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Look for this logo! It means the source was recorded at 96 kHz/24 Bits! |
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Our Mission I love music of all kinds! From Bach (my personal all-time favorite) to Mel Powell and The Beatles to Dave Brubeck, music has the ability to bypass your senses and connect directly to your head and heart. I also enjoy working with technology. As a kid, I built Heathkit products...receivers and even an electric guitar and amplifier. So what better thing to do everyday than make the best recordings/products I can make using the latest state-of-the-art equipment. It's a dream come true and I'm thrilled to be able to share the fruits of my passion with you. AIX Records is dedicated to recording and releasing the finest quality audio products available anywhere in any format. Using state-of-the-art, high-resolution, digital equipment and a signal path that maintains 96 kHz/24 Bits fidelity throughout, we seek to enhance the experience of listening to music through improvements in sound quality, innovative 5.1 channel surround mixing perspectives and by adding plenty of interactive disc-based annotational materials. All of our DVD products are playable on DVD-Audio and DVD-Video machines (although the high-resolution audio is limited to the new DVD-Audio players). As a composer, musician and recording engineer, I have been involved with a variety of musical styles. On one particular occasion, after having spent almost 4 hours lying underneath a 9-foot grand piano listening to a performance of a Morton Feldman composition, I came to the realization that a listening experience could be completely detached from the physicality of a performance. Just because it's necessary for a pianist to play their instrument from a single position shouldn't mean that the sound should be limited to a single point source. Why not place multiple stereo pairs of microphones close to the strings of the piano and then surround the listener with a very wide "meta" piano sound. The Chopin Ballades DVD is an example of that recording/mixing philosophy. Our products are NOT "archival documents" of a live performance, although the tracks are recorded without overdubbing or editing. AIX Records believes that composers of all genres would embrace the "spatial" aspect of music if they had the opportunity to do so. Musicians and composers have experimented with physical placement of choirs, instrumentalists and electronic sounds for hundreds of years...it's time we brought surround music to home listening environments. The music on our DVDs is a deliberate departure from the "purist" two-channel standard for recorded music. At every stage of the process, we have challenged convention in an attempt to bring music of all types to new audiences. Sitting on the stage with a symphony orchestra or jazz ensemble may be a "radically" different point of view for some consumers, but it is still be a valid creative expression involving the composer, performers, engineers and producers. Most DVD-Audio releases are merely remixes of existing analog recordings. The real benefits of 96 kHz/24 Bit recording can't be fully appreciated until you've heard tracks that were created specifically for DVD-Audio. Take a listen and let me know what you think. Mark Waldrep, Ph.D President mark.waldrep@aixrecords.com |
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