FIVE/FOUR PRODUCTIONS LAUNCHES WITH
LAVRY ENGINEERING AD122-96MKIII CONVERTERS

Three LavryGold A/D Conversion Systems Enable Ultimate Stereo and
Surround Mastering for Stanley Clarke Trio, John Adams’ ‘Transmigration of Souls’

CLEVELAND: Recording, mixing and mastering without boundaries – that’s the philosophy at Five/Four Productions. A newly launched independent audio production team, Five/Four has gathered 15 GRAMMY® Awards under its belt and set out to bring its extreme sonic experience to artists, labels and projects worldwide.

An all-star collective, Five/Four consists of Michael Bishop, Robert Friedrich, Bill McKinney and Thomas Moore, who are all former key production members of the renowned classical, jazz and blues label Telarc Records. The group travels globally to projects of all genres with their handpicked recording gear, and when their audio returns to their Cleveland headquarters, their LavryGold AD122-96MKIII A/D converters from Lavry Engineering (www.lavryengineering.com) are crucial to the mastering chain.

“We’ve been fortunate to wear so many hats in our past careers with Telarc, and that’s  given us the ability to bring so many services to our clients now,” says Michael Bishop, Engineer/Producer and Co-Founder of 5/4 Productions. “While some of our gear is there for color, the converters have to get out of the way without adding anything of its own. Our LavryGold AD122-96MKIII’s are a place in our signal path for technical excellence and absolute transparency.”

Equally comfortable in the studio and on location, the Five/Four team is at home with a wide variety of musical genres. Rock, pop, blues, jazz, classical and beyond are all well within their comfort zone, in projects of any size or complexity. Once they capture their world-class recordings using their road rigs, Bishop goes to work in his mastering suite to prepare it for release on CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray, LP, film and game soundtracks, plus all music download formats.

“The LavryGold AD122 is an absolutely essential piece in our mastering chain – we haven’t found another A/D converter that holds as true as the Lavry does,” Bishop says. “The LavryGold retains the width and depth of the source, with all of the detail but without exaggerating any of that detail. Dan Lavry’s attention to the analog section is extremely faithful to what’s being put into it: There’s no image shift, no emphasis of any frequency spectrum. It just holds very true to what’s coming into it.”

With his experience in multichannel audio stretching clear back to the pioneering days of Quad, Bishop is an authority on today’s Surround formats. With three of the LavryGold AD122-96MKIII’s in place, Bishop has established the ultimate path to 5.1 Surround mastering. “I personally have worked with multichannel surround since 1970,” states Bishop. “Every one of our sessions has a stereo and surround master recording. Whether the client asks for surround or not, we feel it’s important to have the capability to provide it. No matter what the format, our Lavry’s are the final step before our audio returns to the digital domain.” 
The LavryGold AD122-96MKIII features -127dB dynamic range (unweighted), with 0.00005% Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise, Conversion to 24 bits, built-in Acoustic Bit Correction re-dithering to 16-20 bit formats, and much more. Consistently used for many of today’s top recordings, the AD122-96MKIII provides optimum musical results.

Most recently Five/Four Productions put the finishing touches on Jazz in the Garden, the latest release by the Stanley Clarke Trio. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of Transmigration of Souls by composer John Adams, only the second recording of this landmark piece commemorating 9/11, also recently went through Bishop’s discerning mastering suite.   

With LavryGold in the signal path, Michael Bishop and Five/Four Productions feel equipped to safeguard today’s recordings for the future. “Many in production see iTunes as the only means of putting something out, but that’s short-sighted: we’re confident that high resolution and transparency will continue to be embraced as well,” Bishop says. “Our Lavry gear fits perfectly into that vision.”   

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About Lavry Engineering:
Lavry Engineering, located in Poulsbo, Washington, was founded by digital audio expert Dan Lavry in 1993. The company specializes in products for professional audio, broadcast, audiophile and surround markets designed to satisfy the growing demand for hi-res digital audio performance. Lavry Engineering’s Gold, Black and Blue product lines offer a range of systems accommodating a wide range of budgets and applications. For more information, please visit www.lavryengineering.com.

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About Five/Four Productions:
For more information, please visit www.fivefourproductions.com.