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| From | moteeko@telerama.com |
| Subject | Re: Recording the Beatles Book |
| Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:14:22 -0400 |
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Quoting Robert Sutliff <rsutliff@columbus.rr.com>:
> It depends on how much info you can handle! At over 500 pages of the most
> amazing material about Neumann U-47's, Studer J-37's, Fairchild 660's and
> whatnot, my brain is numb. For me it would be a bargain at twice the price.
>
<snip>
> In spite of the very technical information imparted it is wrtten in a manner
> that is very easy to understand. I am amazed at how much they were able ot
> accomplish with so little of what we in the recording world take for granted
> these days.
That is what I wanted to hear. And I think Bobby hit the nail on the head in the
second paragraph. What we have plug-ins for, the old-school engineers did with
mic placement. Maybe one of the reasons Geoff Emerick didn't contribute much is
because he was saving it for his own book...
> Ps - I watched that Youtube video of the Beatles doing Ticket To ride live
> at the NME thing. I dare any band in the world to pull that off without
> monitors in front of a few thousand screaming fans.
I was fortunate that a friend of mine had a massive collection of "Beatleg"
video many years ago, and it truly was amazing at how good they sounded live in
the unbelieveable conditions they played in. I read somewhere years back that
they claimed they really couldn't hear each other all that much (another reason
for sharing the mic, Hersh. Plus, it just looked cool!) and Ringo said he just
played what he was supposed to and hoped everybody was following along.
Yeah, maybe some folks did play better in the clubs, but the arenas back in the
day were a whole 'nother animal...
Greg,
still in October 2K6...I think...
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