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Jerome Sabbagh – Heart – Comparison between Pure analog vinyl record AAA, Digital download 24/192, True Master Tape copy

Jean.Francois

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Hello,

This is Jerome Sabbagh‘s new album “Heart”, following on from “Vintage” (reviewed here), released in 2023.

For this new album, Jerome remains faithful to pure analog recording and reproduction, as we had already seen with “Vintage”.

But, for this new album, Jerome wants to capture the quinquecence of the live sound, so no recording on an analog multitrack like the STUDER A80O. Instead, he recorded live in the studio on a stereo tape containing the mix of his various microphones and recorded on 1/2 inch tape on a custom Ampex 351 tube at 30 ips (76 cm/s).
Heart01 -- small.jpg



Jerome Sabbagh , Joe Martin and Al Foster are all in the same room, an important point to have the live rendering (no individual recording) of course, and it was James Farber, the engineer, who chose the layout, taking into account the room’s acoustics, which he knows very well (Studio C, at Power Station in New York, which does indeed have exceptional acoustics).

This album is available on vinyl and magnetic tape ( available on www.analogtonefactory.com), offering pure analog recording media. It is also available on CD and as a high-resolution download (available on Bandcamp), as well as for streaming.



I’d like to thank François Saint-Gérant of Ana Mighty Sound for the opportunity to test his master copy tape on his Analog Audio Design TP-1000 magnetophone.
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The waveform of the taped shows a high dynamic range confirmed with DR14 (see below).
waveform - Jerome Sabbagh - Heart - Tape -- small .jpg



Live is Live, as we might say of this album. Everything is done to offer the closest possible listening experience to live recording, with a choice of direct takes, no remixing and all in pure analog using exceptional equipment. With his new album “Heart”, Jerome Sabbagh has left nothing to chance and offers us an exceptional AAA analog vinyl and tape edition.



High-resolution samples (24-bit 192 kHz) and all the measurements are available here for you to listen to the different versions.

Enjoy listening,
Jean-François
 
It's fascinating to see the tape, file and LP compared.
 
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