JIMI HENDRIX

Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock features two audio tracks for your listening pleasure. Offered up are a 5.1 Dts-HD Master Audio track encoded at 24/48khz bit and sample rate, and a two channel Dts track encoded at 24/48khz bit and sample rate. Recorded, mixed, and remixed by the legendary Eddie Kramer under the most primitive of conditions, the soundtrack is raw and unrefined, but captures Jimi Hendrix performance exceptionally well. Fidelity is not up to today standards, as the bass sounds muddy and indistinct and without much bottom end oomph. Jimi Hendrix’s guitar is well captured, revealing every pitch bend, inflection, and searing distortion laden riff with complete clarity. Drums are also well captured, revealing a very loose snare tuning, every cymbal brush and crash, but also revealing an ill defined bass drum capture. Hendrix vocals are always intelligible, but can sometimes be a bit buried in the mix. In spite of the fact there are two percussionists and an added guitar player, they are not heard and appear edited out of the mix. The recording is as raw as it gets, but it is good enough to capture the presence and spirit of the performance.