24/96 One Guitar
On 2009-03-07, at 07:15 , SM wrote:
On the other hand, listen to an mp3 file from my One Guitar album, the source of which was NOT compressed at all and you will notice that the mp3 does a very good job of delivering the dynamics of the recording.
I would go so far as to say that the audio quality of One Guitar is in what I would call “ECM grade audio territory.” Worthy of a technical Grammy or some other technical award.
If you ever decide to do a 24bit/96kHz version of One Guitar, I’d pay a premium for that. Between the performance and the sonics it would be more than well worth it.
I suspect that would sound amazing on my system.
Thanks, you just gave me an idea.
We are launching a subscription model within the next week or so. For $20/year (or $4/month) a subscriber gets to download a free tune (usually unreleased, either from the archives or stuff I am working on), gets access to about 10,000 of my Flickr photos (and may download any of those in full quality), plus video downloads, a private Journal with community (commenting, discussion) etc yadda yadda yadda.
Anyway, I think I will make one of the One Guitar masters (24/96) available as a download as part of the subscription. There will probably only be a handful of people who have the gear and desire to listen to those files, and so the bandwidth won’t be a problem.
How does that sound?
Peace
– ottmar
PS: which track from “One Guitar” would you like to hear?
He wrote back:
That sounds fantastic! I will sign up for that!
Wow… Tough question… For me, kinda like asking “which of the Bach ‘cello suites do you prefer …” probably “This Spring, Release 10000 Butterflies”
So I went to the studio and grabbed the original 24/96 mix of “This Spring Release 10,000 Butterflies” and transferred it to my laptop. iTunes imported the track, no problem. iTunes even played back the track without a hitch.
As you can tell from the screenshot, the file is rather large: 199.7 MB – that would take up a third of a regular CD… If you have iTunes and a newish computer, one that has a D/A (digital-to-analog) converter that can handle 24/96 you should be able to enjoy the depth and sound quality of this file. If you are using an Apple Airport Express to deliver music to your amplifier/speakers, their built-in D/A converter works fine, too.
Watch this space for a link to download the music sometime soon.
