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September is now behind us, we hope. (Forum).
Did you notice the typo on your Number 92's front cover? I love it!
I particularly enjoyed the Skeptimania in 92--being somewhat of a fossil on the stereo scene (I still run a Harman-Kardon tube amp which I built 40 years ago, driving a pair of Electro-Voice 15" three way loudspeakers in Radio Shack enclosures for the front pair, and a pair of much newer speakers for the back). I am also, perhaps not so obviously, a strong believer in simple miking and the spaced array technique in particular. As you note, both Mercury, with their (to my ears unsurpassable) Living Presence recordings and Decca/London with their FFSS recordings, used variations on the theme. The Mercury Living Presence recordings that have been remastered onto CDs, while not having all the modern brilliance, are truly remarkable (not to mention having some outstanding artistry--not to be overlooked).
One aspect of the spaced array approach, however, you did not mention: it makes possible an extraordinarily simple, yet remarkably effective, way to obtain a good deal of ambience and even some back channel sound: the old ...
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- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 1997 700+ words
...Rafael Kubelik, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mercury Living Presence 434 378-2. What we have here is more than a CD; it...Pictures at an Exhibition was the first of Mercury's "Living Presence" recordings. Of course, it's monaural but, oh, what...
- Fabulous Marches for Orchestra. Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester "Pops"...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 1999 700+ words
...Marches for Orchestra. Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Mercury Living Presence 289 434 394-2. Ever wonder why record companies keep some things locked away so long? Saving up fabulous fare for a...
- Producer Recalls First Stereo Disc of `1812 Overture'
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday February 4, 1996 700+ words
...be released in the Mercury Record Living Presence series of the 1950s. Early hi-fi...was the pioneering producer when the Living Presence series first came out. She is now...the best person to define just what Living Presence means. WILMA COZART FINES, Producer...
- Ancestral Power: the dreaming, consciousness and Aboriginal Australians.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Australian Aboriginal Studies Dussart, Francoise September 22, 2003 700+ words
...Beings themselves. They are their living presence' (p.76). But to equate 'Beings' with 'their living presence' establishes a synonymity that...equivalence of 'Beings' and 'living presence' runs the risk of undermining...
- Noted record producer brought taste to the classics.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot September 29, 2009 700+ words
...feels one is listening to the living presence." Thereafter, Mercury's classical discs bore the legend "Living Presence," and the slogan helped define...oversee the reissue of the Mercury Living Presence recordings on CD. She worked...
- Psychiatry, the mystical, and the paranormal.(Report)
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology Thalbourne, Michael A. March 22, 2006 700+ words
...implied by its name, is the consciousness of the cosmos as a living presence. It involves the immediate perception of the immortality...he saw and knew that the Cosmos is not dead matter but a living Presence, that the soul of man is immortal, that the universe is...
- Whether you call them 'chestnuts' or not, the music endures.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Duncan, Scott January 16, 1996 700+ words
...are newly reissued on a handsome disc on the Mercury Living Presence series (434 360-2). Recorded in 1958 by the then Minneapolis...was one of the leaders in her field at the time and the Living Presence series is noted for its fine sonics. Dorati leads spirited...
- Alan Twigg. Aboriginality: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, vol....
- Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada Gough, Barry March 22, 2006 700+ words
...extraneous details in the appendix. I was struck by the living presence of aboriginal literature in British Columbia. Whereas non...be better but that sounds so academic. This again, is a living presence, strongly rooted in the past, with all sorts of new offshoots...
