Robert Fripp

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Thursday 11 April 2013

Super Audio Mastering Monks Withecombe

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Super Audio Mastering, Monk’s Withecombe, Dartmoor.

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Rising to a sunny, blue morning; now coloured Dartmoor-grey.

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A stunning Mrs. Heywood’s Monk’s Withecombe Wonder-Breakfast Of Horror And Gigantism. Into the studio for a listen-through of Three Of A Perfect Pair in surround with Simon and Andy I…

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II...

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Fine-tuning underway.

12.30 A through-listen, seated in-between the two rear speakers. The tyranny of the 5.1 sweet-spot centre is unseated!

16.17 Over for lunch I…

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III...

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IV...

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V...

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…  and back to Beat.

Details of the stereo re-mix of Beat doesn’t satisfy my sense of stereolity. So, onto THRAK in surround. A wonderful blasting clattering werno of terror is currently erupting over my head.

17.22 The first pass is a crashing success.

17.41 Crashing forward.

17.47 Snarling, clattering wonder!

18.44 Coda: Marine 475 crunched down. It had much the same effect on Mr. SG Alder and his partner, MA Fenwick Esq.

And enough for today. An evening computing ahead.


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