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Title: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: joeljoel1947 on March 31, 2010, 05:33:34 PM
Maybe my last post got missed in its own specific category? Or are you guys still trying to figure it out?
http://www.tapeproject.com/smf/index.php/topic,1444.0.html (http://www.tapeproject.com/smf/index.php/topic,1444.0.html)


Title: Re: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: jcmusic on April 01, 2010, 08:08:23 PM
Joel,
Maybe they are checking into it or trying to figure out what's up!!! Give them some more time and see where it goes, I am pretty sure there's an explanation!!!

Jay
Title: Re: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: astrotoy on April 03, 2010, 12:10:18 PM
I think I may have an explanation for the left right piano issue. First, it is clear that the piano was really on the left (Joel's other sources) or on the right (the TP tape) of the performance space with respect to the listener during the recording session. Second, according to the liner notes in TP-009, Mose Allison is singing and playing the piano. Third, Mose Allison's voice is approximately in the center of the sound field. (I am assuming that is true in Joel's other sources also). Fourth, unless there are photos from the recording session or we have some documentation that the master tape has channels reversed, we may never absolutely know what happened. Paul can confirm whether the master tape channels correspond to the TP-009 channels. My guess is that Joel's sources probably are not in a position to make that same confirmation. However - now for some forensic channel sleuthing.

Here is what I think - inspired last night while watching Diana Krall in her concert in Rio on bluray.   If the piano is a grand, then the player always sits to the audience left of the piano, since the lid of the piano opens forward only if the pianist is to the left of the piano. Since Allison is singing and playing the piano at the same time, and Allison is in the middle of the stage (soundfield), it stands to reason that the piano has to be on the right of the performance space. If it were on the left, then Allison's voice would be coming from the far left.

That is exactly where Diana Krall sits, playing the piano and singing - the piano sounds to right of center and her voice is pretty much centered. Her guitarist is sitting on the left, and his sound comes from the left, with drummer at left center and bass player at right center. behind Krall.

It is possible that Allison is playing an upright at the left center of the performance space. If that is true, then the piano and Allison's voice should be in almost the same location - since the upright is very close the performer.

BTW, occasionally, the piano is facing directly back from the audience (as in Barenboim's Beethoven Concerti bluray, where he is conducting and playing with back to the audience). However, that wouldn't happen with a vocalist/pianist, since he/she would be singing with back to the ausience. 

Larry
Title: Re: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: joeljoel1947 on April 20, 2010, 07:39:28 PM
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Joel,
Maybe they are checking into it or trying to figure out what's up!!! Give them some more time and see where it goes, I am pretty sure there's an explanation!!!

Jay
 

 

Maybe they just don't care Jay!!  Typical...
Title: Re: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: blaupunk on April 20, 2010, 08:38:59 PM
JoelJoel,
I believe that I have weighed in previously with a sympathetic voice to some of your concerns.
However it has been my experience when dealing in interpersonal matters that you rarely get the desired result when you 'throw down the gauntlet' even when done so gently as you did.
Perhaps the point in question is were the previous TP responses the definitive answer or not?
I suspect that these questions can be quite complicated, and must rely upon the time and availability of others to unravel.  I would counsel some compassion for the efforts of the TP to do their best imitation of Sherlock Holmes.

It seems that thus far the Series Two titles may have had a few too many snafus to the liking of a few subscribers.
However, if the source for the TP release is the original stereo master, then it may be logical to question the other formats as to their source/remastering decisions/mistakes.
The TP has high credibility in disclosing unanticipated complications in the remastering/licensing 'game'.
I for one am willing to offer the benefit of the doubt when we are told that the source is the original stereo master regardless of where the piano is in other releases.
Please consider that the TP is relying upon the representations/information of others as to what they are getting; from people who should know.
The TP should be able to rely upon the completeness and accuracy of that information until proven otherwise.

Taken to the extreme, this issue begs the question of the credibility and integrity of the principals of the TP.  I for one am no where near that point, and I hope that goes for you as well.
 

 

Title: Re: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: docb on April 20, 2010, 10:52:41 PM
We are pursuing more information about the recording and will report here when we have something to share. This may take some time, as Paul may need to track down a few folks and ask about decisions that may have been made at some point in the production process after the master was recorded.
Title: Re: Any update with the issue to TP-009 yet?
Post by: jcmusic on April 21, 2010, 08:29:19 AM
We are pursuing more information about the recording and will report here when we have something to share. This may take some time, as Paul may need to track down a few folks and ask about decisions that may have been made at some point in the production process after the master was recorded.
Well Joel,
There you go!!!

Jay