Aussie DXD recording jazz(ish) sounds

If you are interested in this check out the Stereonet forum.  Sounds like it might be an opportunity to stretch the legs on you NAIM DAC at some seriously high def stuff, assuming you like the music.  as far as I can tell its just a little indie project by a forum member.  If its good who knows, Naim label might be interested.

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I was wanting to let you know of a project that I have just finished tracking that I think you might find interesting.

It is a jazz/ECM'esque/filmy album that we tracked last week at Studio 301 in Sydney in the main tracking room. http://www.studios30...ney/studio-one/

I have taken to describing the music as Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett meets film music in Scandinavia!

The music was all composed by myself and is a jazz quintet configuration; trombone (me), tenor sax (Julian Gough), piano (Brendan St Ledger), upright bass (Brendan Clarke) and drums (Hamish Stuart).

The music was all composed to exist in a large space and as such we recorded all in the center of the second biggest tracking room in Sydney (Australia?). Trackdown is a little bigger but I actually find more dampened. We recorded everything at once, no overdubs.

We recorded using predominantly DPA microphones and recorded direct to a Pyramix workstation in DXD. The engineers were Greg Simmons and Ross A'Hern. The quality of the recording was paramount and there have not been any corners cut.

We will be mixing within the Pyramix system which means we do not have to take it out of DXD at any point.

After this it is being shipped over to Morten Lindberg of 2L records in Oslo, Norway for Mastering again within the DXD world. Morten was the engineer, producer and mastering engineer for The Hoff Ensemble "Quiet Winter Night", for which he won a Grammy! And was the recording inspiration and reference for my project.

So to have him Master my album is very exciting.

In Morten's words; "From DXD you will have 44.1/16, 96kHz/24, 192kHz/24, 352.8kHz/24, DSD64 and DSD128. The mastering will be done on our Pyramix workstation within the DXD resolution. All sample rates will be prepared with our Weiss SARACON software from the final DXD master files."

To my knowledge I think this will be the first native DXD (at all levels of processing) jazz(ish) recording in Australia.

I would love to hear any thoughts on formats, methods of distribution etc that you guys are looking for and work well for you? As you can see from the DXD master we can extrapolate any format. 

Also am happy to answer any questions about the equipment/process etc. Although if you go too far into DXD conversions etc I will have to ask my engineer!

Hopefully this will not only be an album of enjoyable music but of the highest audio quality available at this point in time. At this stage it is sounding very exciting.