Dean, Billy: Fire in the Dark (with Lonnie Wilson, Glenn Worf, Biff Watson, and others). Recorded ca. 1993, at Emerald Sound Studios. Engineer: Bob Bullock. 36+ minutes. Liberty 98947.Dean, Billy: Fire in the Dark (with Lonnie Wilson, Glenn Worf Glenn Worf is a musician, specialising in the bass guitar. He was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Musical Biography Glenn is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. , Biff (Binary Interchange File Format) A spreadsheet file format that holds data and charts, introduced with Excel Version 2.2 in 1989. 1. BIFF - /bif/ (Or "B1FF", from Usenet) The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie. Watson, and others). Recorded ca. 1993, at Emerald Sound Studios. Engineer: Bob Bullock Robert D. "Bob" Bullock (July 10, 1929 – June 18, 1999) was a Democratic politician from Texas, whose career spanned four decades. He climaxed his service as Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1991–1999 during the terms of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. . 36+ minutes. Liberty 98947. While most C&W discs display less than ideal engineering (with the probable reason being that the producers want to make the material sound good on automotive-cassette systems or cheap home stereos), Billy Dean has turned out a number of fine engineering efforts. In my earlier book of reviews, I gave his recordings higher-than average marks and I am including this one here because even though it is not truly state-of-the-art, it is still decent enough to prove that there is no law against producing well-recorded country music. The overall sound is articulate and well-defined, with a surprisingly good sound stage. The dynamics are attention getting and the synthesized reverb re·verb Informal n. 1. A reverberative effect produced in recorded music by electronic means. 2. A device used for producing this effect. intr. & tr.v. on the disc is well integrated into the mix. Many country-sound discs feature soloists who are buzzy or nasal sounding (I know that some sound that way by themselves but the engineers often add in their own bit of electronic nasality, via the mixing console In professional audio, a mixing console, digital mixing console, mixing desk (Brit.), or audio mixer, also called a sound board or soundboard, is an electronic device for combining (also called "mixing"), routing, and changing the level, tonality and/or or peaky peaky Adjective [peakier, peakiest] pale and sickly [origin unknown] Adj. 1. peaky - having or as if having especially high-pitched spots; "absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass" microphones) and too far forward, but Dean is not overly emphasized here and his voice has obviously been recorded with a decent microphone. Dolby Pro Logic See Dolby Surround. decoding narrows the on-axis soundstage and I would opt for the phantom-center mode. However, I must admit that the steering is helpful if one is listening from some distance off center, but only if the center speaker is a proper one with a good F-R balance with the mains, and with good phase integration with the, too. It moves Dean back to the primary position and also restores the feeling of stage depth. Synthesized ambience was only workable with the smaller of the two jazz-club settings of the DSP-A3090 in my larger system and the DSP-A1000 in my smaller one. Anything else tended to bloat the somewhat forward vocal sound. -- HF |
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