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Mary also had two wonderful Solo albums on Warner Bros Record in the 70's Mary, and Morning Glory I still have Both.
Yes it does.
That means that he's using 480x2=960 i in analog VS 720iorp in digital. . Yeah .that sound look great
Chris is your client using a processor(Faraoudja, etc) with his CRT or is it"barefoot"?
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- At 9:53am on June 27, 2009,
Cookie Marenco said…
- thanks!
- At 10:52pm on June 21, 2009,
Cookie Marenco said…
- Hi Paul, sorry it's taken awhile to get back to you.... We're moving our offices. By the way, we have alot of new music at 96K at bluecoastrecords.com .. and a twitter feed.. twitter.com/bluecoastworld incase one can't get ENOUGH of my updates! :D
I bought my 2" machine in 1987.. an Otari MTR-90 series II, partly because the national headquarters was 1/4 of a mile away and I knew all the techs and partly because Dave Angress gave me 24 channels at the cost of 17. Dave owned/founded Sound Genesis in San Francisco. He's now in the top 5 Senior VP management of Guitar Center. He's always been a terrific supporter for recording engineers. I still use that machine today... and my 1/2".
Gus Skinnas (Super Audio Center) installed a Sonoma DSD system at my studio as well. I was an early beta tester of digital recording gear in the mid 80's (Dyaxis systems, then sold to Studer). Because my day job is a recording engineer/producer/studio owner, I have to have a version of ProTools around, but truthfully, it is on the bottom of the pile for sound. When I have to use it (for editing) i have Studer converters that sound terrific. I use an older version of ProTools.. from the 888 days. Protools HD is HORRIFIC when it comes to sound. There is built in compression somewhere that is unacceptable to me when I'm recording acoustically. For the most part, I don't like protools and there are better systems available for sound... still, I prefer to LISTEN than VIEW waveforms and musically and sonically, nothing beats tape.
Typically, we'll record to 2" tape (even reused) and archive to 24 track of the MX2424. We can use our Meitner converters to get our 96K samples from DSD or tape mixdown. We use Samplitude to create our 96K audio files.
Recording mediums aside, the other contributing factors to our sound is our proprietary cable used in recording. That with great vintage mic and Millennia/Manley/Neve preamps contribute to our sound.
We are planning on releasing in vinyl... need to save up our pennies. Our Chinese distributor has pre ordered, so we're not far away.
When I was at Windham Hill we used a variety of multitrack formats. Windham Hill owned a Sony 24 track digital recorder that was used quite a bit. Most of the studios we used had the Studer multitracks. Part of my job was to keep a check on the new formats for sonic acceptability. Eventually, budgets won out to sound. I"m hoping to bring what I learned from WH to Blue Coast.
Stay in touch!
Cookie
- At 8:33am on May 29, 2009,
Cookie Marenco said…
- FYI, NHT was the first place I made a sale for Blue Coast Records. I was looking for investors (not my strongest suit to wear) and giving away 5 song demo discs of the BCCollection. I must have given one to John at an AES show and he used it for their demo during CES. They won 'Ultimate Audio Award' that year. John called me the next day and ordered thousands of the 5 song as a co-branded item. From that moment, I started focusing on sales and never looked back.
We are once again seeking investors to move to the next stage of development... It would be wonderful to have NHT 'rescue' me from writing another business plan! :D
- At 2:06am on May 29, 2009,
Cookie Marenco said…
- Hi Paul, yes, I love Chris and John. Have you heard from them lately? How is John doing? Are they bringing NHT back from hiding?
I noticed Kevin Gilbert's name below. He was a piano student of mine. Not for long.. he didn't like to practice, but he loved to entertain.. he was great.
- At 6:27pm on April 21, 2009,
Shawn Schroeder said… - Not that I can say with any sort of right or wring.....but..... Where is this info from? George certainly hadn't made many good decisions on where to put his money, but someone who was so into Eastern religion and karma, probably wouldn't have done something that "snide" without thinking it would come back on him. Was the retrobution for this "crime" getting sued for "unintentional plagurism" by the Sherells (sp) or losing money hand over fist with bad investments (Shanghai Surprise among others)? I don't know. Who can you believe?
- At 11:26am on April 21, 2009,
Shawn Schroeder said…
- Ummm.Maybe.... What are you referring to? The fact that it is officially the 1st solo album by a Beatle and that George didn't know really what he was doing because he'd never scored a soundtrack before?
