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Originally Posted by Moofie Full interview with Kevin Killen, P G engineer from MixOnLine... http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_kevin...ing/index.html
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"Do you remember how you recorded Peter's voice?
We used a tube 47.... (snip)..... But there was a funny sound to that 47. It had much more air than you would normally expect-very pleasing sounding, but not as much bottom as you'd expect. We had our maintenance guy, Neil Perry, take a look and it turned out that one of the cables had a little nip in it. It wasn't getting full contact on the shield, and when he reconnected it back up it sounded much fuller-but the presence that we loved was gone. So we rigged up a system where we plugged the output of the mic into the patchbay, and we took the shield off a regular patch cord and used a mult of the two things; we brought the mic up on two faders to duplicate that sound-the regular 47 and the dropped shield version of it-and we'd balance between them.... (snip).... |
I can confirm this (including the wiring trick) - as a number of years back I was in Peter's private studio up in the top of his RealWorld Studios just outside of Box in the UK. When I was there the 47 was setup right by his CP80 (is that the name of his fav keyboard? I think it is) and there were speakers setup that would blast right into where he would be sitting. I was told that he insisted on NOT wearing headphones... and he wanted the music to be right in his face, on speakers. They did the old "flip the phase" trick.....