Soundkeeper Recordings will be a guest of Linkwitz Audio at this year's AXPONA event, where Barry will talk about minimal microphone recording. One thing he finds interesting about his favorite-sounding recordings is that every engineer does it differently from every other engineer. He'll talk about how he arrived at his particular approach and play some samples that demonstrate the results. This will occur on Saturday, April 12 at 10am in the Linkwitz suite (14th floor, #1421).
If you're there, please say hello.
Speaking of Linkwitz, several months ago Dr. Frank Brenner organized a Zoom meeting where the participants were recording engineers who use minimal mic'ing techniques. After the participants shared their different ideas about capturing sound, Dr. Brenner introduced the idea of holding a minimal mic'ing contest for aspiring recording engineers.
We're honored to say Barry will be announcing the winner of the contest at that Saturday morning talk in the Linkwitz suite.
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The sonic story in two sentences:
In our experience, once the signals are leaving the microphones the recording's ultimate quality ceiling has already been determined.
Everything after the microphones*merely determines how much of what was captured the listener gets to hear.
* mic cables, AC mains power, AC mains cables, mic preamps, recording format, recording device, mix (if any), mastering, playback format, playback device, interconnecting cables, amplification, speaker cables, speakers, speaker positioning, vibration isolation, room acoustics, etc.
