2015 John Digweed Live In?

[ddr]

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As for the Live In .. the music on the night was ridiculous, from third track in the room could tell it was going to be a seriously good night.

In recent times I can't think of a CD that has such a great batch of tracks : given the music wasn't pre-planned the flow and selection in the moment knocks you for 6.

From Vermillion to Fault Lines to the Cosmic Cowboys tracks to Love Over Entropy, KT and Visionquest remixes to Arp Choir and the Romboy Garnier re-rub / bangin' Jel Ford number the whole set is raw yet faultless. Best of the series and going to be nigh on impossible to top.

have to agree with your review... this is the best Live In from the series so far, in my opinion. Digweed's chill/deep side has always been my favorite and CD1 - 3 are just absolutely mind boggling at the build up of it.

listened to this 3 times already.

[sbando]

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The Beacon remix is such a lovely track! So far, best track of 2015.

[sbando]

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Still only on CD1 right now. The box got shipped to my new house and I didn't get it until yesterday.

So far, so good. Really like the music.

I'm not thrilled with the sound quality all that much, however. I'm sure it sounds great in headphones, but in my car it's a little muddy and the soundstage is really low and diffuse. While I enjoy the concept of the "Live In" series, I really do miss the quality of studio mixes. The portable recorder he uses just doesn't do the greatest job for proper stereo reproduction.

I think someone (probably Simon) explained that it's a combination of line in and recorder.

[unrecogniseduser]

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the sound quality of these mixes is always a bit muddy.

[Homegrove]

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Except for London for some reason. It doesn't sound like a studio-mix, but noticeably better than the rest.

[dusk]

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Now I fancy a decent DAC / Amp to connect to my PC for home headphone listening.

Not sure what headphones you have .. but I've had my eye on this baby for a while now.... Marantz HD- DAC1High Definition USB DAC / Headphone Amp

[diegoff]

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^ nice!

[GregWhelan]

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Possibly the only person who isn't loving this as much as everyone else to be honest.

I enjoyed moments of CD2, and CD3 has a couple of nice tracks on it, but I can't think of any amazing tracks that I wanted to go back and listen to really.

IMO London still way out on top as the best of the series.

My preferred ones are:

London
Argentina
Cordoba
Toronto
South Beach
Miami
Slovenia

[subterFUSE]

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the sound quality of these mixes is always a bit muddy.

It sounds pretty good in my headphones (Ultimate Ears Customs).

In my car the bass is a little muddy, but the part that really doesn't sound right is the staging. The soundstage on this mix is really low for some reason. Almost like it's not in stereo, but mono. I realize most electronic music doesn't have proper staging, but most of the good recordings sound excellent in my car. They usually image nice and high like they should. This one is different.

Just something I've noticed....

[audrey_w]

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Playing a cd on a pc through a USB interface is an absolute guarantee of shitty sound so don't be too surprised by muddy bass frequencies, you're over processing

Also could be the over compression of tracks that have already been compressed, always undesirable and I don't know why they do it

[klangfabrik]

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I'm really digging the Agoria mix of Vermillion - I've never really paid too much attention to his earlier stuff, but I think his Fabric mix and this got me much more interested in what he's done and doing.

AGORIA (Slices Feature) - YouTube

[subterFUSE]

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Playing a cd on a pc through a USB interface is an absolute guarantee of shitty sound so don't be too surprised by muddy bass frequencies, you're over processing

Also could be the over compression of tracks that have already been compressed, always undesirable and I don't know why they do it

Not playing on a PC. Playing on this:





CD extracted to FLAC via XLD on Mac, and verified bit-perfect rip.
FLAC player in car sends Optical Digital out.

[diegoff]

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^ yeah!

[chuckc]

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damn, just got through cd 1 and 2 and not feeling this as much as I anticipated, ....crazy cuz it sounded outstanding live in person.

hope cd3 picks up

[go0gle]

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^ its always going to be like that unfortunately .. its the whole experience that counts.. when you taka away all the other elements like crowd, energy, drugs/alcohol, sound system, set/setting, etc. and you just put your headphones at home instead.. its never going to sound/feel as good : (

I always approach live sets with that mindset..

Anyway.. this is sublime.. I really like the flow