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Originally posted by cymatics
Back to the topic but not really...
I just saw that you worked on the Plasmatics "Coup D'Etat" record. Any anecdotes about your session with those folks?
- jon |
Oh boy, that was a looong time ago. I was just starting out as an engineer. The one thing I DO remember: Wendy was singing in the control room (very small) with a SM58 and the control room monitors were cranked to 12 but all I could hear was her voice in my left ear, totally overpowering the speakers. She was very nice and the whole session was a lot of fun. Dieter Dierks (producer and studio owner) had just bought a mobile truck filled with Telefunken V 72/76 preamps, at least 50 of them. If i had known then what i know now, I would have a whole shitload of Telefunken pres and old Neuman/Telefunken tube mics. The contents of the truck got sold off very cheap at the time.
The console was a MCI 636, the machine a Telefunken 32track (thirty two) 2", no Dolby. Never seen those anywhere else in the world. Control room monitors were ElectroVoice something "five" and the mix went to a 1/4" Studer 2 track. Sorry, don't remember any more details of the recording set up except that everything was very loud.
Jules, no tape to peel off
