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The Art of HiFi: Bass

"Hang on to your seat!"

The Art of HiFi Volume 01: Bass, features 10 wonderful tracks each with musically satisfying low-frequency notes that will stretch the limits of your high-end audio system. Bass is the fundamental bedrock of music and Volume 01 gets it right in perhaps ways you’ve never heard before. It’s an extraordinary experience. Bass has it all, from the lowest notes of a massive pipe organ to the system-challenging extremes of a musical synthesizer. All tracks were recorded and mixed in Octave’s new state-of-the-art studios in pure DSD256 by PS Audio’s Paul McGowan and mastered by Gus Skinas. No audiophile’s collection should be without The Art of HiFi Series, Volume 01: Bass.

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01 - Erase me
02 - How deep
03 - Power of life
04 - Rocky Mountain Rain
05 - Sheps dream
06 - Passacaglia
07 - Take what you need
08 - Maiden voyage
09 - World Wind
10 - Toccata in D Minor

The Art of HiFi: Bass

The Art of HiFi : Bass was put together over a few months of recording including a live performance at Temple Emmanuel in Denver. Artists featured on this album include award-winning organist Kenrick Mervine, father of jazz trumpeter, Gabriel Mervine. Kenrick holds degrees in Organ Performance with Distinction from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, with honors from the American Guild of Organists, West Chester State University, and the Music Teachers National Alliance. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, served on the faculty of Seton Hall University, performed with numerous symphony orchestras, and was privileged to serve as an organist for Pope John Paul II. The opening track, Erase Me, was the work of an up-and-coming young composer and performer, Kaitlyn Williams who began her musical studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she studied opera before switching her major to jazz studies. Jazz bassist Seth Lewis featured on tracks 2, and 8 ofBasstraveled the world performing and teaching and has collaborated with celebrated jazz artists as well as performing with Broadway and Las Vegas shows. During his time in New York, Seth regularly appeared at well-known jazz clubs including Smalls, Smoke, Dizzy’s Club Coca­-Cola, Cleopatra’s Needle and The Iridium. Drummer Michael Wooten's composition,Rocky Mountain Rain, is one to crank up the volume and enjoy. Wooten was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame twice, once with the band Zephyr and then with Leftover Salmon. Pianist Tom Amend gets us down into the lowest bass notes possible on Track 9,World Wind. Tom Amend has shared the stage with greats like Jeff Hamilton, Chris Potter, Christian McBride, Julia Dollison, Joey DeFrancesco, Groove For Thought, Deborah Brown, John Fedchock, Louis Hayes, Dave Liebman, Sheila Jordan.  

Features

  • One pressing Austrian gold-pressed dual-layer SACD
  • Pure DSD + PROMastered CD layers
  • Pure DSD256 recorded on the Pyramix DSD system
  • Mixed in DXD on the Pyramix DAW
  • DSD64, 128, 256, DSDDirect Mastered 176.4kHz 24 bit, 88.2kHz 24 bit, 44.1kHz 24 bit PCM available as downloads
  • No compression in the mastering or mixing process
  • CD layer of SACD playable on any CD player
  • Mastering monitored through the PS Audio DirectStream DAC and FR30 loudspeakers
  • All tracks are hand-curated on the aspen FR30 loudspeakers in Music Room Three
  • Limited edition one-pressing physical media

Artist and Production Credits

<span id="span-11351-238957" class="ct-span">With the exception of the live recording of the pipe organ made at Temple Emmanuel in Denver, all the recordings were captured in Octave Record's new state-of-the-art DSD studio in pure DSD256. Engineer Paul McGowan used minimal miking techniques focused on using the single-point Blumelein stereo microphone in a modified Decca Tree configuration.
No EQ or compression was used in any of these recordings. The AKG and Telefunken single-point Blumlein condenser microphones were augmented by a pair of DPA condensers that captured the room, along with a Bock Audio condenser that served as the center for a modified Decca Tree configuration.
Other microphones that were sparingly used for specific spot mics include:
<ul>
<li>Neumann U87</li>
<li>Neumann U67</li>
<li>AKG C314</li>
</ul>
Preamps:
<ul>
<li>Manley Force Vacuum Tube</li>
</ul>
Recording System:
<ul>
<li>Pyramix 14</li>
</ul></span>
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