The Barry Diament Story.
Sept 29, 2013 21:45:03 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2013 21:45:03 GMT
Most of us will have in our possession recordings made or engineered by the legendary Barry Diament.
I hope that many of our readers will be interested to read in Barry's blog, how he started out and in the record business, his career with Atlantic Records, and how he has now become the purist Recording Engineer with his own high resolution 24/192 Soundkeeper recordings, that involve no mixing, NO compression or limiting, and just 2 very wideband stereo microphones.
Some of Barry's recordings have genuine musical content to as high as 57kHz !!!
I received the attached from Barry this morning. Barry is a good online friend of mine, and a really nice guy.
Alex
News of "The Soundkeeper" Blog
The month of September brought us the arrival of Autumn and new entries in The Soundkeeper blog. soundkeeperrecordings.wordpress.com/
The most recent items posted recall my entry into the record business.
Starting with The Lure of the Studio, I recount my first experiences in a control room and studio environment, working with multitrack tape machines, examining what at first appeared to be the space shuttle complexity of a mixing console, and my having first experiences of the nearly indescribable feeling of sitting in a darkened control room watching close to a hundred meters dancing to the music.
The entry Adventures in Sound: Wait a Minute!, chronicles my increasing familiarity with standard studio practices from recording of the basic tracks, to overdubs, mixdown to stereo, editing and finally to mastering. Adding to the magic made by the meters dancing in the control room, I felt the exhilaration of watching a fresh groove being cut into a lacquer disk during a mastering session for vinyl release. Here too, I note my first recognition of and ensuing consternation at the fact that what we heard in the control room did not sound like what I heard in the studio.
Serendipity describes preparation for an important recording session, with a group of top notch string players from New York City. It describes in a bit more detail, some of the behind the scenes tasks to be accomplished before a recording session gets underway. It also marks a fortunate day when an assistant engineer is promoted and opportunities come to the fore.
Most recently, Why doesn’t it sound (in here) like it sounds out there? marks an early recognition that there is more than one audio world. It is where I took my first steps in learning to understand why the recordings we made did not (contrary to my early expectations) sound like what I heard out in the studio with the musicians.
Coming up in October, I’ll talk about moving to a “big time” studio and some major changes in the technology used to make records. I hope you’ll find it of interest.
When visiting the blog, please note the “Follow” button on the sidebar on the right side of The Soundkeeper blog home page. If you enter your email address and click the “Follow” button (or for those logged onto Wordpress, simply click the button), you’ll receive an email notification whenever a new post is added to the blog.
Also, please tell any friends (real friends and cyber friends on audio fora) who might be interested about the blog.
On behalf of Soundkeeper Recordings and all of our artists, we thank you for your continued support and interest.
Until next time,
Happy Listening!
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com
I hope that many of our readers will be interested to read in Barry's blog, how he started out and in the record business, his career with Atlantic Records, and how he has now become the purist Recording Engineer with his own high resolution 24/192 Soundkeeper recordings, that involve no mixing, NO compression or limiting, and just 2 very wideband stereo microphones.
Some of Barry's recordings have genuine musical content to as high as 57kHz !!!
I received the attached from Barry this morning. Barry is a good online friend of mine, and a really nice guy.
Alex
News of "The Soundkeeper" Blog
The month of September brought us the arrival of Autumn and new entries in The Soundkeeper blog. soundkeeperrecordings.wordpress.com/
The most recent items posted recall my entry into the record business.
Starting with The Lure of the Studio, I recount my first experiences in a control room and studio environment, working with multitrack tape machines, examining what at first appeared to be the space shuttle complexity of a mixing console, and my having first experiences of the nearly indescribable feeling of sitting in a darkened control room watching close to a hundred meters dancing to the music.
The entry Adventures in Sound: Wait a Minute!, chronicles my increasing familiarity with standard studio practices from recording of the basic tracks, to overdubs, mixdown to stereo, editing and finally to mastering. Adding to the magic made by the meters dancing in the control room, I felt the exhilaration of watching a fresh groove being cut into a lacquer disk during a mastering session for vinyl release. Here too, I note my first recognition of and ensuing consternation at the fact that what we heard in the control room did not sound like what I heard in the studio.
Serendipity describes preparation for an important recording session, with a group of top notch string players from New York City. It describes in a bit more detail, some of the behind the scenes tasks to be accomplished before a recording session gets underway. It also marks a fortunate day when an assistant engineer is promoted and opportunities come to the fore.
Most recently, Why doesn’t it sound (in here) like it sounds out there? marks an early recognition that there is more than one audio world. It is where I took my first steps in learning to understand why the recordings we made did not (contrary to my early expectations) sound like what I heard out in the studio with the musicians.
Coming up in October, I’ll talk about moving to a “big time” studio and some major changes in the technology used to make records. I hope you’ll find it of interest.
When visiting the blog, please note the “Follow” button on the sidebar on the right side of The Soundkeeper blog home page. If you enter your email address and click the “Follow” button (or for those logged onto Wordpress, simply click the button), you’ll receive an email notification whenever a new post is added to the blog.
Also, please tell any friends (real friends and cyber friends on audio fora) who might be interested about the blog.
On behalf of Soundkeeper Recordings and all of our artists, we thank you for your continued support and interest.
Until next time,
Happy Listening!
Barry
www.soundkeeperrecordings.com