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Originally Posted by Fletcher  Well golly there Nem... I didn't book the session, I was booked onto the session.
Time ran out where we had been working and somebody, somewhere made arrangements to move the session to the room with the evil "V" series desk. I brought up a monitor mix on one of the songs and thought something was terribly, terribly wrong... the size of the recording shrunk like 3 sizes and we hadn't even run it through the dryer yet... fortunately, the producer on the gig [whose job it was to actually steer the boat] agreed with me and we got the hell out of there before irrepable damage was done to the music [not that it much mattered, the record went lead even with the change of studio].
You'd have to ask George what he did... all I know is the quote, and it's been a favorite since I saw it [I do recall seeing it in print somewhere, but I have no idea where that might have been]. |
Fletcher, what rig (desk) were you guys comming from before reaching the V3?
You know... sometimes if you develop something for a considerable time (you can do a lot in three weeks) with a certain setup and then move to a different one, chances are it wont sound ok until you make "some" adjustments, even if the second one is supposedly better...
I'm not a big SSL fan either, just personal taste I suppose... and I never worked on any V3, but there used to be one in a studio near by, and the mixes that came from it did sound pretty decent to me.
I'm actually surprised Jim said it sounds dark cause I think it's the opposite...
As someone said above, there are sweeter sounding desks, but I think you can certainly make a great recording on a V3.
