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Did you go through a console for tracking or just go straight from your outboard pre's/compressors to your Studer? I guess you used the output attenuators on your pre's and/or output controls on your compressors if you tracked without a console right?
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There is an old Neve, I believe 8058?, in the Clubhouse and we used those pres (which I think were modded by Rupert Neve in the 70's) along with Chandler TGs and LTDs with assorted comps...distressors, SSL, ADLtube, Daking....yes we went directly from the pres into compressors into the Studer and monitored through PTHD into the NEVE console.
That way you're set up to load in your takes right from the repro head. A little time consuming but very smooth. We did attenuate from the comps and hit the tape pretty hard. The music is not heavy rock. but a hybrid of pop, jazz, rock...Wilco-ish but heavily influenced by Tom Waits with a little Kurt Weill thrown in. The dark-ish sound of the tape running at 15 with all those Neve-ish pres really imparts an old/new vibe.