![]() ![]() Recording Rooms are important.īut today, how important is it, really?, to use a proper isolated room for your recordings? I read many producers claim “I like this or this particular recording room for this or that particular drum sound”. I like to believe that the Recording Room, is like a character itself. Recording rooms are necessary as the process of recording changes.īutch Vig (Garbage) tells stories about producing and recording Nirvana´s “Something in the way” Kurt Cobain wash´t even inside the Recording Room! The amazing Ocean Way Recording Room in Nashville, TN which accommodates up to 80 musicians) Bruce Swedien at the Harrison console in Westlake Studios, mixing Michael Jackson´s “Thriller”. Quincy Jones sitting behind the desk during a recording session with T-Pain at Record Plant Recording Studios. Greg Holmes (Rush) in his Fairlight studio. “I´m a material producer living in a material world” We see “bigger than life” recording rooms, and “Man vs the machine” control rooms. Also used to isolate guitars amps, percussion instruments or other singers / speakers. Specially for singers: The vocal Booth (or the ISO booth. Beginning with double tracking, overdubbing, 8 track, 16 track, 32 and more track recording, the creation of stereo we see more recording rooms built inside of a recording room as well. Technological advances like creating equalisers, compressors, rever and delay modules, synthesisers and many many “toys” recording techniques advances as well. Meanwhile I´ll pour me a pint of guatemalan dark beer. Want to take a tour inside? This virtual tour inside of Abbey Road can take you a few hours. Imagine being there to record your music!Īctually you can go there without leaving the confort of your chair. This is the construction plans of Recording Room Number One. (I can´t imagine me wearing even a tie to a session today). The staff used white robes! They surely took their scientifically job very seriously and the engineers wore suits to the recording sessions. To me, not only is the Abbey Road Studios in London legendary for the Beatles (and many other great artists) recordings, but because of the science and technological importance the brought to the recording industry. The control room were equipment was placed for operations.) You can see the recording room were the musicians played and behind them, behind the glass, ( 1930´s Tech Laboratories faders built in this Mixing Console) A device that might group together all level controls and switches for more then one microphone. ( “The recording studio setup consisted of a room in which musicians were arranged around a horn.”)īut with the development of tube amplifiers, condenser microphones and moving from an acoustical to an electrical process of recording sound into the disc, then it came the recording console or mixer. In this setup there was no need for room separation: Mixing simply consisted of arranging the musicians and instrumentes at varying distances and heights from the main recording horn. This horn gathered sound and fed it acoustically to a vibrating diaphragm and cutting stylus. The recording studio setup consisted of a room in which musicians were arranged around a horn. “The storage/plackback media were either wax cylinders or shellacs discs that were cut live, one at a time. ![]() Thompson, author of “Understanding Audio” (Berklee Press, 2005) help us during this journey from these days to our days. Take a look at this amazing video/audio recording.Īround 1920 all recording were made “direct to disc”.ĭaniel M. Was this a glimpse of the future in recording audio? How did the engineer kept the recording sounding seamlessly? ![]() I was excited to see the creative process of recording audio being accomplished in a innovative way. In the following video, we´ll see how the song “Stand by me” is being recorded by musicians and engineers from the “Playing for Change” movement. ![]()
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