50's Style Recording::One Ribbon, All Analog Signal To Tape

I've always wonder this: Why do people use pegboard acoustic treatment? This studio has it both on the walls and the gobos. Anybody know what the theory is? He says he's randomizing the reflections, but is pegboard a good diffuser? He also says he's minimizing the reflections, but there's a lot hard surface area as well as the holes.

A pegboard facing over fiberglass or foam reflects high frequencies and midrange more evenly.

Watching that just makes me miss the past generations . Each one brought its own magic and sound . The artwork on the walls , the music..........Then theres today ......2017....makes me feel depressed . From an art standpoint things really , really suck today . What a crappy time to grow up as a kid . Back then you had Elvis and Buddy Holly..today you have justin bieber and kanye west .

Hey scumbum, how old are you?

Anywhere! What you don't want is muddy reflected sound off the walls. Flat response just sounds like delay.

The idea is to have equal absorption at all frequencies. Fiberglass or foam absorb way more highs than lower mids.

Absorption increases with frequency. The traditional studio construction was to use 4" of air space behind the fiberglass and face it with pegboard so the room wouldn't sound muffled and performers wouldn't be singing and playing a lot louder than they would be in an ordinary room.

Not that old 37 .

But i was lucky to grow up before the internet and computers really took off , I miss that time . I don't own a smart phone and never will .

I was fortunate that I was always listening to good music growing up . Grandma was in love with Elvis ,  frank sinatra , fred astaire and old movies . My mom was in love with the beatles and dad was in a bar cover band playing 50's-60's music . So even though I didn't grow up in those generations they were pretty relevant to my childhood because I have memories of sitting in front of a record player listening to them at home or Grandma's house . 

I was known as the kid who listened to "His parents music" in school , but I didn't care .....I thought most of the current stuff was crap even back then .

It stopped because studios ignorantly wanted more isolation in the late 1960s. RCA had learned that lesson the hard way in the '30s but the wheel has this way of getting reinvented.

I'm always trying minimal mic sessions. It's hard to get people to sign off on the results, no matter how good they are. The lack of later options is generally paralyzing to most people. I've gotten a few full band tracks done to live stereo onto records, with some arm-twisting on my part. Several things that morph between live 2 track and multi-track, then back. Just takes practice. What can be really interesting is to track to mono x3-4, with 3-4 mics in an array so you choose 1 only, choice depending on the dynamic outcome of the performance.

I'm weird . My parents call me kramer from seinfeld . I don't look like him or dress like him , I'm just into all these different random things like Kramer and I kinda act like him . He hangs out with all these random people and has random things he gets into .  I'm ashamed to say I shop at Hot Topic . My favorite music is punk . But I listen to everything . I go from Slayer to ABBA , Frank Sinatra , to Pantera in one listening session .

 I feel like when Korn Follow the Leader came out , is when  music started to go down hill and die . So I like everything up to that album . That album was a let down . So 1998 , the death of music for me .