Often, you are the connective tissue: connecting individuals and teams, manufacturing serendipity to open up collaborations, and quietly supporting and cheering from the back. I’ll think that I really didn’t do much of anything and then I’ll look at a mix and find that I’m using 50 things on it. I always need a great plate like an EMT 140 and a short 25 to 32 ms delay just in back of the vocal. Page would say that he made me do it but he was down at the pub, but he did bring me his Binson Echorec for the track. About the only thing that should move is the melody and the occasional other part here and there in support of the melody.

Now we might end up staying to 5 or 6AM when we could’ve been done at like 1 in the afternoon (laughs). TIP: Don’t ask for the setup information too far in advance since much can change by the day of the session. This reference point can come from being an assistant engineer and listening to what other first engineers do, or simply by comparing your mix to some CD’s, records or files that you’re very familiar with and consider to be of high fidelity. Now if I have a problem with a guy’s instrument where it doesn’t respond well to that mic then I’ll change it, but that happens so seldom. As a matter of fact, you can erase a part that somebody played and they’ll just replace the part and nobody seems to care about what’s not there anymore.Your job is to identify the gaps and create safe leadership spaces for others to grow into, a process that requires a combination of effective sponsoring and mentorship. Like, for example, an acoustic guitar will all of a sudden have 7 different viewpoints of where this guitar’s being recorded. I was able to do it at a low figure because I could do it when I wanted to and I wasn’t spending anybody’s money except my own. Being explicit establishes clear shared expectations and provides an artifact to evaluate your success against in the future. You hope that your ears are working with your soul along with your objectivity, but truly you can never be sure.

Owsinski’s books and this one in particular are awesome for fundamentals as well as some more advanced concepts. For instance, I know that I’m going to immediately start with a tube U 47 about 18 inches from the F-hole on an upright bass. With credits like Led Zeppelin, Free, Traffic, Blind Faith, The Rolling Stones and most recently Van Halen (to name just a few), Andy has set a standard that most mixers are still trying to live up to. This week tweed might be in, so even if I’m giving you the best silk in the world, you’re not going to be interested. I don’t care if it’s Classical or Rock or Country, you’ve got to capture that performance and the hell with the bloody leakage.See for yourself why The Recording Engineer’s Handbook, Fifth Edition is the book that’s a standard text in college music production courses all over the world.

Redesigned and updated to reflect both the latest in technology and recent changes in the marketplace, this new edition shows you both the fundamentals, and the advanced aspects of both self-mastering, and prepping your mix for mastering by a pro. Sometimes some mids need to be cut or other frequencies need to be added, but regardless what you add or subtract, Clarity is what you aim for. So granted, it is a little more difficult to deal with those issues today, but I still take the same approach with every mix.It should be less about the specific pieces of equipment - this factor is ALWAYS changing, and a good recording engineer's handbook should give you the building blocks to make informed decisions and to experiment intelligently, regardless if you are recording on an SSL with vintage Neumanns, or into your computer at home with garageband and a 50 Euro USB mic. Not the least of its attributes is the use, where appropriate, of data and calculations in both Imperial and SI units, so that all generations of model engineers can feel at home. Elliot Scheiner: I went back and forth, but at that point the office knew that I could do some small dates so they started throwing me voice-overs for radio and TV commercials. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Channel Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.