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| Re: London studios in the 60s [message #80301 is a reply to message #80191] |
Sun, 18 February 2007 19:24  |
Paul Braun
Messages: 391
Registered: September 2005
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On 17 Feb 2007 15:33:28 +1000, "James McCloskey"
<excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYn1wbj9Q1w
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVACKiK3zdQ&NR
Very cool.
I learned a lot of this by reading Geoff Emerick's book "Here, There
and Everywhere". He talks about the "White Coats" and the "Brown
Coats". Also talks about the division of duties - the engineers were
not allowed to touch the microphones - only the maintenance guys could
do that. And the tape ops were in another room, often on another
floor, and could only communicate with signal lights and intercoms.
Emerick was the first guy to insist that the tape decks be moved into
the control room, something necessitated by the advent of 8-track. He
also broke the EMI "microphone formula", where there was a prescribed,
approved setup for mics for a pop session - "the drum mic goes here,
the guitar mic goes here, the bass mic goes here" and you were not
allowed to deviate from that.
Until The Beatles. Recording The Beatles gave Emerick a tremendous
amount of leeway, and he did things that might have gotten him fired,
like close-miking an instrument. Or stuffing a blanket in Ringo's
kick drum.
Get the book. Fascinating reading.
pab
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