While reading an article in Mix Magazine today ("Ben Harper & The Blind
Boys of Alabama By David John Farinella Sep 1, 2004") @ Mixmag.com, I
read the following:

"The vocal chain for Harper and the Blind Boys started with Neumann
U47s running through either a Fairchild 670 compressor or an LA-2A into
the Neve console's mic pre's."

Am I missing something here? I don't think I've ever heard of a chain
that had the compressor before the Mic Pre. Is this even possible?
Wouldn't there be a mismatch between levels?

Thanks,

Mark

wrote:

Am I missing something here? I don't think I've ever heard of a chain
that had the compressor before the Mic Pre. Is this even possible?
Wouldn't there be a mismatch between levels?

That should just tell you to be VERY skeptical about what you read in
the magazines. Much of the technical information becomes incorrect after
it has gone through a few different people. Some of it deliberately so.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Scott Dorsey wrote:
That should just tell you to be VERY skeptical about what you read in
the magazines. Much of the technical information becomes incorrect after
it has gone through a few different people. Some of it deliberately so.
--scott

There seems to be more and more of these "obvious errors" being printed.
It makes me wonder sometimes if the writer has any idea what he/she
is really writing about, or are they just reporting?

--
Eric

www.Raw-Tracks.com

In article . com writes:

While reading an article in Mix Magazine today ("Ben Harper & The Blind
Boys of Alabama By David John Farinella Sep 1, 2004") @ Mixmag.com, I
read the following:

"The vocal chain for Harper and the Blind Boys started with Neumann
U47s running through either a Fairchild 670 compressor or an LA-2A into
the Neve console's mic pre's."

Well, interviews aren't always technically accurate. I'm sure it was
the other way around, but the person making the statement obviously
thought that the compressor was more important than the preaamp (and
he may have been right."

Many times I've read magazine articles (even equipment reviews) where
I've wanted to be the editor and go back to the writer and ask "Did
you really mean that?" (or in the case of an interview "Did he really
say that? And did you think that it was correct?")

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Many times I've read magazine articles (even equipment reviews)
where I've wanted to be the editor and go back to the writer and
ask "Did you really mean that?" (or in the case of an interview
"Did he really say that? And did you think that it was correct?").

About 25 years ago I had a pleasant conversation with the then-editor of a
recording magazine, who admitted that he had little knowledge of the technical
side of recording. (No, I don't remember his name or the magazine, and if I did,
I wouldn't reveal them.)

EricK wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
That should just tell you to be VERY skeptical about what you read in
the magazines. Much of the technical information becomes incorrect after
it has gone through a few different people. Some of it deliberately so.

There seems to be more and more of these "obvious errors" being printed.
It makes me wonder sometimes if the writer has any idea what he/she
is really writing about, or are they just reporting?

Of course not. Most of them are just reporting what they are told by the
producer who is reporting what he was told by the engineer twenty years ago.
Many of them don't understand the technology well enough to know more than
just the buzzwords. Some of them do, but they are in the minority.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article writes:

About 25 years ago I had a pleasant conversation with the then-editor of a
recording magazine, who admitted that he had little knowledge of the technical
side of recording. (No, I don't remember his name or the magazine

This is generally true, particularly nowadays. But it's nice to have
someone with some technical knowledge either writing the articles or
reading them over before publication. I once offered to do that for
Pro Audio Review (which is right down the road from me) but the editor
mentioned a name I recognized who should be competent about those
things and was told "he's supposed to do that."

Things slip by pretty easily though, particularly when you're familiar
enough with the technology so that you read what you expect to read,
not what's written. The problem is tha the articles are intended to be
read by people who don't (yet) have the technical background, so
they can't read between the lines.


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I'm really Mike Rivers )
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