Thread: SF Symphony Recording

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Post by stvnharr April 25, 2013 (1 of 28)
Here is something that may be of interest to some here:

http://www.linkwitzlab.com/Audio_production/sf_symphony.htm

Post by Castor April 25, 2013 (2 of 28)
Thank you Steven for posting one of the most interesting links to appear on this site for some time.

Post by Kveld-Úlfr April 26, 2013 (3 of 28)
Thanks indeeed !

Post by lennyw April 26, 2013 (4 of 28)
Wonderful to see some olde worlde Web1.0 html coding. Very refreshing.

Post by Lochiel April 26, 2013 (5 of 28)
That's a lot of mics! (Must have a DG engineer in there somewhere! Ha,ha.)

While I understand why conductors like to record "live", one could certainly eliminate many technical issues with the audio part of the recording by doing so without an audience present. Limitations such as not having microphones be visible to an audience would be problematic in my view to achieving the best sound. The classic Decca tree setup, for example, could not be employed for a live concert with these limitations.

On the other hand, BD/DVD video production is obviously audience dependent.

Post by AmonRa April 26, 2013 (6 of 28)
Recording live is a cost issue, slightly less than ideal microphone positioning is the penalty, as is audience noises and applause starting too early.

Some good equipment choices there, same main omnis (Sennheiser MKH 8020) and main monitors in surround setup (PMC IB2S) that I have and use...

Post by Fitzcaraldo215 April 26, 2013 (7 of 28)
I have watched and listened to a number of these SFS releases on both Blu-ray and on SACD, in all cases in Mch, including 7.1 for the Blu-rays. I highly recommend all that I have experienced, except for the sub-par sonics of the Shostakovich Symphony #5 in the Keeping Score Blu-ray. The orchestral examples accompanying the commentary on that disk were done at Davies Hall and they are fine. The full performance of the symphony was done in the Albert Hall, and it is inferior due to the hall and possibly also to engineering issues. Otherwise, I think they are excellent sonically and in terms of the performances and the commentary by MTT, especially the following from what I have experienced so far:

Adams: Harmonielehre, etc. - one of Kal Rubinson's disks of the year. SACD. Short Ride in a Fast Machine also appears on the following BR.

SFS at 100 - apodized and upsampled to 96k, this is about the best AV Blu-ray I have heard sonically. Splendid performances.

Keeping Score: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique- BR - excellent commentary by MTT and an outstanding performance of the full work. Terrific sonics.

I have not kept up with Linkwitz, but I know he was beginning to experiment with Mch playback awhile back, although clumsily and seemingly without knowledge of Mch recording techniques. Hopefully, this article by Jack Vad, the producer for the SFS, has given him an education on better playback speaker setup.

Thanks for the link.

Post by Euell Neverno April 26, 2013 (8 of 28)
Fitzcaraldo215 said:


Keeping Score: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique- BR - excellent commentary by MTT and an outstanding performance of the full work. Terrific sonics.

Do you know whether the Berlioz was a new recording or the older RCA recording redone? I liked the sound on the earlier RBCD recording, although the performance was somewhat lackluster.

Post by armenian April 26, 2013 (9 of 28)
AmonRa said:

Recording live is a cost issue, slightly less than ideal microphone positioning is the penalty, as is audience noises and applause starting too early.

Despite obvious advantages of recording live, to me the main disadvantage with live recordings is the fundamental alteration of hall acoustics, a concert hall packed with audience is no different than adding a layer of sound absorbing blanket over the entire concert hall, from recording standpoint a concert hall with dry acoustics will then become a concert hall with dead acoustics.

Some like it live, I prefer “studio” recordings.

Vahe

Post by Polarius T April 26, 2013 (10 of 28)
lennyw said:

Wonderful to see some olde worlde Web1.0 html coding. Very refreshing.

Olde worlde transposed to the new one: it's b/c of Linkwitz (these are pages from his site). I would not be surprised if he's doing it all by himself, the DIYer par excellence type of a man that he is.

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