Thread: OpenReelRecords : new titles on the market ...

Hello Forum, we are an Italian company and we enter in high-end music opening our new e-commerce site :

www.openreelrecords.com

We produce, record on-stage, edit and finally duplicate for the distribution very high quality analog tapes in ¼ format and vinyl LP, classical and jazz music.

We start the production in the late 2014, so we are proud to show our new proposals of new titles in the Master Series, products with internationally renowned artists.

In the next month coming interesting titles retrieved from Historical Archives and the RT3, a new real time hardware to ensure the fidelity of duplications of distribution master, currently under development.

The Team

New music on tapes...this is good news.

Doc B's Tape Project Tapes got my interest level up and started in listening to tapes again since teen years, and Mike L got me going down to the Studer deep end. I held out for #99 TP charter membership but it went to someone more important than me and got #98 for series 1 & 2. I still cherish the collections.

As soon as I can get back into tapes after making some room in the house, I will get some of them Italian tapes!

And a question to the OpenReel team:
Can you elaborate on your duplication setup and process you go through to make the copies?

Ki

Originally Posted by Ki Choi

New music on tapes...this is good news.

Doc B's Tape Project Tapes got my interest level up and started in listening to tapes again since teen years, and Mike L got me going down to the Studer deep end. I held out for #99 TP charter membership but it went to someone more important than me and got #98 for series 1 & 2. I still cherish the collections.

As soon as I can get back into tapes after making some room in the house, I will get some of them Italian tapes!

And a question to the OpenReel team:
Can you elaborate on your duplication setup and process you go through to make the copies?

Ki

You are only #98? I don't feel so bad. I am around 104.

Myles, I could had earlier number but when talking to Queen, I thought I had enough pull to get the #99 and delayed delivery. The #99 and #100 went to someone else special I was told...

So, I see the Nagra T Audio on OpenReel website. Is it their main production recorder?

That's what the info on the website indicates.

Originally Posted by Ki Choi

New music on tapes...this is good news.
Can you elaborate on your duplication setup and process you go through to make the copies?
Ki

Well Ki, we duplicate in a production studio in Milano, Italy. We use a Studer A-812 as source master, that distribute via a Studer 169 mixer to a bank of Studer A-807 as recorder.

We have tested a lot of configuration and the one selected is for us the best to ensure the optimal analogic chain result.

The Studer 169 mixer in the production room is the twin of the one we use on stage to record the sessions; on stage we use microphone Shoeps MTSC 6 MK4, Schoeps BLM 3, Shoeps CMC6 MK 21, Shoeps CMC6 MK 2s and others.

We use two unit micro preamplifier MILLENNIA Media HV­3D that via Studer 169 and a Telcom C4 unit go to a Nagra T.

We use RMG SM 900 tapes with reference flux of 320 nWb, with CCIR equalization.

while having a wide selection of microphones , about thirty , we use minimal recordings setup in amazing acoustic environments. The signal in this way will not be changed by artificial compressor or reverb unit.

We are engaged to release a tape more or less every two months, in this days is out the rediscovered Vivaldi's magnificient Nisi Dominus.

You will find every detail about the title at this link Nisi Dominus.

Sara Mingardo, one of the rare voices of true contralto of today's music scene, was directed by Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Jordi Savall, Jeffrey Tate and many others; find all details at this link

Sara won the Grammy Award for best classical album in 2002

Just received a copy of the Vivaldi for review and must say the packaging quality blows my mind! Leave it to those Italians. As good as the Tape Project, Hemiola and Lutz Precision are, Open Reel Records brings packaging to a new level. This is a tape that says pride of ownership.

Good to hear. Myles, any impressions on the tape?

Will hopefully get to,playing it this weekend.

Just ordered the vivaldi

While sales of the first titles are going very well, we are preparing the new release of May, the debut on tape of a splendid Italian voice that offer a tribute to American folk music .

Erica says “... this album is an homage to american music, the music I’ve been loving and singing for the past 15 year. The music that has made me the artist I’m, the person I’m. Recording it live has been an exciting, incredible experience ! It gives the album a special something I particularly love because it sounds fresh and authentic like the simple and genuine spirits from which this music origined ...”

Erica Opizzi - Wildwood Flowers

Next week we'll be back here with news on Monaco High-End show, this year we go as trade visitors !

We are back from Munich High-End ... very nice show, a lot of interesting things ... and our Demo Reel 2015 that play in some stands ;-)

And for the second year voices about a new open reel deck from a historical brand; modular and with a very interesting entry level cost ... we stay tuned for the next year !

The first batch of tapes sold and shipped just now ! In the next days more info about this amazing master tape, we open a separate thread regarding the artistic and historical value of this "live" and the tech info about a pioneering recording for its time ! Stay tuned ...

http://www.openreelrecords.com/opus/..._live_in_milan

My ears are drooling. lol.