Amazing analog!

[bassix]

Just having purchased a couple of new monitors I was browsing through my cd collection checking for outstanding mixed/mastered stuff.

 

I ran into one of my Chris Whitley albums, it's named "Perfect Day" and contains acoustic (dobro/national, upright bass etc.) versions of some classic songs like hendrix's "drifting", reed's "perfect day" and some tunes I don't know the author to (like "spanish harlem incident").

 

The quality of this recording truly AMAZED me, it sounds SO f***ing sweet, it really soothes the ears!

 

So I went reading the little inlay that came with the cd (yes it's an ordinary cd) and noticed it was recorded "live" on 1/2" analog tape by a man named Danny Koppelson, produced by Craig Street. Mastered (I betcha it didn't come to him on DAT) by Greg Calbi at Sterling.

 

A job well done by these gentlemen. Wow.

 

U2's "Achtung Baby" also sounds VERY good by the way, I don't know how that was recorded though. I'm finally getting to appreciate the CD audio format Just amazes me this analog recorded stuff sounds so breathtakingly good compared to some of my other cd's...

 

Edit: What mic is this?

 

http://tanx0r.org/whitley.jpg

[Mats Olsson.]

The mic in the picture is probably a RCA ribbon microphone.

 

/Mats

[bassix]

Thanks Mats, it appears to be an RCA 77-something. I was asking because the vocals on the recording I was talking about sounds really good.

 

There's an RCA 77-DX being offered at e-bay... http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3803446592&category=53108

 

Seems to be a similar mic. Price is ofcourse way out of my league I'm such a poor man hehehe.

 

Am fascinated by old stuff. Built like a tank ofcourse.