Favourite engineered album?
Sep 11, 2009 at 3:42 AM Post #106 of 120
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Sometimes it's in the subtle details.

For this I use my remaster of Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers. It sounds great on any system. On a bad system, Sinatra's voice sounds dry and fantastic.

On a truly great system or pair of headphones, you can hear Sinatra's mouth open before he speaks, you can hear a little bit of natural reverb from Capitols recording studio and you can hear all types of little nuances.



Is that the gold disc, LFF?
 
Sep 12, 2009 at 1:53 AM Post #108 of 120
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"Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine

The amount of time and effort (not to mention money) that went solely into the sound engineering of this album is readily apparent in the perfectly textured end result.



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Sep 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM Post #110 of 120
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Is that the gold disc, LFF?


No. The gold disc sucks. For that matter - all the CD's suck. This is a remaster I made from a mint west coast 1st pressing mono gray label vinyl. Sounds amazing.
 
Sep 16, 2009 at 5:47 PM Post #111 of 120
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Originally Posted by LFF /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Sometimes it's in the subtle details.

For this I use my remaster of Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers. It sounds great on any system. On a bad system, Sinatra's voice sounds dry and fantastic.

On a truly great system or pair of headphones, you can hear Sinatra's mouth open before he speaks, you can hear a little bit of natural reverb from Capitols recording studio and you can hear all types of little nuances.



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Originally Posted by LFF /img/forum/go_quote.gif
No. The gold disc sucks. For that matter - all the CD's suck. This is a remaster I made from a mint west coast 1st pressing mono gray label vinyl. Sounds amazing.



Sounds great, Shame we can't get to hear it.
 
Oct 22, 2014 at 4:43 PM Post #112 of 120
I'll reinvigorate this thread with my favorite:

Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani

It is a huge departure from all of his other albums, and nearly everything was recorded live, where his prior (and subsequent) efforts have all been carefully arranged. I love the organic feel of this album and the space each of the players gets. I think his albums lost some luster when he started self-recording, but this one and The Extremist just shine.
 
Sep 27, 2023 at 5:06 PM Post #113 of 120
I created this thread over 16.5 years ago, and I still come back to many of these suggestions, all these years later. Big thanks to the Head-Fiers of old for some great suggestions. So, let's keep it going in 2023! :ksc75smile:

I'll start us back up with a new suggestion: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (engineered by Kenneth Douglas Caillat). This one totally caught me off guard. I downloaded this album in Apple Lossless and gave it a spin with some Westone Mach 80s (w/ iFi GoPod) and was totally blown away by the quality of the recording. I grew up with this album as a kid, but haven't given it much critical listening time since getting into our beloved hobby in my 20s. I was amazed at how much effort and attention to detail was seemingly paid to the recording of this album. Instruments and vocals are full-sounding and extremely well-separated, and you can hear the finest details of the recording (a tiny breath between words or faint vocal tremble, or slow-decaying cymbal) with incredible clarity, without any of the noise, distortion, fuzz, and static-y artifacts that you might expect from a recording of the time. If you haven't given it a spin lately, I highly recommend you do something about that.

So, what about you? What are some of your picks and suggestions for best engineered/mastered albums?
 
Sep 18, 2024 at 6:16 PM Post #115 of 120
Gotta say, Toshiki Kadomatsu's "Legacy of you" is amazing, the drums and misc percussion alone is just beautiful. Always love albums that highlight percussion that isn't just the drums, (then again I am a percussionist/drummer so I guess I'm biased lol)
 
Sep 24, 2024 at 6:36 AM Post #117 of 120
Yang Lining - China Racines (China Roots)

Espace Dragon, Buda Records - E.D. 927402 (1998)

Yang Lining: quqin
Wu Suhua: erhu
François Picard: Xiao

Recording engineer: Daniel Deshays
Production: Jean-François Chuet
Mastering: Frédéric Marin (Alcyon musique)

A recording of the chinese guqin (zither), both solo silk-stringed and metal-stringed, as well as accompanied by Erhu (fiddle) and Xiao (flute).

I really like the engineering on this album. It has a great balance between the different instruments and just the right amount of reverberance captured (for me), and they have captured the different characters of the instruments with different stringing.
They have also got the balance just right between the far-field character of the qugin vs. the near-field sound of the plucking and sliding of the fingers over the strings (not sure if those are the right terminologies); you can really hear how the instrument is being played without it being too in-your-face-forward.

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Oct 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM Post #118 of 120
Maybe not that one favorite, but definitely one of my favorites: Duke Ellington — Blues in Orbit, pressing by Analogue Productions.

Recorded in in 1959 (!) in the famous Columbia 30th Street Studio. It sounds just absolutely phenomenal. You can hear how all the musicians were in one big room and you get that live feeling while not sounding like a typical live record. Every instrument can be heard crystal clear. Occasionally you can hear some laughing or chatting (Duke?). This record is music to me like not many others — and with that I also mean the recording itself.

And I mentioned this particular pressing on purpose. It has been remastered and cut by Bernie Grundman who probably played his part in making the record sound the way it does.
 
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Oct 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM Post #119 of 120
For Blues/Rock anything from The Black Keys. Its gritty but I love hearing the layering, amp fuzz in the background and the kick drum bumping.
Well done production IMO.

*Featuring legendary Billy Gibbons on guitar:




 
Oct 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM Post #120 of 120
For Blues/Rock anything from The Black Keys. Its gritty but I love hearing the layering, amp fuzz in the background and the kick drum bumping.
Well done production IMO.

*Featuring legendary Billy Gibbons on guitar:





Love it all…..
 

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