Ray Charles Duets in Surround Sound SACD

[bmoura]

The new Genius Loves Company Surround Sound SACD by Ray Charles and a host of guest artists turns out to have a very good 5.1 Surround Sound mix on several of the cuts on the disc.

Check out in particular tracks 1 (Norah Jones), 5 (Natalie Cole), 7 (Willie Nelson) and 10 (Gladys Knight) in SACD Surround. Very well done.

 

[Eggplant]

Is this performance live?

It's hard to tell sometimes.
Labels are pressing anything and everything live, so much so that many releases aren't even labelled as such. I don't think this is an accident.

 

[daved64]

Is this performance live?

It's hard to tell sometimes.
Labels are pressing anything and everything live, so much so that many releases aren't even labelled as such. I don't think this is an accident.

No, all studio, AFAIK
It seems like a lovely idea, but Ray's voice is really weak. 10 years too late, I'm afraid!

 

[bmoura]

Is this performance live?

It's hard to tell sometimes.
Labels are pressing anything and everything live, so much so that many releases aren't even labelled as such. I don't think this is an accident.

The Van Morrison/Ray Charles duet is a live performance from an awards show. The other duets are live but it's not clear whether the instrumentation is live as well or recorded seperately.

 

[daved64]

The Van Morrison/Ray Charles duet is a live performance from an awards show. The other duets are live but it's not clear whether the instrumentation is live as well or recorded seperately.

I thought he meant live in concert.....did he mean live as in 2 people in a studio? Unlike Sinatra's duets?

 

[bmoura]

I thought he meant live in concert.....did he mean live as in 2 people in a studio? Unlike Sinatra's duets?

The Van Morrison track is live in that sense. But the others are in studio duets.