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Post by notneeson on Aug 29, 2019 20:14:01 GMT -6
So, I love this record, but I don't really know much about it other than the some of the GP lore bits.
A pedal steel player I've worked with is curious about the signal path, and I really don't know beyond a few educated guesses: Neumanns etc, custom desk, tape (duh), real chambers. Here's what wikipedia says:
Between March 9 and March 15, 1968, the band, accompanied by several prominent session musicians, recorded multiple takes of eight songs at Columbia Records' recording studios in the Music Row area of Nashville.[10] Recording sessions for the album continued from April 4 through May 27, 1968, at Columbia Studios in Hollywood, with a further seven songs recorded during these sessions and finishing touches applied to many of the tracks recorded in Nashville
Any insight on what Columbia Nashville was like in '68? Hollywood?
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Post by sean on Aug 29, 2019 21:08:18 GMT -6
Originally Columbia had a Gordon Clark custom built console. A good resource would be the AES Nashville Facebook page, there are a couple old guard members who could probably fill you.
Belmont owns the building now
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Post by dreamsambas on Aug 29, 2019 23:30:03 GMT -6
The studio in Nashville was the famous Quonset Hut studio, which was started by Owen Bradley in the 50s and inspired other Nashville studios.
The console would likely have been a custom tube console with Langevin 5116 amplifiers. The recorders would have been 4 or 8 track Ampex machines.
For outboard, the Quonset Hut in the late 60s had several Pultecs, a couple LA2As, and a couple UA 176s- which one of the engineers said in an interview were “very finicky”.
The mics were your standard 60s fare: U67, U47, M49, SM56, Altec mics, etc.
For echo, they had several EMT plates as well as a few live chambers.
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Post by chessparov on Aug 29, 2019 23:58:19 GMT -6
Gee I wonder how many plugins & virtual mic systems... It would take to duplicate all that? Chris
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Post by donr on Aug 30, 2019 0:41:11 GMT -6
Gee I wonder how many plugins & virtual mic systems... It would take to duplicate all that? Chris Chris, play any chart music from today to see what it would sound like. Just had a thought about old timers griping, it might be more nostalgia about dynamic range and rounding transients than there is about the sound of new tech of current pop. Content is another discussion, of course.
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Post by notneeson on Aug 30, 2019 8:02:18 GMT -6
Thanks all!
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