BIG BAND ALBUM RECORDED AT PAF

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Genesis Advanced Technologies and Merrill Audio Advanced Technologies co-sponsored the Friday Night entertainment for show goers at the inaugural Pacific Audiofest in 2022. We hired a local band-leader, Mr. Paul Sawtelle, to put a 17-piece big band together for a concert.

“This album was total serendipity,” said Genesis Chief Designer and CEO Gary Koh. “We got a couple of friends together to record the concert for ourselves and to give to the band members. Then the bank knocked it out of the park. Everyone enjoyed it so much that we decided to hire the band again the next year.”

The recording chain was as simple as possible. Assembled by Dr Phillip Chance and Mr Ki Choi, it comprised a pair of vintage Neumann TLM50 microphones direct to 2-track tape on a Nagra IVs with QGB. The vocals were mixed in on some of the tracks with a Nagra VI. “When I first heard the recording on tape, I knew that we had to share it with other big band music lovers,” said Koh. “I managed to convince my partners at Hyper Analogue Production and Brilliance Music & Studios to finance the production. The sound and music is so good that we are releasing it as Volume 2 of the Hyper Music Reference Standard.”