Donald Fagen: Morph the Cat (DVD-Audio 24/96 Dolby Digital, DTS 6-Channel rip)
2006 | Genre: Jazz, Audiophile | DVD-A Rip 24-bit/96kHz 5.1 Channel DTS Surround | FLAC+HQ scans | 3.2GB
2006 | Genre: Jazz, Audiophile | DVD-A Rip 24-bit/96kHz 5.1 Channel DTS Surround | FLAC+HQ scans | 3.2GB
| “ | This is a great album all around. It's nothing ground breaking but if you like Steely Dan, you'll like this. However the dvd-a is excellent. I don't have a surround setup, but still listen to music through a dedicated two channel system. Regardless of what others say you don't need a 5.1 or 6.1 setup to take advantage of the dvd-a. There is an option to listen in surround or advanced resolution stereo. Sitting dead in front of two speakers and listening to an album like this in 24bit/96kHz is something else. All the music just jumps out and envelopes the room. To really take advantage of it, do yourself a favor and turn it up ,this is really where you hear the difference. For all the delight their fans take in parsing their wry and obstinately obscure lyrics, Steely Dan wouldn't command the kind of following they have if they weren't such consummate craftsmen in shaping melodies, layering keyboard and guitar effects and applying sophisticated doses of jazz, funk and soul. On his own albums, of which Morph the Cat is only the third--and the first since 1993's Kamakiriad--the group's sardonic co-mastermind Donald Fagen avails himself to more socially observant and personally revealing themes. But here, too, it's the music's dark shimmer and bumptious grooves that get under your skin, carrying his serious intentions with them. The grandly allusive "Morph," named after what Fagen describes as a "vast, ghostly cat-thing" that hovers in the Manhattan sky (not unlike Woody Allen's catty mother in "New York Stories"), reflects with no loss of irony or oblique meaning on the angst and sense of loss felt in the post-9/11 world. There are visions of death--including his own--and political oppression. There's a comic romantic encounter with a female airport security guard and a reverent faceoff with the ghost of Ray Charles, whose essence is nailed: "Well, you bring some church but you leave no doubt/As to what kind of love you love to shout about." Even when Fagen's hipster sensibility flirts with preciousness, the music is so richly, radiantly alive, the collective power of the songs can't be denied. Amazon review | ” |
Artists:
Donald Fagen, vocals, Fender piano, piano, organ, melodica solo
Keith Carlock, drums
Freddie Washington, bass guitar
Walt Weiskopf, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
Mark Patterson, trombone
Lawrence Feldman, clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute
Roger Rosenberg, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Gordon Gottlieb, percussion
Phonus Quaver, vibes and marimba
plus additional artists, listed in the scanned material
Tracks:
1. Morph the Cat
2. H Gang
3. What I Do
4. Brite Nitegown
5. Great Pagoda of Funn
6. Security Joan
7. Night Belongs to Mona
8. Mary Shut the Garden Door
9. Morph the Cat (Reprise)
DVD-Audio recorded and released 2006
IMPORTANT INFORMATION...PLEASE READ!Donald Fagen, vocals, Fender piano, piano, organ, melodica solo
Keith Carlock, drums
Freddie Washington, bass guitar
Walt Weiskopf, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
Mark Patterson, trombone
Lawrence Feldman, clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute
Roger Rosenberg, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Gordon Gottlieb, percussion
Phonus Quaver, vibes and marimba
plus additional artists, listed in the scanned material
Tracks:
1. Morph the Cat
2. H Gang
3. What I Do
4. Brite Nitegown
5. Great Pagoda of Funn
6. Security Joan
7. Night Belongs to Mona
8. Mary Shut the Garden Door
9. Morph the Cat (Reprise)
DVD-Audio recorded and released 2006
This is a rip of the original 5.1 24/96 6-Channel DVD-Audio to 6-channel wave files, compressed with FLAC. Burn to DVD using your favorite authoring software (I use discWelder CHROME). I must notify you in advance about watermarked DVD-Audio. This rip has been burned and successfully tested on three of my DVD players (Panasonic, Marantz and Oppo), but due to the inherent watermarking of DVD-A, a few DVD standalone models may not play them. You can, however, play ripped and watermarked DVD-Audio on your PC with no problems.
So that you may test the process without downloading the entire 3.2GB rip, I've uploaded a single 24/96 6-channel test file of Track 9 to Rapidshare -- http://rapidshare.com/files/256880939/FaMoCa_test.rar-- that can be burned to DVD using a DVD Audio authoring program. If it plays on your DVD player without stopping after 15 or 20 seconds, the entire DVD-Audio will play without a hitch and you can download all the files in the main link below with confidence and enjoy the phenomenal sound provided by DVD-Audio.
@rsfoto
That's a great idea, and even though I have a 5:1 multi-channel system at home that sounds amazing playing these DVD rips, I'd love to burn one of these high res rips for my car and iPod. I'll give it a try, thanks!
Regards.
I've donwloaded this record, and ended up with 9 flac files, no separate channels to use in discwelder. Is this ok? I've trying to make a dvd-a with these files but couldn't.
Am I doing something wrong?
PLEASE, HELP!!
Regards...
PS: you could take the extra step and convert the waves to MLP using Surcode MLP program, but that's tedious and you'll get excellent results if you just decompress the flacs to wave files, author and burn with discwelder.
Disc Welder Chrome II dosn't recognize flac files, so I had to decompress them to .wav
http://www.schudy.de/dts/dts2ac3stereo-e.htm
Also, I just noticed this comment from a fellow avac-er posting under one of my previous DVD-a rips who accomplished the same thing you're seeking:
"I don't have a surround system so I made my own new 24-48 stereo mix with Audacity (great free audio editor). I did the same with all VanPelton's previous 6 channel posts. New stereo mixes Sounds Great! If you want to try for yourself be sure to lower the gain of each channel by about 5-7db to prevent clipping in the mixdown. Also adjust panning to full left for ch 1 & 5 and full right for ch 2 & 6. Leave 3 and 4 at center as they are center bass. Export as FLAC, WAV or AIFF. This gives me a mix that is similar to CD but now is 24-48. My new Nightfly mix is sounds far superior to my 1980's CD and MFSL vinyl LP. Load into iTunes and have fun."
BTW, not to sound discourteous, but your handle may be a misnomer *grin*. Good luck!
The only benefit of the DVD-A version of these albums vs. the MVI DVD versions is the lossless multi-channel content. The "advanced resolution" PCM stereo content, and the DTS content is identical on both releases of the Trilogy. If these rips are of the DTS content from the DVD-A releases, then the MVI DVD ISOs are a better option to download, as do not get the bonus tracks and videos on the DVD-A releases.
If you need a stereo version of these, the best mix is the PCM 24/96 (24/48 for "The Nightfly"). I haven't listened to the multi-channel mix on a surround system, but downmixed to 2-channels, the multi-channel mix becomes inferior to the stereo mix. The stereo mixes are absolutely breathtaking!