Recordingography

The recordings we reference when we study recording.

The goal is to sketch out key moments when recording craft contributed notably to the final sound.  Each entry could fit on a postcard – short and sweet and to the point.  We needn’t obsess with exactly how they did it; we just want some ideas for how we might do something similar at our studio.  Explore your own variations, inspired by these recordings.


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Something to Talk About

 

She's A Rainbow

 

Guess I'm Doing Fine

 

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Something to Talk About

 

Rock Steady

 

Hold Me My Daddy

 

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Hold Me My Daddy

 

Been Caught Stealing

 

Sweet Emotion

 

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Something to Talk About

 

Rock Steady

 

Kiss

Real rooms and most artifial reverb programs decay gradually to silence. The kick reverb used here ‘un-decays,’ getting louder before abruptly cutting off.  The AMS RMX-16 was used in this track.  It inspired many others to offer a similar preset.  

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China Girl

 

Money for Nothing

 

For the Love of Money

 

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Can't You Hear Me Knocking

 

First Use of Analog Tape in Professional Audio

Before tape was part of the consumer’s hi-fi system, and before tape was in the music recording studio, two German-made tape machines were put to use preparing Bing’s show for broadcast.  Pick-up your Oct 1, 1947 issue of Variety and you’ll read, “Tests were made for Crosby by the Palmer Co. of San 

Sound and Vision

 

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Something to Talk About

 

Kiss

Real rooms and most artifial reverb programs decay gradually to silence. The kick reverb used here ‘un-decays,’ getting louder before abruptly cutting off.  The AMS RMX-16 was used in this track.  It inspired many others to offer a similar preset.  

Sound and Vision

 

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For What It's Worth

 

Rumble

 

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

 

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Don't Do Me Like That

The Eventide H910 used on this Tom Petty track was the first digital pitch shifter made commercially available (1974). It made it’s first appearance in a record on David Bowie Low.  Have a listen to the snare in Sound and Vision, and you’re hearing history.    

Hold Me My Daddy

 

First Digital Pitch Shifter

What’s in a name like the H910? Tony Agnello, the inventor of the Eventide H910 Harmonizer, shares his inspiration for naming the device. “I was and am a Beatles fan and a fan of John Lennon in particular. I was 15 years old and attending Brooklyn Technical High School when Revolver was 

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Something to Talk About

 

Rock Steady

 

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

 

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Kiss

Real rooms and most artifial reverb programs decay gradually to silence. The kick reverb used here ‘un-decays,’ getting louder before abruptly cutting off.  The AMS RMX-16 was used in this track.  It inspired many others to offer a similar preset.  

You Can Call Me Al

 

Sweet Emotion

 

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First Use of Analog Tape in Professional Audio

Before tape was part of the consumer’s hi-fi system, and before tape was in the music recording studio, two German-made tape machines were put to use preparing Bing’s show for broadcast. ...

First Digital Pitch Shifter

What’s in a name like the H910? Tony Agnello, the inventor of the Eventide H910 Harmonizer, shares his inspiration for naming the device. “I was and am a Beatles fan...

Sound and Vision


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