This week was our first studio visit. We headed down to Mixmasters in Hawthorndene and after actually finding the place we made our way inside. Being inside an acual up and running studio was interesting for many reasons, but I suppose the best part was getting another professionals opinion on some of the different areas of recoding and mixing today.
Seeing all the old equipment and hearing some of it in action was particularly impressive, and it was good to see a set up the was using a whole heap of outboard equipment and how they used the patch bay to get between them all. I found Mick’s explanation of the difference between recording to tape and digital recording very fitting. He explained that he thought the on tape the instruments melded together better, which is something I could understand the concept of.
The main recording room was very interesting and seeing all the old ribbon mics was cool. The room was specially constructed and the walls filled with carpet, but it was interesting to hear the room was not constructed with any specific acoustic design in mind but rather just an idea was what might work. I suppose maybe a little more interesting to find out that it did.
It was good to hear some more of peoples work and great to get some feedback on it, however I missed out. This week I will hopefully remember to burn my work to a cd instead of just bring my hard drive. The desk was just downright impressive and I hope to one day be working with something like that.
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