THE ULTIMATE SOUND ON CD

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• Benjamin Britten - Simple Symphony op.4
  01 - Boisterous Bouree, 3:10
  02 - Playful Pizzicato, 3:11
  I Solisti dell’Olimpico, Giovanni Battista Rigon, conductor
  Live recording at Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, June 7th, 2003
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD090

• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  03 - Midnight’s Summer Dream, Op.21, Overture, finale, 3:15
  Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Zsolt Hamar, conductor
  Live recording at Auditorum Pollini, Padova, April 19th, 2007
  VELUT LUNA never published before

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Concert in A Major K622 for Clarinet and Orchestra
  04 - Allegro [fragment], 4:08
  Luca Lucchetta, clarinet, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto,
  Zsolt Hamar, conductor
  Live recording at Teatro Verdi, Padova, October 4th, 2004
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD292

• 05 - Era de’ Maggio (M.Costa - S.Di Giacomo) 5:30
  Rosella Caporale, voice
  Orchestra C.Pollini del Conservatorio di Padova,
  Giuliano Medeossi, conductor
  Studio recording at Auditorium Pollini, Padova, May, 2015
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD265

• Franz Schubert
  06 - Sonata in A major D959: Andantino, 8:05
  Live-in-studio recording at Spazio d’Arte, San Giacomo, November
  29th, 2014
  Chiara Bertoglio, grandpiano
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD090

• 07 - Albori (S.Tasca) 5:44
  Saverio Tasca & AlterArco
  Studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol, July, 2015
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD269

• 08 - At The Jazz Band Ball (L.Shields) 3:38
  Storyville Jazz Band
  Studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol, July, 26th, 2006
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD145

• 09 - Vertigo (M.Salvagnini) 4:34
  Massimo Salvagnini Quartet
  Studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol,
  November, 11st, 2006
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD153

• 10 - Birdland (J.Zawinul) 5:19
  Art Percussion Ensemble, Massimo Pastore conductor
  Studio recording at Auditorium Pollini, Padova, October 2010
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD196

• 11 - Toni Nokia (D.B.Soto Chero) 6:31
  David Beltran Soto Chero Ensemble
  Studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol, March, 19th, 2013
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD239

• 12 - Tears (M.Strano - P.Casula) 5:17
  Paola Casula
  Studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol, March, 16th, 2006
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD139

• 13 - So in love (C.Porter) 4:06
  Lucia Minetti, Pietro Ballestrero & Stefano Profeta
  Live-in-studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol,
  September, 23rd, 2017
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD294

• 14 - Contigo en la distancia (Cesar Portillo de la Luz) 3:57
  Alejandro Martinez y Nina y Villa el Salvador
  Studio recording at Studio A, Padova, June 2015
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD266

• 15 - Vedrai, Vedrai (L.Tenco) 4:36
  Ninni Arini
  Studio recording at Cantina Martinez, Marsala, January 27th, 2017
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD286

• 16 - Nia, nia, nia / Rodrigo Martines (Anonimous XVI sec.) 4:34
  Ensemble Terra d’Otranto
  Studio recording at Masseria Torcito, Lecce, october, 3rd, 2003
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD099

• 17 - Reso (D.B.Soto Chero) 3:08
  David Beltran Soto Chero Ensemble
  Studio recording at MagisterArea Studios, Preganziol, March, 19th, 2013
  from VELUT LUNA CVLD239

Production: Velut Luna
All Recordings, Mix & Mastering: Marco Lincetto
Cover: Nicole Martina Edwardes (photo by Marco Lincetto)
Layout: L’Image

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
The aim of this record is to let you appreciate particularly interesting music, played by first class musicians, recorded according to absolute excellence criteria. Moreover, thanks to the following side notes, we wish to make you able to know how this record has to be correctly played and therefore offer you a tool to evaluate how your reproduction equipment behaves, in relation to how it should behave... This does not mean, a priori, that, in case your equipment indicates a different sound from the one indicated in this guide, that it sounds “badly”: it actually and only means that it suggests a different sound from the one indicated by the person/s who has/have made the recording. If you are satisfied with the sound suggested by your equipment, though different from the one here indicated, there is no obligation to change anything. This record is only a “litmus paper” created to provide you with some extra info, you might consider useful or not and thanks to which you could freely choose if you wish to either listen to your equipment as it is or make some slight or substantial change. We are not going to offer any law carved in stone… we only offer extra indication to the ones you usually find in other records.

The listening equipment used to carry out this guide is the same monitor equipment used while producing it and is made of the following devices and set in the studio outlined in the plant:

CD Player + DAC: NORTH STAR DESIGN, Meccanica 192 + DAC SUPREMO

Pre-amplifier: NORMA SC-2

Multi-amplified Speakers: L + R: GENELEC 1037C

Subwoofer: GENELEC 7070

Wiring:
Mechanic --> DAC: WHITE GOLD I2S
DAC --> Pre-amplifier --> Speakers: VELUT LUNA WIRE, balanced and built upon our specifications

1 - DYNAMIC
Ogni brano qui proposto è caratterizzato da elevata o anche elevatissima dinamica; detta dinamica, però, varierà da brano a brano in funzione del tipo di musica proposta e della conseguente diversa tecnica di registrazione e mastering utilizzata. Ogni genere musicale, ogni situazione acustica richiede tecniche di ripresa anche molto differenti, strettamente funzionali all’ottenimento della miglior resa sonora finale. Questa è ovviamente una raccolta di brani di generi differenti, registrati in momenti e luoghi diversi. Per non alterare in alcun modo il suono originariamente concepito è stato scelto di non “normalizzare” dinamicamente le tracce fra loro: questo implica che spesso sarete costretti a manovrare la manopola del volume del vostro amplificatore, per mantenere il livello medio d’ascolto che avrete impostato con la traccia 1 di questo disco, che convenzionalmente abbiamo deciso di classificare come “punto zero”. Fra breve, nel corso dell’analisi traccia per traccia che di seguito proporremo, indicheremo appunto anche di quanto è necessario variare il volume medio per ottimizzare l’ascolto della singola traccia, in relazione alla traccia 1 di riferimento.

2 - SOUND IMAGE
All the tracks here suggested and analysed have been listened to by means of Velut Luna reference monitor equipment, with which they have also been verified during the production. You will find a sketch of the listening room, which is also Velut Luna mastering room. Conventionally, as usual, we have decided that the sound image of our recordings should obviously extend in width, height and deepness, but these three dimensions should be enclose within a rectangle extending in wideness from the central point of
the right diffusor, to the central point of the left one, with the front aligned between the two Speakers, and the back limit situated approximately one and a half metre backwards, in respect with the horizontal axis of the same Speakers. Such is, obviously, our convention, according to which we have

ANALYSIS TRACK AFTER TRACK: in the booklet