Day Three, Take 1 is a new double album from Singer, Songwriter and Acoustic Guitarist David Elias and his band known as The Casual Tees. It is his 6th DSD release at NativeDSD Music from the Sketti Sandwich label.
The album is a Pure DSD release – recorded with the Sony Sonoma DSD Workstation using DSD Analog to Digital Converters from Ed Meitner’s EMM Labs. It is a Live, Unedited Performance from April 20, 2007 at the San Gregorio General Store in San Gregorio, California. Featuring 19 songs and over 2 hours of DSD music!
David Elias took a minute from his home in Hawaii to share a bit more about this new DSD album: “I refer to this collection as Audio Verite’ having absorbed a little Cinema Verite in another life. What I mean here is that what you get with this recording is nothing less than the most honest way a recording can be made. A ton of work was done setting up the band, all the mics feeding preamps, then Ed Meitner’s EMM Labs DSD ADCs and a 24-channel mixer in the back storage room (“the cooler”) on the other side of the San Gregorio General Store off Hwy 1 in Northern California just south of San Francisco.
When all was said and done and the band stopped talking to themselves, they launched into each of these 19 songs, many of which had not appeared on any prior album. The crowd was local and the act was repeated 3 consecutive nights. This is the recording from the entire final 3rd night performance. John Nowland mixed 22-tracks to stereo analog during each take. His 2-channel stereo was then printed directly to the last 2 DSD tracks available on the Sonoma that Gus Skinas also recorded the entire band with.
So this album comes directly out of the Sonoma tracks 23 (left) and 24 (right) (i.e., Nowland’s stereo mix) with no edits or changes whatsoever. The DSD tracks are 100% native DSD without compression or effects added when I mastered them as stereo DSF from the source DFF.
Yours to listen to and enjoy. My great pleasure to have been part of this congregation of Casual Tees. Much Aloha.”
David Elias & The Casual Tees
David Elias – Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Composer
Charlie Natzke – Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Backup Vocals
Scott Beynon – Fender Bass, Backup Vocals
Ken Owen – Drums
John Havard – Stratocaster
Gary McArthur – Tenor Sax, Flute
Roger Powell – Hammond Synth
Reid Dennis – Percussion
Tracklist
Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.Total time: 02:20:33
Additional information
| Label | |
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| SKU | SSP20070420 |
| Qualities | DSD 512 fs, DSD 256 fs, DSD 128 fs, DSD 64 fs, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz |
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| Analog to Digital Converters | ADC-8 from Ed Meitner's EMM Labs |
| Audio Crew | Gus Skinas, Dr. Andrew Demery, John Nowland, Charlie Natzke |
| DSD Engineer | Gus Skinas, Super Audio Center |
| Mastering Engineers | David Elias (Pure DSD 64 Stereo), Tom Caulfield (Pure DSD 64 Stereo to DSD 128, DSD 256, DSD 512 transfers in the DSD Domain using Signalyst HQ Player 4 Pro Mastering Software) |
| Mixing Board | 24 Channel Midas |
| Instruments | Acoustic Guitar, Electric guitar, Fender Bass, Flute, Harmonica, Stratocaster, Tenor Saxophone, Drums, Percussion, Vocal |
| Original Recording Format | |
| Producer | David Elias |
| Recording Engineer | John Nowland |
| Recording Location | Recorded Live to 24 Track Pure DSD on the Sony Sonoma Workstation at the San Gregorio General Store in San Gregorio, California on April 20, 2007. |
| Release Date | March 11, 2022 |
2 reviews for Day Three Take 1 [Double Album] [Pure DSD]
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Being a long time David Elias fan I was disappointed with this album. It says it’s a double album, but half of the double album is just the band talking to each other. You really can’t even hear the talking so it’s more like silence.
Too bad they didn’t place track markers at the point where the music starts so you could skip all the talking and just hear the music. That’s all I wanted.
Harold Prentice (verified owner) –
Great live recording. Really intimate, showing all the atmosphere of a live show.
Great banter between the band and the crowd. Especially when the sound engineer hidden away realizes he needs to increase the recording levels. There’s even a power outage when someone in the crowd switches of the wrong switch.
Real life and very musical. I think this is some of their best work. Gotta love live music….. Great value for money too
Chris Speakman (verified owner) –