Quartet No. 14 • Quartet No. 12 "American"

Total Playing Time: 56:57 **** Technical Information **** Recorded in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, January 8-9, 1991 & May 16-17, 1991 Microphones: Schoeps M-221B Tube with MK-2L capsules Console: Studer 961 Digital Recording Processor: Ultra-Analog 20-Bit, 128 times oversampling A/D, custom engineered by Kenneth Hamann Microphone Cables: Monster Cable Prolink Interconnecting Cables: Music Interface Technology (MIT) Proline Monitor Speakers: B&W 801 Matrix, Series II Power Amplifiers: Threshold S/1000 Stasis; Class A/AB Control Room Acoustic Treatment: Sonex from illbruck/usa Digital Editing: Sony DAE 3000 Har Disc Editing: digidesign Sound Designer II During the recording of the digital masters and the subsequent transfer to disc, the signal was not passed through any processing device (i.e., compression, limiting, or equalization) at any step during production. Special thanks to Joseph Chilorio, Mechanics Hall Audio Services Cover Photo: Theodore Butler, "The Train", Oil on canvas Coutesy Spanierman Gallery, New York