penteosurround
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Working on some cuts for the Wrecking Crew Film - for a special screening in Hollywood next month.
http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/
Here's an example of a classic 1960's cut recorded by Larry Levine at Gold Star. It's VERY noisy (it always was), and I have left the noise in on these samples. It is really, really noisy.
This song pre-dates mixing desks with pan-pots, so there are only three placements:
The XPL is the pure left.
The XPC is the pure center.
The XPR is the pure right.
These were taken from the same stereo mix master you've heard all your life.
Now we can clean up each part separately, do some digital transient restoration, and it'll sound like it was recorded last year.
But it's kinda cool just listening to the separate parts.
The "leakage" is twofold: You are hearing microphone leakage of the drums into pretty much everything; they were set up just in the middle of the old Gold Star studio. Hal Blaine is everywhere.
You also will hear the echo of Whassisname's lead horn coming back from the famous Gold Star (Phil Spector) echo chamber in the XPL and XPR channels. That's actually a real microphone listening to a 12" speaker playing into a hard-surface little room that was behind the control room that had a marvelous long echo decay sound. It was heard on hundreds of 1960s hits. There's a great story about it here: http://www.goldstarrecordingstudios.com/news.htm
http://www.penteosurround.com/pub/demo/Taste Of Honey-XPC.mp3
http://www.penteosurround.com/pub/demo/Taste Of Honey-XPL.mp3
http://www.penteosurround.com/pub/demo/Taste Of Honey-XPR.mp3
http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/
Here's an example of a classic 1960's cut recorded by Larry Levine at Gold Star. It's VERY noisy (it always was), and I have left the noise in on these samples. It is really, really noisy.
This song pre-dates mixing desks with pan-pots, so there are only three placements:
The XPL is the pure left.
The XPC is the pure center.
The XPR is the pure right.
These were taken from the same stereo mix master you've heard all your life.
Now we can clean up each part separately, do some digital transient restoration, and it'll sound like it was recorded last year.
But it's kinda cool just listening to the separate parts.
The "leakage" is twofold: You are hearing microphone leakage of the drums into pretty much everything; they were set up just in the middle of the old Gold Star studio. Hal Blaine is everywhere.
You also will hear the echo of Whassisname's lead horn coming back from the famous Gold Star (Phil Spector) echo chamber in the XPL and XPR channels. That's actually a real microphone listening to a 12" speaker playing into a hard-surface little room that was behind the control room that had a marvelous long echo decay sound. It was heard on hundreds of 1960s hits. There's a great story about it here: http://www.goldstarrecordingstudios.com/news.htm
http://www.penteosurround.com/pub/demo/Taste Of Honey-XPC.mp3
http://www.penteosurround.com/pub/demo/Taste Of Honey-XPL.mp3
http://www.penteosurround.com/pub/demo/Taste Of Honey-XPR.mp3
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