Brand new analogue recording in 2025

[nopiano]

I couldn’t believe it at first. But sure enough, the famous yellow label for classical music, DG, has recorded an entire album on reel to reel tape, and released it on LP. Remarkable as they were among the first to release CDs, especially as they were advertised in the 1980s by their jet-setting star conductor of the day, Herbert von Karajan.

Anyway, in less than four minutes you can see tape splicing, a record being cut, and the LP being played with an SME arm. As well as two custom mics used for recording. AAA anybody?

View: https://youtu.be/PipH97I1lqg?si=vKDwEBPDQUoxbdl9

 

[Gray]

Proper tape editing!
But I expected to see the tape running a lot faster during the recording 🤔

 

[daytona600]

Audiophile labels are still producing 100% AAA Tapes & Records each month
& you can buy brand new tape decks from half a dozen suppliers

Recorded live on two tracks on a 1/2-inch tape with 30 inches per second (ips) on a custom-made Ampex 351 tube tape recorder by famed sound engineer James Farber.
Mastering was done in the analog area by the legendary Bernie Grundman.

 

[Rui]

Nice work, a good company, only i´m not a fundamentalist i know Digital is better than the sound we hear in compact disc, normally when only a songwritter or a string concerto ,they can sound as good as other format and analogue is always better as the convertions is a way to decrease recording quality and transform all work done in the original recordings.
At least since the 60´s the quality is available, and people think in the loss of signal in their own stereo as the path of the signal as bigger it gets as bigger are the losses, only in digital from the original recording a lot more is lost when converted to wave on a cd, if it were to a dat cassette the quality would be good , but ,it as been showed ,how expensive this home format(not only) was as expensive as it could get in late 80´s, at the time i compared it with reels of a bigger section.
After all this seems to be a good sounding copy, is it available ,commercially what is the cost of a new recording?

 

[nopiano]

Audiophile labels are still producing 100% AAA Tapes & Records each month
& you can buy brand new tape decks from half a dozen suppliers

Thanks, yes I realised specialists do still record that way, but labels owned by Universal and who championed Compact Disc definitely haven’t! Extraordinary that the skills and equipment is still around.

 

[nopiano]

After all this seems to be a good sounding copy, is it available ,commercially what is the cost of a new recording?

The DG recording of Pletnev is available on double LP or single CD.

But if you mean can you buy the master tape copy, I’m sure that’s a no!

 

[daytona600]

Thanks, yes I realised specialists do still record that way, but labels owned by Universal and who championed Compact Disc definitely haven’t! Extraordinary that the skills and equipment is still around.

Universal and who championed Compact Disc

Only because they could sell a £0.20p to produce CD for £20 & get you to buy your entire collection in a different Format