monitor volume down to normal after these tests!
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