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RECORDINGNEWS
Recording
The Great Apes
Sound Designer Craig Carter
has recently undertaken 15
weeks of filming in the jungles
of Africa, Indonesia, Sumatra, and
Borneo for The Last of the Great Apes,
a 3D film covering all six species of
great apes. Carter chose to use a DPA
Miloco Studios has unveiled its latest recording
studio, La Fabrique Residential Recording Studio.
The studio, in the Saint-Remy de Provence region of
southern France, is based in an early 19th century
mansion which provides luxury accommodation for
clients to stay in. The control room features a Neve
88R 72 channel console, and a Studer A800 MK2 twoinch
tape machine is available; otherwise, recording is
to Pro Tools HD. There are four live rooms, The Library,
The Mill, The Arcades and The Dark Room.
www.miloco.co.uk
The recording control room of Vienna Volksoper has been
equipped with a mc 2 56 mixing console from Lawo. In
the opera season, around 300 performances, with more
than 150 singers, 95 orchestra musicians and 100 dancers
forming the ensemble. The Lawo mc 2 56 with HD core and
one DALLIS frame for the control suite offers 32 faders and
96 DSP channels, and the router offers a capacity of 8000
x 8000 crosspoints.
www.lawo.de
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing
has launched an initiative to find solutions to the lack of
credit information in the digital domain. The Recording
Academy has launched Give Fans The Credit, to ensure
music creators are credited for work on diital releases.
The overall goal is to ensure that all music creators received
proper credit with a technical solution that will standardise
recording metadata.
www.grammy.com/credits
Producer and television music composer Dru
Masters has recently moved into a new studio at
the Amplifi complex near Kings Cross, London.
KMR Audio has supplied much of the recording equipment,
including an array of three Barefoot MM27 monitors, plus
a subwoofer, and a lunchbox rack housing Neve 1073 and
API 512s mic pre-amps. A Benchmark DAC fulfills the role
of what Masters calls ‘the most expensive headphone amp
ever’.
www.kmraudio.com
Country artist Billy Ray Cyrus has just released his latest
album, Change My Mind, produced and engineered by
Brandon Friesen. Friesen used the Mojave MA-300 Multi
Pattern Vacuum Tube condenser microphone, the MA-200
Vacuum Tube condenser microphone and the MA-101fet
condenser microphone on the recording.
www.mojaveaudio.com
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5100 mobile surround microphone
for surround ambience, while using
a DPA 4017B shotgun microphone
with a Rycote windshield on a
long boom to capture the sounds
he wanted without disturbing the
apes. “I chose the DPA 5100 surround
microphone for its sound
pressure capabilities and its
ease of use in the conditions
I was working in,” said Carter.
“Thanks to its compact size
and extreme portability,
it was ideally suited to
these very challenging
conditions. Also, it only has
one multi-core cable, which
Getting The Voice Right
Randy Faustino and Tim Hatayama
from Burbank, California-based
Creative Sound Solutions, have
recorded and mixed the music
for each of the auditions and final
interactive singing competitions
involved on The Voice, NBC
Universal’s weekly TV talent series.
The duo used an array of TC
Electronic plug-ins to streamline the
process.
“For each season of The Voice we
record between 100 and 150 artists
during the pre-Turnaround sessions,
using a 96-Track Avid Pro Tools rig
equipped with TC Electronic CL1B,
Non Lin 2, DVR2 and VSS3 dynamics
and reverb plug-ins,” explained
Faustino. “Tim and I have set up a
number of multi-channel templates
that we use to drop compression
and ambience settings on the vocals
and instrumental tracks.”
www.tcelectronic.com
was an important consideration
because I was mainly recording
and booming on my own.”
The shotgun microphone was very
responsive, Carter said, adding:
“It was easy to mount quickly and
had an excellent signal to noise
ration. Because it is very directional
it was easy to eliminate unwanted
sounds and was certainly my first
choice of microphone when there
was a lot of background noise.
It’s also very light,.”
The Last of the Great Apes is a
feature-length documentary that
will be released in cinemas and
supported by a six-part TV series.
“With this project I took a drama
approach to the audio recording
by trying to capture ‘edge of frame’
dialogue, and wherever possible,
taking a multi-track approach to FX/
atmosphere recording,” explained
Carter. “My main microphone was
the DPA 5100 but I also linked two
Sound Devices eight-track recorders
at times, which allowed me to
include other microphones, such as
the DPA 4017B, in the set-up as well.”
www.dpamicrophones.com
APRS Fellowship
Awards
The sixth annual APRS
Sound Fellowship Awards
Lunch is to be held at the
Roof Gardens, Kensington
on November 20. The
celebration, hosted by Sir
George and Lady Martin,
sees the recognition of six
new recipients of the APRS
Sound Fellowship. This year
the association is recognising
Pink Floyd member and
owner of Astoria studio
David Gilmour; Engineer
and Mixer Bruce Swedien;
The Who guitarist and
songwriter and founder of
HEAR, Pete Townshend;
film soundtrack producer
and Air Edel owner Maggie
Rodford; UK acoustic and studio designer Eddie Veale; and John Borwick,
audio journalist and founder of Surrey University’s Tonmeister course. Record
producer Joe Boyd will give the President’s Toast, while Alison Wenham, CEO
of AIM will give the keynote address.
www.aprs.co.uk
Experimenting With Midas
Belgian experimental music studio and sound
laboratory, Champ d’Action, has chosen a Midas PRO2C
as its main studio console. The Antwerp studio invested
in the PRO2C as an integral part of of its concept to
offer ‘a platform for contemporary music open to other
artistic disciplines such as contemporary video art,
theatre or dance.’ Champ d’Action’s Sound Engineer
Marc Dedecker, who is responsible for the technical
specification of the studio, tested several digital consoles
before settling on the Midas. “I chose the Midas because
of its superior sonic performance, which is absolutely
critical to my work at the studio,” said Dedecker.
“The surround feature of the PRO2C works really well
and the panning is superb.”
www.midasconsoles.com