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At Home with Cybill
2004
CD-$9.99
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A note from Tom Adams, producer, musical director, accompanist,
and songwriting partner:
Inspired by a series of archived
rehearsal recordings, At Home With Cybill quickly took on
a life of its own. This collection of carefully selected material
and deeply personal performances has indeed been produced at Cybill's
very own home, with her voice and all it's warmth coming to you
via a microphone placed in her wardrobe closet. While retaining
the comfortable tone and candor of the earlier recordings, the bar
was lifted and every track underwent an unhurried scrutiny. Careful
attention was lavished on the recording of the voice and piano and
a handcrafted approach taken to achieving just the right blend between
the two. The result is the sincere and intimate musical portrait
contained here and one that most certainly will make you feel At
Home With Cybill.
A note from Larry Goldman, producer and engineer:
On this project we used a stereo
pair of AKG 414's on the Yamaha C3 Grand Piano in a parallel configuration
at a slight upward angle (one on the bass part of the harp the other
at the treble end). For Cybill's vocal we used a Neumann M 149 with
its cardiod pattern selected and slight bass roll off at 80 Hhz.
We used a small pop filter before the mic. Both the vocal and piano
microphones were run through a Yamaha O1v mixer for monitoring and
patched directly to a Tascam DA-38 via tdif connections from the
mixer. Little or no equalization was added in the chain and the
reverb used for Cybill's voice was digitally added from a Lexicon
300 stereo reverb unit for just a touch of ambience. The Tascam
tapes were then uploaded digitally direct to a Mac G4 dual 533 for
editing and mixing in a 32-bit environment. The final mixed and
mastering were dithered down from 32 bits to 16 bits via Waves software
and burned to a final CD master for replication.
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