FOREWORD

Soon after the author of this book and I met we both quickly realised that we shared the same passion and excitement for music and audio. Not the mad professor audio laboratory that is the mixing process, but the actual moment of audio creation, the recording process.

So how do we start in music recording? We have a drummer, sticks at the ready (silent!), guitarists have their first chord or note fretted, hand ready to strike strings, keyboard player fingers in chord shapes, ready to land on keys, vocalist, throat cleared thinking about the first note or perhaps a whole orchestra, silent, ready, watching for the conductor’s signal to start. In the control room, the engineer’s mind races through a list of all the potential problems encountered during set-up, have these all been addressed? Can the ‘go ahead’ be given to start? A mental note of LEDs and meter dials that need to be watched for overload or lack of signal is made. The technical set-up time is over. A new phase begins, one of hope for the performer’s music to flow perfectly. Fingers are crossed for them and the technology. This is going to be it! This is going to be the one!

Recording!

Julian ‘Jules’ Standen
Gearslutz.com Audio Forum
London, October 2012