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Flac or Wav 24/96 Studio Master download available at; http://www.soundliaison.com/
Paul Berner on Elvis, Faust, Colonel Tom Parker, the Devil, recording, Gillian Welch, his Band, Monty Alexander and life.
The Audiophile Album Road to Memphis can be downloaded as a 24bit-96khz Studio Master WAV file at Sound Liaison.com.
http://www.soundliaison.com/

At Sound Liaison we believe that when we get the musicians to play together in the same room, with out headphones,
it creates a number of musical and technical benefits. ......

the musicians interact much more as they would do in a concert situation,
as they are not ''separated'' by the headphones,
the musicians are forced to create a musical balance,
the need for compression to control levels is no longer necessary,
we can use a minimalist microphone setup and there by reduce phase problems,
since everybody is in the same room, the boxed sound which is so common in many modern recordings is absent,
and the sound of the room helps ''glue'' the sound of the recording.

This is all very well but there are also problematic aspects to this procedure:

the room, studio, has to have a good sound
the musicians have to be very good and well prepared as
it is very difficult to repair mistakes because of the ''cross talk'' between the instruments,
we have to be very precise when choosing and placing the microphones,
and the puzzle of placing the musicians at the right distance to the main stereo microphones and the right distance to each other, is also time consuming.

and when we have a live audience in the studio,as we do with our Studio Showcase Series,
we pray that they remembered to turn of their cell phones and the ones with the bad cold chose to stay home.

The room where the recordings has been done is the now legendary Studio Eleven situated in the basement of the building of the Dutch World Broad Casting Service.
The Studio was used extensively in the 60's by European and visiting American jazz musicians (Wes Montgomery, Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, Eric Dolphy.....)
The Dutch World Broad Casting Service asked Frans de Rond to bring the room back to life as a recording studio, and Frans after seeing and hearing the room jumped at the opportunity.
Sound Liaison has been allowed to use the room during off hours, for our audiophile project, and we are eternally great full to the Dutch World Service for the opportunity.