ALRAINBOW
Headphoneus Supremus
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Does check sky do dsd recordings ?
Al
Al
Wow...thanks for the props - it's always nice to hear. Last-minute technical issues nearly scuttled the whole recording...I was sweating bullets.
Yep, recorded right at The Ark on October 5, 2009. I checked the other day and was really shocked to see that it had eclipsed 10,000 downloads. Did you download the flac version?
I agree, I'd never listened to the Cowboy Junkies before but I listened to your recording several times.
Thanks. Is pretty weird though listening. Because the singer and instruments are not right in front of me...but a bit to either left or right.
Love the recordings. Makes me want to update all my music collection.
Again, thanks for the kind words. I have to say, being there in advance of the band's set up and sound check was pretty cool. I mean, after all of my gear was set up, I was kind of in coast-mode, and just sat back watching them run through a few tunes - I was one of maybe five people in there at the time. What was weird was that during the performance, I was sitting by the FOH board with my recording gear, and I was monitoring the signal from the KU 100 mannequin head in my headphones...so I had that sonic perspective, yet I was in an area of the house that sounds quite different than where the mannequin was placed. I had a similar experience when I recorded the Sumkali show there.
Yeah, that Junkies show...really a great night for me, and being able to hang out with the band (only a little mind you) just before and after the show was a bonus.
Are there any other albums like this available for free? I cam across the Cowboy Junkies one in the free flac music thread, so it would be awesome if you had other stuff to post there
http://www.head-fi.org/t/644595/official-free-flac-file-music-sharing-thread
Hey...Thanks so much for the post about this CD. It's great that you're helping to raise awareness of binaural recording; as someone who's been doing that for a few years now, it's always nice to see knowledgeable people give the subject some attention. I don't know that binaural is for everyone per se (some seem to love it, others, not so much), but certainly for the head-fi-ers, it's right up our proverbial alley.
If you want to check out some more binaural tracks from my sessions, links are shown below; some of the work is just binaural, some is hybrid (a mix of binaural and variations on conventional stereo), and some tracks are straight up conventional stereo. Howvere, please don't stream the tracks from the soundcloud site - their player transcodes content down to 128 kbps and this wreaks havoc with the imaging. However, you can download any or all of the tracks and avoid that. Some of the material has been posted in flac format, some in 320 kbps mp3 format, and some events have been posted in both formats:
https://soundcloud.com/immersifi
You can also check out (and download) a Cowboy Junkies show I recorded back in 2009 at The Ark in Ann Arbor:
https://archive.org/details/cj2009-10-05.ku100_at37
You can also audition / download a live recording of Sam Roberts Band (from back in 2009), which was recorded at The FIllmore Detroit:
https://archive.org/details/SRB2009-11-28
So...grab those 'phones and check out the various tracks. I hope you guys and gals dig my work.
Mark
I downloaded the Cowboy Junkies show this morning. I'd heard of them, but not heard them before. This is a GREAT recording, I'm really enjoying it.
Great job, and thanks so much for sharing.
(Three times so far I've heard a noise behind me, and turned to talk to my wife. Who isn't in the room at all.)
d.d.
I've finally looked into your recordings, and WOW, some of these will have to enter into my essential headphone testing/demo tracks. I love the Cowboy Junkies!
C
I'll have to use that rain track every time I have a friend over to shock them with my headphones!
My favorite ever binaural thing is the Ultrasone Test CD which has what I believe is sound taken from a battlefield/street or something similar, really remarkable and worrying!