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Mixing
Josephine Beaver's Prime Time
and tracking big bands

with Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt is mixing royalty. He has won over twenty Grammy
Awards. His list of album credits reads like the history of recorded
music: Rosemary Clooney, Henry Mancini, Duke Ellington, Neil
Young, Jefferson Airplane, Jackson Brown, Al Jarreau, Ray Charles,
Toto, Steely Dan, Diana Krall... How many people can say they've
been involved in sessions with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Frank
Sinatra and Paul McCartney?  
Al Schmitt is also down to earth, humble, accommodating, and
eager to share a wealth of information. The focus of this interview
is the sonic reshaping of a big band album of American standards
by Josephine Beavers, recorded at Hollywood's Capitol Studios
in the mid-1990s and released under the title, Yesterday Is Now
(1996). Last October, an expanded set from these sessions
was released as Prime Time, in stunning fidelity. Prime Time
effortlessly transports the listener back to the great big band
era of the 1940s and 1950s. Two significant factors here: Capitol
Studios, and Al Schmitt. Naturally, our discussion went off-topic
to other, equally fascinating topics, including Al's work on the
Al Schmitt Decades SDX drum library for Toontrack (reviewed
January 2020)-all these fun tangents made our pages, so enjoy!

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Once Over: IsoAcoustics ISO-PUCK 76
Once Over: Sennheiser Anniversary Edition HD 25 Headphones
Arturia: Keylab Essential 88
Solid Stage Logic: SiX Desktop Mixer
America: Demos and Sessions a Half Century Jeff Larson and Gerry Beckley
Reviewed and Revisited: Logic Pro X 10.5 (And Novation Launchpad X with Logic)
Genelec: The Ones 8351B
Plugin Outlet: Black Rooster Audio KH-Comp 1
Inside the Box with Joe Albano: Virtual Channel Strips
Novation: Launchkey 49 MK3
Plugin Outlet: NUGEN Producer Bundle
Daking Audio: Comp II Stereo VCA Compressor
Mixing Josephine Beaver’s Prime Time and tracking big bands with Al Schmitt
Plugin Outlet: UVI Drum Replacer
PreSonus: Quantum 2626
Inside the Studio with Mark Hornsby: The One Hour Mix
SPL: Mercury Mastering DA Converter
Demeter Amplification: RV-1D Real Spring Reverb
Readers’ Tracks
Reviewed and Revisited: Harrison Mixbus 32C Version 6
Fade Out: Mix Fu: Learn, Practice, Forget
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Recording - September 2020 - Inside the Studio with Mark Hornsby: The One Hour Mix
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