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On 7 Oct 2004 19:59:29 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
pete wrote:
So in other words, if all other things are exactly the same (the mics,
the room, the performance, the stylistic choices, and so on....) it
would really make no difference whether you used vintage API 312s, or
Great River ME-1NVs or A Designs MP-1s, etc. The final product would
sound the same, right?
Not the same, but not all that different.
Compare Paul McCartney with Frank Sinatra. Sinatra worked for a long
time and lived through at least two total revolutions in audio production
and technique. But listen to his early recordings and the stuff he did
late in life... and in spite of sixty-year difference in technology, they
sound a lot more like one another than McCartney in 1972 did from
McCartney in 1976.
--scott
Hmmmm, I found this on the Abbey Road Studios website:
"The technical advances were also coming thick and fast and in 1976 a
change occurred in Studio 3 that, while being a definite necessity,
signalled the end of an era. The desk in Studio 3 was replaced by a 36
channel Neve console which meant that for the first time a non-EMI
console was installed in Abbey Road. "
So McCartney recorded Speed Of Sound at Abbey Road in 1976, and I
really think that album *sounds* different than the ones before it,
(not just style-wise to me, but the overall sound) like Ram, which was
recorded at A&R studios in NY, and according to that other article,
they had an Altec console with big fat vacuum tubes...
And so now I'm thinking that I prefer that big fat vacuum tube sound
over what seems to me the much "cleaner" sound of the Neve...
Unless, as you're saying, the preamp is not really the factor that
makes the difference.
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