(via Bob Heil, Whose Innovations Enhanced the Sound of Rock, Dies at 83 - The New York Times)
Bob Heil’s career as a groundbreaking sound engineer who brought thunder and rich sonic coloring to tours by rock titans like the Grateful Dead and the Who began behind a pipe organ in a 1920s movie palace.
Oh wow, thank you for sending this video! It is so cool to hear from someone who has experience as a sound engineer! Harry's albums are incredibly high quality. The sound landscape in them are so vast, they take you on a whole journey. I always find myself discovering new things in his music because it has so many layers, sonically. It is truly beautiful. I may not be a sound engineer, but I experience everything this guy is discussing in the video. Everything is done super intentionally, you can hear the vision for each song. And he is right, those intentional decisions are made throughout the recording process, not at the end on the mixing table. Intentional music that is rich sonically, bringing his voice and words to life
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This is the tedious work behind your favorite music that you rarely get to see. When i was an engineers apprentice, this was the sound that accompanied the start of every morning. In this video a studio apprentice is adjusting the calibration and alignment of the Studer A80 tape machine at Omega Recording Studio. The MRL Calibration Tape plays a 1khz frequency at 250nWb/m. The Weber is the unit of magnetic flux, or in layman’s terms, magnetic strength. It is an important measurement for getting signals on and off of magnetic tape (whether digital or analog). One Weber is much too large a unit to be relevant with tape recorders, so the nanoweber (one billionth of a Weber) is a standard unit of measurement. The recorded level of tape is expressed in nanowebers per meter of tape. Especially in analog recording, the signal level to tape is a critical component in the performance of the tape. Too high a level, and you get distortion and lack of headroom, but with too low a level, your signal-to-noise is compromised. The proper recording level for tape depends a lot on the formulation of the tape and the electrical/magnetic characteristics of the recorder. Recorders are thus aligned using standard reference tapes containing tones at known levels rated in nanowebers per meter. Once the machine is calibrated to a reference, it becomes possible to optimize its levels for the particular formulation of tape desired through another alignment procedure. Recording to tape is just as much an artform as making the music itself.
SEASON 1 of #ThePianoLifestyle by VAN ILLER (TSIKI MAYNE) A series of #amapiano mixtapes by the Sound Technologist THAPELO KOTLHAI aka VAN ILLER aka TSIKI MAYNE! Download the zip here https://www.mediafire.com/file/gi0yn5r18oe7i5k/%2523ThePianoLifestyle_Season_1_Mixtapes_%2523Amapiano_%2523Bacardi_%2523HipHouse_%2523AfroTech.zip/file
My little brother Nick is a sound engineer and got us amazing tickets to Disney In Concert by the Reno Philharmonic and we had so much fun!
I cried pretty much the whole time (because live music does that to me and Disney music also does that to me) and they encouraged singing along and all the performers were PHENOMENAL! And the girls got complimented on their dresses every five seconds (although they wished they were wearing princess costumes, but that didn’t occur to me til I saw the other little girls dressed as princesses).
It was just really special and definitely a core memory and Nick showed Peanut and Lil how the lights and sounds work and everything in his cute little sound booth 🥺
Lil's favorite song was "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and Pea's was "Into the Unknown" (which I could've called, haha).