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    Topic:   Buddy Graham

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    Over the past few years, one engineer's name has appeared more and more in my favourite-sounding CDs: Buddy Graham (aka Bud Graham).

    All are Sony/CBS discs. Graham has been with Sony for over thirty years.
    Through those three decades, Graham's style has remained very consistent.
    Strings with a deep bassy edge; woodwinds placed a little in the background, though perfectly audible; loud percussion with just enough reverb; and biting, powerful brass.

    Ever notice how on many recordings the lower brass often sounds two-dimensional? It has a pinched, dry sound to it? Graham's engineering of brass instruments almost seems to make them sound better than in concert. They have a powerful, full-bodied and golden tone to them.

    Add that to the warm, bassy strings, and the never-obnoxious woodwinds, and you have some of the most pleasant sounding recordings produced.

    Sure, I wonder how "natural" a number of these recordings are. I cannot imagine that there would be such consistency in recording equipment, recording venues, orchsetras, repertoire, soloists, producers and conductors over a period of thirty years. But albums engineered by Graham sound so good, it's hard to accuse him of manipulation.

    A partial list of his credits is available at AllClassical.com http://www.allclassical.com/cg/acg.dll?p=acg&sql=1:26731~PP#CREDITS

    But that list is incomplete. First because it features only CD albums (thus excluding all the LPs Graham engineered for CBS) and second because even a number of CD items are missing.

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