Living the Studio Dream By Michael Laskow I’m a mic and wires guy. The day I got my first gig in the music business (Criteria Studios, 1975), the Eagles were recording One of These Nights, Clapton was recording 461 Ocean Blvd., the Bee Gees were recording Jive Talkin,’ and Stephen Stills was recording a solo album. All of it was happening under one roof – the roof where I got to clean up after them. I worked really hard, kept my ears and eyes open, my head low, ...
Funny...I've never taken the time to look back over the years and see where things have changed for me technologically. If anything, I'm going to use this Cakewalk post to see where I've been and where I'm going. In the 80's I found my calling to music through singing and guitar. Learning tab from the new tab magazines back then. Singing over top of prerecorded cassettes. For Christmas one year I was given a boombox, dual cassette with mic input. That was when things started to get ...
Updated 05-21-2010 at 11:28 AM by mrmelody
Hello all. Greetings from rainy northern California (in a typical year we should be roasting from dry heat waves at this time!). I finished the marathon recording sessions of the six Bach cello suites last night - here are the numbers: 1 cellist playing all by herself, on 2 different cellos, one with 2 different tunings. 2 movements repeated entirely with ad lib ornamentation, 2 movements with improvised pizzicato sections. 36 tracks done in over 30 hours of session ...
After four intense days of (in no particular order) hob-nobbing, speaking with old and new colleagues, meetings, judging the student recording competition (three finalists from 28 entries in the Classical Stereo field), mentoring students, receptions and an intense discussion amongst fellow Board of Governors members, I'm ready for a short break before the next commercial release recording project. The Novotel London West convention centre was packed for the technical programme; in particular the ...
I finished three days of sessions with the ensemble "Les Grâces", a small group who specialise on performances of late 17-th Century French music on the kinds of instruments used in that time. Two of the members are in the final stages of getting their doctorate degrees in musicology from UC Berkeley; the other two perform music from other eras as well. The challenges were to work in a less-than-ideal acoustic, monitor a surround recording through stereo headphones, and (as I produced ...
All my life, the center channel has been too loud. Always someone there, right in the middle talking, blah blah blah. At the pub, someone wants to talk to me. Over dinner, someone wants to talk to me. I turn my head but the annoying sound of someone talking just gets louder in one ear. Until now. With the SPL MS Master, I can finally turn down that pesky center channel of my existence, that forever contains the sound of someone telling me something that I probably don't care about. ...
When it rains, it pours! A couple of weeks after the last project with a four-person period-instrument group, I have another one. A different configuration, different acoustic, different repertoire and for a different end purpose. Let me start at the beginning. The group "Agave Baroque" (www.agavebaroque.org) contacted me about recording audio for an art film commissioned by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles (www.mjt.org). Since this would be a DVD release, ...
As the last note slowly faded into a pressing silence, I noticed the rain outside. The wind made the drops play a surreal soundtrack to the situation I was in. The room was dark, only to be lit by the light of the LCD display on top of my desk. The blinking LED lights of my monitors, the mixer and the various instruments surrounding my workplace reminded me of cheap sci-fi movies. I felt depressed. The last few months had put a strain on my sanity. What started out as a glorious adventure ...
Intro Hi, my name is Alex and I am a local Nyc techno producer. I specialize on German styled techno, we have tracks released on Beatport under UberKontrol label. First i should start with a quote A switchable mid-side A coincident-pair stereo microphone technique using a forward-facing unidirectional, omnidirectional, or bidirectional mic and a side-facing bidirectional ...
Currently I have to go ITB to do any M/S processing when mastering a project. I would love to do M/S processing using my analog chain, and the SPL M/S master would allow me easily do this. It makes the M/S workflow easy by patching in mid/and side inserts directly into the SPL Master allowing me to bypass a patchbay. This is done by the use of high quality relays in the M/S Master (so is powerfail safe if your other processors are relay hard bypass too). The SPL M/S Master would allow me to switch ...
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