8 Ensembles in 1 Bit: Behind the Scenes

[@stumariofficial3365]

What I love most of all in this method of recording is musicians are coming with their own ready balance. they already sound nice and that's why it works. Usually most of musicians rely on sound engineers. They expect from them to make better balance. But here you have to be already good! P.S. love Merging! :)

[@gstanley75]

I love the creative tension this technique creates and the higher quality is a plus. Superb.

[@underwoodstudio1821]

I'm Still learning and growing with my techniques in recording. Every now and again when I hit the wall or get tired I just watch this wonderful video and get so inspired. This is a good concept and a really lovely album of music. Well done. Big shoes indeed Mr Sacks...

[@ruiinacio9325]

An excellent collection of musicians & songs, beautifully recorded. Congratulations!

[@NativeDSDMusic]

Thanks for your comment Rui!

[@alsuper33]

Nice studio made by and for music lovers..

[@matteoromenghi]

Merging Technologies Horus AD/DA converter, Grimm LS1 monitors. Excellent stuff!

[@aeonikus1]

I wonder how challenging would be recording whole symphonic orchestra like that. Surely doable but still, nice challenge for engineers/producers. Great work btw. I really love your approach, much needed in flood of over processed music we have nowadays.

[@rist98]

Good symphonic recordings usually involve a single stereo set of mics. If you add close mics, you introduce a huge variety of issues with phasing which can be compensated but will never be totally overcome. So, the simpler the better is the thinking usually, when recording orchestras. But lets say you NEED to close mic the orchestra. You'd need quite some powerful equipment to allow for multitrack recordings of DSD. Merging is one of the very few companies that produce systems capable of providing such capabilities. And they have the only DAW I know that can work with DSD files. But, mixing DSD is, far as I have come to understand, impossible, without pulling it back into the analogue realm, or converting it into DXD. DXD is normal PCM, with quite high samplerates. 352.8kHz / 24bit to be exact. Im not sure how much working on it digitally with DXD will degrade the quality. I hope not too much. So safe to say DSD isn't an easy platform to work with. But so wasn't tape. I am planning to get my hands on the Merging Anubis soon, to start trying out DSD for myself. Cant wait.

[@mineralsound]

The disadvantage I see with recording to DSD is that you can't delay the spot microphones relative to the main microphones in post. This results in some audible phasing on the vocals in the last example. But overall I love the concept, and the recordings sound beautiful.

[@NativeDSDMusic]

Hi, you are right in that sense that we tried to have them at very low levels, just to add some attack, but these things are indeed the challenge... :)

[@pliedtka]

Kind of MA Recordings approach to recording technique, but you guys just have more to choose from as far as the equipment is concerned.

[@ColocasiaCorm]

K1000 and hd600. Interesting

[@matteoromenghi]

Pure DSD256 recording? 👍

[@lch7145]

I think you did a mistake with the video, we can see the highlight alert directly in the video that’ll really weird (white and black stripes)

[@NativeDSDMusic]

Well spotted!

[@marcakiyama]

I know this is an old video but do you now use Merging Technology and Pyramix to edit/mix?

[@matthewguthrie7675]

Which album is this?

[@NativeDSDMusic]

justlisten.nativedsd.com/albums/JL002-8-ensembles-in-1-bit

[@imad1996]

What is ADC recording format? If it is flac, then why convert to DSD after. If you buy the master flac you can convert it using a better software anytime. Dsd is nice but as far as recording studios do not use it, I am afraid it is dead.