Hi all!
I hope we can all learn something useful from these links, at least i did, so today was a good day. I also have to thank for the links i've recieved this month. Keep em coming!
No tip is to simple or fundamental. What you think is child's play someone else is struggling with. Keep sharing.
Favorite microphones? By Fletcher
http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/misc/fletcher/mics.php
Working At Success by Barry Rudolph
http://www.prosoundweb.com/enews/0311/0311.php
Getting the inside dope from the hotters mixers in Manhattan By Jimmy Douglass
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_getting_inside_dope/index.html
The Recording Studio Design Page By Malcolm Chisholm 1929-2003 R.I.P
http://pages.ripco.net/~chisholm/rsdp/INDEX.HTM
Containing universal thruths like these.
Live room tip
"Don't use thin treatment like carpeting and drapes, these absorp 2-14 % bass, whilst soaking out 60-70% of top end, giving the musicians a room with no prescence and extreme boominess to work in, not to mention what the microphones pick up."
Control room tip
"I've been supporting consoles on 19" racks for years and i'm astonished that so few people do, as it's such a sensible idea. The chief advantage of mounting gear like desk drawers is that you can adjust them while facing the speakers. The alternative with sidecar gear tweaking puts the mixer into monural with one ear facing the speakers, and turning around to use equipment behind the mix position hardly bears thinking about."
Is it the use of free runners that has aloud big studios to use this way of working? "Hey kid, theak that silvery knob at the bottom of that rack , but do it slowly and clockwise";)
The "Brown Sugar" Sessions: J
Jimmy Johnson on Recording the Stones By Bruce Borgerson
http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/bruce_borgeson/shoals3/sugar.shtml
Take care and we'll be back in November with more interesting stuff! /Toby 