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well,it's worked for me and it's worked for brian may for years,so.....
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matthew
www.allairestudio.com

you can try with two 57's.one on axis pointing straight at the centre of the cone and the other right underneath it off axis at about 45 degrees pointing at the edge of the cone.try flipping the polarity of one of the mics.blend the two together for a tone that has plenty of weight in the lower mids...

one of our rooms doesn't have a control room.it takes a little getting used to at first,but i really like it. you can see pictures here http://www.allairestudios.com/studios/studios_neve.html and here http://www.gg1band.com/Index%203A/index-3A.html i wear cans for tracking,beyer DT150's and listen o...

i once spent hours transfering a 2' multitrack,track by track to a dat only to find out later that what they wanted was the transfer to adat.i thought it was a strangely worded request,but when i checked with the studio manager she was adamant that it was "multitrack to a dat"........the joys of mis...

pocket calculator by kraftwerk

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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

engineering gigs= about 90%

assisting gigs=about 70%

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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

yeah,still haven't got mine yet either...i can't remember where i am on the tree though.probably at the bottom...
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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

yep,i get salary here.i'm the only full time staff engineer here.my salary covers 40 hours a week,anything over that and i get in time off.
if both rooms are booked we hire a temp from our pool of ringers...
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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

that's nice Chris......so,can you tell me where you look for those kinda things??
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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

so,my boss keeps telling me about the prophet omega and the ships moving company radio comercials he did.i have been trying to find them online,but with no luck.anybody have any idea where such things could be found,and other stuff like that?? i have the troggs and buddy rich tapes.apparently there ...

yup,it can do a whole lot of things it has a compressor.a distortion.a phaser...these are all fixed.then you have the bitrness knob which you can choose to control comb filtering,bit reduction,decimation,frequency modulation and a ring modulator.choose yer bitrness and then choose the order in which...

my friend and mentor Mike Ross-Trevor recorded some of that first Hendrix record.i'll send him an e-mail and ask him EXACTLY what he used.i do remember him saying it was the first time he used more than two mics on a drum kit and that Jimi told him to put the mic away from the guitar amp as "i play ...

KRK E7's.
NS-10M with Yamaha PS220 amp
ATC super linear
custom built George Auspurger's.really fucking great at all volumes.
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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

that's funny Matter,'cos i was gonna say the same thing only the other way around, 57 on front 421 on the back.this works really well on AC30's.they seem to throw as much sound out the back as they do the front.....
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matthew
www.allairestudios.com

funny....i have a friend,Mike Ross-Trevor an engineer from the '60's to the present and my recording mentor....anyway,i had a conversation with him once about why studios got rid of so much of their tube gear.he told me how,when neuman introduced the 87 and the fet 47 they were really happy.due to t...