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Post by Bob Olhsson on Apr 28, 2024 11:17:09 GMT -6
We pioneered headphones at Motown in 1964 when we built our 8-track machines and added three isolation rooms. Before that, most people were singing to an Altec A-7 out in the studio. This remained SOP in many leading studios for another three to five years.
My first experience trying this was recording vocals for Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate" in 1971. Pete, the lead singer, just wasn't getting into it. He took a break and went to the bathroom. The singing I heard coming out of the bathroom sounded incredibly better. I quickly set up a Shure SM53 and handed it to him in the control room. After a great take, the rest of the band wanted to do the backgrounds the same way. The result was a huge hit.
In 1972 I was a volunteer engineer at KPFA radio in Berkeley California. There was no choice but to record music mid-1950s style. It was an incredible eye/ear-opener.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Apr 28, 2024 10:51:40 GMT -6
So, that local shop had it that day? I saw ads claiming only Target had it.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Apr 22, 2024 11:31:26 GMT -6
M-88 has better isolation, RE20 has a broader pattern.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Apr 22, 2024 11:28:17 GMT -6
They were only available at Target!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Apr 22, 2024 11:24:13 GMT -6
I've never heard anybody sing with headphones as well as they could without!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 24, 2024 22:38:36 GMT -6
They could help with a really heavy microphone that would be hard to shock mount.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 4, 2024 20:18:15 GMT -6
Live streaming during covid.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 4, 2024 18:06:37 GMT -6
Attractive album jackets turned collections of related songs into an active experience. It began with Verve jazz albums and A&M pop albums.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 4, 2024 12:20:15 GMT -6
It could be streaming related.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 4, 2024 11:44:07 GMT -6
People do LOVE engaging music as a foreground experience where they aren't doing anything else. They just don't get that experience very often today.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 2, 2024 19:16:20 GMT -6
Tours were the only source of net income prior to the late '60s and albums. The rise of the iPod wiped out what hadn't been destroyed by the crap packaging of CDs.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Feb 2, 2024 19:06:47 GMT -6
More like1990!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 25, 2024 21:18:49 GMT -6
Dark Side of the Moon was the first major label pop record that was tracked while monitoring in surround.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 24, 2024 22:49:25 GMT -6
The main problem with Atmos is remixing rather than making production decisions while monitoring in that format. Stereo production decisions need to be made while monitoring in stereo and likewise for mono. You will probably find yourself choosing different takes for each. I began my career in the mid 1960s when we were transitioning from mono to stereo and first learned this lesson.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 21, 2024 18:48:13 GMT -6
It also says the transducer is crystal! Billy? Or Gayle? No doubt Astatic...
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 21, 2024 12:34:40 GMT -6
It also says the transducer is crystal!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 21, 2024 12:33:15 GMT -6
That's REAL stereo which can actually be very immersive. Most of what we get and prefer is multi-mono with little spatial effect.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 20, 2024 22:21:07 GMT -6
Stereo was launched by hobbyists and not record labels or gear manufacturers. It only took over because large corporate retail chains stopped buying mono versions around 1968. The suits stumbled into making a lot of money and have been trying to repeat the same process since then but failing over and over.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 16, 2024 22:10:33 GMT -6
Whatever strings the guitar was set up with!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 11, 2024 20:38:41 GMT -6
Stevens recorders too.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 11, 2024 20:28:46 GMT -6
GML, Mastering Lab, Millennia.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 19:03:54 GMT -6
I play with them but am more impressed by a wide dynamic range.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 18:01:23 GMT -6
Geez Bob. No "Wonder" you passed the Motown IQ test portion, as a kid! Chris I was one of the dumber people at Motown but I wouldn't trade the experience and what I learned for anything. I've always preferred being the dumbest person in the room. I only understood maybe 10% of the conversations in JJ's newsgroup but I saw digital as on the verge of replacing analog.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 17:52:05 GMT -6
The problem is common 16-bit decoders and not the encoder. Dithering is not difficult for anybody, it's just that lots of developers have shown themselves to be lazy and I tend to not want to trust them.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 17:07:39 GMT -6
I think MIDI sequencing was the beginning! MIDI productions can be slick, but they are rarely as engaging as a group of real musicians playing together at the same time.
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