John Chester - as always - did a meticulous job with the digitizations. There's a lot of novel but sane technical stuff going on with these... 384/32 w phase compensated NagraMaster repro EQ done in the digital domain, and after having worked quite a bit with Betty Cantor's Nagra tapes and once before with Bear's I got a good handle on the w & f profile. Loving 122kHz!!!
The recordings are really cool. Very lifelike, though as stated in the article Bear was a bit of a fiddler and the sound does vary within a night as he moved things around - sometimes in the middle of a song. Nothing Jeffrey Norman couldn't iron out.
And Doc and Merle are masterful.
Jamie Howarth
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> This is great news! Owsley was a meticulous recordist, so I'm sure these tapes will blow people away.I read about this project in Robert Greenfield's recent book 'Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley'The Trippy Life of the LSD Manufacturer Who ‘Helped Create the 60s’
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> Projects like this are what I got into audio preservation for. I wish I could have been involved with it, but I'm sure Jamie will do a kick-ass job. I look forward to hearing some of this stuff one day..
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> On Sunday, June 11, 2017 8:56 PM, Jamie Howarth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Jun 11, 2017, at 19:26, Clark Johnsen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Certainly do hope they're careful about the digital transfer of this
>> valuable live performance material from 50 y.o. tapes.
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>> http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/
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