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[Bruce B]

The Beethoven recording was made by Wilson's Peter McGrath (shown in the photo) in the 1970s on his Mark Levinson ML-5 analog recorder using a spaced pair of B&K omnidirectional measurement microphones. The transfer to 24-bit/88.2kHz WAV files had been carefully and lovingly done by Bruce Brown of Seattle-based Puget Sound and will eventually be released as HDTracks downloads. Shure's performance is extraordinary, with huge dynamic range; he makes the piano—a percussion instrument—sing; his awesome technique makes the passage near the end of the work, where the left hand is playing rapid arpeggios in the bass, the right hand in playing rocking chords in the midrange, and what could only be a third hand is picking out a melody in the treble, sound effortless. Art Dudley adds that for the most part, he was too overwhelmed by the music's beauty to write down much of anything, so he left it to me.

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[Steve Williams]

Congrats and nicely done Bruce

 

[naturephoto1]

Bruce,

Congrats and well done. It may be something to look into for a copy for myself.

Rich

 

[RBFC]

Way to go, Bruce!

Lee

 

[JackD201]

Congratulations Bruce!

 

[c1ferrari]

Too cool, B.

 

[Orb]

The Beethoven recording was made by Wilson's Peter McGrath (shown in the photo) in the 1970s on his Mark Levinson ML-5 analog recorder using a spaced pair of B&K omnidirectional measurement microphones. The transfer to 24-bit/88.2kHz WAV files had been carefully and lovingly done by Bruce Brown of Seattle-based Puget Sound.....

Who is this Bruce Brown character
Grtz Bruce, sure its a good feeling getting some recognition for the work and effort put in, sounds well deserved.

Cheers
Orb

 

[Bruce B]

Thanks, but all the work was done by Peter recording all of this great music. Here are some of the tapes.

 

[microstrip]

Thanks, but all the work was done by Peter recording all of this great music. Here are some of the tapes.

Which reel-to-reel machine did you use to make the transfer?

 

[Bruce B]

Which reel-to-reel machine did you use to make the transfer?

We used a modified Studer A80RC MkII with Flux Magnetics heads at 30ips

 

[c1ferrari]

Here are some of the tapes.

Alright