SOUND ON SOUND
Zwiepack: Our engineer captured one jazz session using two completely different recording techniques. Which one won the day?
I recently bought myself a pair of Event Opal speakers. I’ve only had them for about 10 days, so I’m still...
Zwiepack: Our engineer captured one jazz session using two completely different recording techniques. Which one won the day?
Bearing in mind my room is untreated and I do the bulk of my mixing on headphones.
Hannes Keseberg: our engineer helps an artist fake a big-ensemble sound by layering recordings of a string quintet.
This month tracks from Krept & Konan, Fleur East, One Direction, Rod Stewart, Tame Impala and our Classic Mix is Britney Spears ‘Toxic’.
What’s the ‘secret’? Shall I not bother with gating them.
I’ve got to the point at mixdown where I’d usually be thinking about sending everything through a couple of global reverbs/delays with a view to simulating a soundstage. Would this have actually been possible for a mix engineer in that decade?
Hannes Keseberg: our engineer helps an artist fake a big-ensemble sound by layering recordings of a string quintet.
Musician Chris Thile is quoted as saying he'd decided never to record wearing headphones again. I don’t get this. What’s wrong with headphones?