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Fodera Monarch Trio

#44
ian_s said:
Jason, could you post some blinded links to the recordings, so we can listen without knowing which is which?
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Just Thumpin' said:
I just sat down and spent some quality time with the CD on my very transparent home audio system. We had Matt record all three basses each doing the following:

1. Each open string;
2. Chord progression using all strings in the middle of the FB;
3. Scale
4. Fingerstyle lick
5. Slap lick

I will wait to join the discussion about my impressions until AFTER we have posted the sound clips and had them out there in the world for a week for all to hear...

To be fair, I wrote my impressions down about which bass was which and sealed them in an envelope for my co-workers to open tomorrow.

Stay tuned. They will be posted by the middle to end of this week. You are in for quite a fun ride!

Also, please, please, please make sure that you listen to them on a real sound system with good bass response and not just your computer speakers or iPod. That seems very obvious to me, but I thought that I'd mention it!!

Regards,

J
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Coming soon.
 
#52
1.) Thanks to everyone who complimented the photos. <rodney_dangerfield>Finally gettin' the respect I desoive!</rodney_dangerfield>

2.) Yeah, we were kidding about the "not sold seperately" bit.

3.) @Jason: Spent some quality time with the CD on your very transparent system? Weren't you worried about the digital sample rate degrading the tonal nuances? Reel2Reel, baby! (Kidding man, but I'm alone in the shop today, I gotta hipster-out on somebody.)
 
#57
I honestly wish that the world never did go digital as analog has ALWAYS sounded far more musical to me than even the finest digital (at least thus far). And MP3 IMHO is a flat out abomination. Of course we'd never be able to post tracks to the internet for all to hear without digital so I kind of knowingly speak with a forked tongue...

Anyway, we should be posting the sound clips later today hopefully in the "original" AIFF format. In an ideal world folks will download them, burn them to a CD and then play them on a decent audio system. Even though we had Matt record them in a higher sampling rate than 44.1 khz, we figured that this would be the highest resolution "portable" format that we could use without yielding overly large file sizes...

FYI, we will NOT be posting the tracks blind -- you will know which is which. If you are a masochist, you'll have to have a friend "randomize" the tracks for you. We DID listen to all of the tracks blind here in the shop. I'll comment more on our thoughts after the tracks have been out in the world for a bit...

Cheers,

J


saxmachine777 said:
3.) @Jason: Spent some quality time with the CD on your very transparent system? Weren't you worried about the digital sample rate degrading the tonal nuances? Reel2Reel, baby! (Kidding man, but I'm alone in the shop today, I gotta hipster-out on somebody.)
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