Recording - September 2013 - 4
PUBLISHER: Thomas Hawley
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Brent Heintz
EDITORIAL
EDITOR: Mike Metlay
SENIOR EDITOR: Lorenz Rychner
EDITOR AT LARGE: Beto Hale
MÚSICO PRO EDITOR: Fernando Curiel
Problems solved
You Too on YouTube?
Hello and welcome! This month, we’re taking
a look at ways you can improve your studio and
your music creation process, and I’m pleased to
welcome several new writers and one returned
veteran to our pages to help you solve your
gnarliest problems.
From Los Angeles, recording artist, engineer,
studio tech, blogger, and able teacher Eleanor
Goldfield joins us for a hands-on lesson on repairing your own mic and instrument cables. There’s
something very empowering about looking at a
piece of broken gear, even something as simple
as a cable, and saying, “I can fix that myself!”
Also from California comes studio designer
Bruce Black, who offers up a set of handy hints
on isolating your studio from the outside world to
trap noise. Bruce explains how insidious noise
leakage can be... and goes on to provide practical solutions on how to stop it cold.
From here in Colorado, we’re pleased to welcome engineer/producer John McVey of Coupe
Studios in Boulder, whose common sense problem-solving skills are laid out in a set of tricks for
saving troublesome sessions. They’re aimed primarily at the neophyte engineer who may be
dealing with artist arguments, a less-than-stellar
room, or noisy tracks for the very first time... but
they can help experienced studio hounds as well.
From Arizona, we hear from Jess Repanshek
about a cool little studio he discovered in the
Phoenix area, where a determined and patient
recording musician turned a backyard shed into
a very good-sounding and creatively inspiring
environment.
And returning to the Recording fold after several years away, Chicago-based furniture designer (and recording guitarist) Matt Seiler lays out a
simple way to help sound-isolate and bass-control
a room without adding a single piece of furniture.
The secret is in the walls themselves!
And speaking of walls... From his beginnings
working with Stevie Wonder in the 1970s to his
current gig at JBL, Peter Chaikin has seen years of
evolution and revolution in the world of monitor
design and how speakers interact with rooms,
and he shares what he knows in a fun and
detailed interview.
There’s a lot here to take in, and a lot of benefit to be had. I’m sure that even the most experienced recordists will find something new and useful in our pages this month, and turn it around to
make better recordings.
Enjoy the issue!
Are you, too, on YouTube? If so, did you
mean to be? Opinions are divided about the
merit of video postings where you gave no permission, neither for the recording nor for the
posting. If someone posted a video of you and
your band, from a night that wasn’t your best,
recorded shakily with a little gizmo in bad lighting, with crappy sound from a tiny built-in mic—
how would you feel?
Perhaps a fan thought s/he’d be doing your
band a favor? Or it was done by someone who
simply likes to show off their “work” to their
friends and the world at large? No matter, fact
is—you had no say in it.
Maybe you’d shrug it off, thinking that any
publicity is better than none? Or you’d get on
YouTube’s case, insisting that the video be taken
down? Decisions decisions...
Aside from questions of courtesy (“you should
have asked”), there is the wrinkle of rights and
such. You and your band may not mind being
on YouTube, but the material you are seen and
heard to be performing may be protected.
YouTube’s website-posting rules state clearly (see
http://youtube.com/yt/copyright/faq.html): “If
you plan to include copyright-protected material
in your video, you will need to seek permission
to do so first.”
This question came to a head last month at a
classical piano recital in Essen, Germany, when
Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman looked up
while playing and saw an audience member in
a balcony pointing a mobile phone at him. The
pianist, while still playing, called out “Would
you please stop that?” Then, having lost his concentration, he stopped playing, stormed out,
came back, and spoke to the audience about
“having lost many recording projects and contracts because music managers had told him:
‘We’re sorry, that has already been on
YouTube.’ He added, “The destruction of music
because of YouTube is enormous.”
The spokesperson for the festival was quoted
in newspapers (for example in the Guardian at
http://tinyurl.com/l6h26hr) as saying, “It’s
hard to catch culprits, because smart phones
are so small they can quickly disappear back
into bags and it’s hard to pick people out in the
dark. Clearly some people think buying a concert ticket entitles them to the film rights as well.”