- At 10:16am on April 21, 2009,
Shawn Schroeder said…
- I know of Kevin Gilbert's stuff very well. His solo stuff is just amazing. It's too bad he didn't the recognition he SO deserved, which, of cours, led directly to hi suicide. Hell, HE wrote most of that bitch, Sheryl Crow's TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB without any sort of real appreciation from her. David Baerwald is also a favorite of mine. Are you familiar with EINSTIEN'S SISTER? The have a power pop sound with intelligent lyrics like Toy Matinee, Squeeze, Rembrandts.... Their friends of mine out of the Quad Cities here in Iowa. Have played at the Troubador and Pop fests in L.A. quite a bit.
- At 10:03am on April 21, 2009,
Shawn Schroeder said…
- That is awesome! I did know there were real and went searching for them, but to no avail. I hope to post the pics of my Beatles vinyl. I have almost all of the original EMI releases (UK) mono and stereo, and the Capitol releases (US) mono and stereo. I got really lucky to find a guy who was always a Beatles fan, but had no turntable. He didn't know what they were worth, nor did he care. He just knew I would provide a good home for them and cherish them as he did. Great condition! He even gave me ALL of each of their solo albums as well including an original Wonderwall music AND Electronic Sounds! Yeah, I'm boasting...
- At 2:24pm on April 20, 2009,
Shawn Schroeder said…
- Thanks! Can'y wait to get into this more!
- At 11:32am on April 4, 2009,
John said… - Yes San Juan Bautista has a English car show once a year. I too used to own a Sunbeam Alpine, a 1961 jet black beauty had small fins in the rear, that changed in 64. A great fun car, as long you spent Saturday taking care it. There were several alpines in the show, but I didn't get a good picture.
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Spinal Tap Is "Back From The Dead"
The New Tap CD is Called "Back From The Dead"and will be released on June 16th You can check out the title track on Billboard . com click on "News" This is the "LOUDEST TAP RECORD" ever, with studio versions of "Big Bottom, and "Hell Hole"
Posted on May 12, 2009 at 10:15am —
Here we go again
I just saw in the latest Rolling Stone that the Beatles Remastered CD's will " sound like modern recordings". Looks like they took the Analog masters and went 192/24 I don't know what EMI means by that. Want to bet. George Martin and Geoff are missing in action based on MF's information ". So I'm keeping my EMI Import , MOFI's ,and George Martin stereo remixed Lp's .George Martin told Mikey F years ago that the Lp's will sound better than any CD 's
Check out Mikey's take on all this at www.music… Continue
Check out Mikey's take on all this at www.music… Continue
Posted on May 1, 2009 at 2:00am — 2 Comments
End Of An Era.
I have a hard time with the fact that this year marks 10years since the passing of Hoyt Axton.Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Hoyt could do it all.
Posted on April 22, 2009 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments
Triva Time Part 2 the Answers
Ok Here are the answers how did you do?
1. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass they did it in April1966
2. Paul Revere & the Radiers. The Byrds
3.Terry Melcher
4. Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass
5.Herb Albert & theTijuana Brass-11 gold albums 5 that reached #1from 1965-1968
6.Jimi Hendrex
FYI the TJB's best Album Whipped Cream & other Delights has been reissued on a 180gram picture disc. The original LP was taped at Gold Star Studios(Home of the wall of sound) and was engineered… Continue
1. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass they did it in April1966
2. Paul Revere & the Radiers. The Byrds
3.Terry Melcher
4. Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass
5.Herb Albert & theTijuana Brass-11 gold albums 5 that reached #1from 1965-1968
6.Jimi Hendrex
FYI the TJB's best Album Whipped Cream & other Delights has been reissued on a 180gram picture disc. The original LP was taped at Gold Star Studios(Home of the wall of sound) and was engineered… Continue
Posted on March 4, 2009 at 3:30am — 2 Comments
Trivia Time
I've been in a "Mid 60's musical flashback" mode lately and I thought I'd ask a few trivia questions about that period (I was there and I remember, David Crosby, is wrong) I'll post the answers in a future post.
1. Name the only act to ever place 4 albums in the top 10 simultaneously(Hint it is not who you think).
2. Who where the first 2Rock acts signed by Columbia Records after Mitch Miller Left the label?
3. Who was the Productor that worked with them both?
4.Who held the # 1 spot on Billboar… Continue
1. Name the only act to ever place 4 albums in the top 10 simultaneously(Hint it is not who you think).
2. Who where the first 2Rock acts signed by Columbia Records after Mitch Miller Left the label?
3. Who was the Productor that worked with them both?
4.Who held the # 1 spot on Billboar… Continue
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Yes it was a catchy tune and song. Everybody read into it waht they wanted to. Still a great little kids song about growing up.
Mary also had two wonderful Solo albums on Warner Bros Record in the 70's Mary, and Morning Glory I still have Both.
Mary Travers, 1936-2009 September 16, 2009, 9:50PM
The Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary fame has died of cancer.
The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leuke...
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