DOC POWELL - THE DOCTOR 2xLP, VTL 006, AUDIOPHILE, MANLEY - NEW, SEALED
  $   90

 


$ 90 Sold For
May 20, 2017 Sold Date
Apr 21, 2017 Start Date
1 Number Of Bids
  USA Country Of Seller
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Doc Powell, The Doctor
Doc Powell (guitar), Rodney Franklin (piano), Reggie Hamilton (bass), Michael Baker (drums)

"All Right Now, For The Love Of You, Celia, Sugar, Isn't She Lovely, Maiden Voyage, B.B., Just Love"
ViTaL Records

Condition: NEW/ ORIGINAL SEAL - FLAWLESS

I'm not a dealer, but a private collector downsizing my modest collection and selling off a few duplicates or others that no longer interest me.  Most of my records were hand-picked 25 - 30 years ago.  

"Using his professional line of vacuum tube recording gear, David Manley recorded direct-to-two-track analog, using the Manley Stereo Gold Reference microphone in his 30 foot by 40 foot studio, with a cathedral-peak ceiling height of 16 feet. The entire acoustic treatment was finished in Oregon Oak and Douglas Fir timbers, with continuous Helmholtz-tuned resonance absorbing slots. The floor was rubber over high density particleboard over concrete, with a resultant reverberation time of approximately 1½ seconds, providing a totally neutral and resonance-free acoustic. The Manley studio was unique because the complete recording and playback chain from microphone to playback monitors were made up of Manley tube electronics. Further, the studio was designed for purist recording techniques only, with all the music played live and captured straight onto two tracks.

Every single piece of equipment in the recording chain was entirely tube and entirely analog, of David Manley's design and built in their factory in Chino, California. This included the microphones themselves, the Manley Stereo Gold Reference condenser microphone. The Manley microphone was of the so-called larger capsule variety, has a diameter of 1¼ inches, with 3-micron gold-deposition Mylar diaphragms. The stereo version has one fixed capsule and one rotatable capsule, which offers a continuously variable pick-up-pattern. He most often used the figure 8 in the classic Blumlein coincident crossed-pair mode. The entire vacuum tube amplification is built into the microphone body, and no transformer coupling or external amplification is used at all.

The microphone is connected via VTL Quad double-screened cable right into a unity-gain mixer for level setting and metering. The mixer was based around the Manley Reference preamplifier, and can mix up to 10 microphones into 2 busses. Mixing of microphones is achieved by each input having its own dedicated grid, and not by the usual pot and build out resistor method as found in every console in use in the recording industry.

No equalization of any kind was employed. All fixed wiring in the patch-bay and control room was VTL White wire 3x pure copper and silver cores in Teflon. David Manley fully updated the mechanics in the ½ inch two-track Studer C37 analog tape deck, which contains only their Manley pure tube circuitry.

The recordings were then mastered in his full-featured mastering room. The LPs were mastered from the original analog tapes."

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