Something to keep in mind as we go about
our—
Happy Recording.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Recording - September 2013
Recording - September 2013
Fade In
Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
The History And Mystery Of Monitoring: A Chat With JBL’s Peter Chaikin
Better Sounds From Tight Spots
Do It Yourself: Fix Your Cables—Save Your Money!
Emotiva Pro Stealth 8 Monitors
MOTU Track16
Ashman Acoustics SOM50 Microphone
Sontronics Sonora 2
Stop Sound Leakage!
Drawmer MC2.1 Monitor Controller
Do It Yourself: Build Acoustic Treatment Right Into Your Walls!
From Shed To Studio
Sneak Previews: Apple Logic Pro X and Avid Pro Tools 11
Readers’ Tapes
Plug-In Outlet: FXpansion Bloom
Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 21: Equalization—Part 2
Advertiser Index
Fade Out
Recording - September 2013 - Intro
Recording - September 2013 - Recording - September 2013
Recording - September 2013 - Cover2
Recording - September 2013 - 1
Recording - September 2013 - 2
Recording - September 2013 - 3
Recording - September 2013 - Fade In
Recording - September 2013 - 5
Recording - September 2013 - Contents
Recording - September 2013 - 7
Recording - September 2013 - Talkback
Recording - September 2013 - 9
Recording - September 2013 - Fast Forward
Recording - September 2013 - 11
Recording - September 2013 - 12
Recording - September 2013 - 13
Recording - September 2013 - The History And Mystery Of Monitoring: A Chat With JBL’s Peter Chaikin
Recording - September 2013 - 15
Recording - September 2013 - 16
Recording - September 2013 - 17
Recording - September 2013 - 18
Recording - September 2013 - 19
Recording - September 2013 - 20
Recording - September 2013 - 21
Recording - September 2013 - Better Sounds From Tight Spots
Recording - September 2013 - 23
Recording - September 2013 - 24
Recording - September 2013 - 25
Recording - September 2013 - Do It Yourself: Fix Your Cables—Save Your Money!
Recording - September 2013 - 27
Recording - September 2013 - 28
Recording - September 2013 - 29
Recording - September 2013 - Emotiva Pro Stealth 8 Monitors
Recording - September 2013 - 31
Recording - September 2013 - 32
Recording - September 2013 - 33
Recording - September 2013 - MOTU Track16
Recording - September 2013 - 35
Recording - September 2013 - Ashman Acoustics SOM50 Microphone
Recording - September 2013 - 37
Recording - September 2013 - Sontronics Sonora 2
Recording - September 2013 - 39
Recording - September 2013 - Stop Sound Leakage!
Recording - September 2013 - 41
Recording - September 2013 - 42
Recording - September 2013 - 43
Recording - September 2013 - 44
Recording - September 2013 - 45
Recording - September 2013 - Drawmer MC2.1 Monitor Controller
Recording - September 2013 - 47
Recording - September 2013 - Do It Yourself: Build Acoustic Treatment Right Into Your Walls!
Recording - September 2013 - 49
Recording - September 2013 - From Shed To Studio
Recording - September 2013 - 51
Recording - September 2013 - Sneak Previews: Apple Logic Pro X and Avid Pro Tools 11
Recording - September 2013 - 53
Recording - September 2013 - Readers’ Tapes
Recording - September 2013 - 55
Recording - September 2013 - 56
Recording - September 2013 - 57
Recording - September 2013 - 58
Recording - September 2013 - 59
Recording - September 2013 - Plug-In Outlet: FXpansion Bloom
Recording - September 2013 - 61
Recording - September 2013 - Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 21: Equalization—Part 2
Recording - September 2013 - 63
Recording - September 2013 - 64
Recording - September 2013 - Advertiser Index
Recording - September 2013 - 66
Recording - September 2013 - 67
Recording - September 2013 - 68
Recording - September 2013 - 69
Recording - September 2013 - 70
Recording - September 2013 - 71
Recording - September 2013 - Cover3
Recording - September 2013 - Cover4
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