Just checkin in, internet world!!! I’m here in the studio today doing voice-over sessions. These are always fun because you get to hear people do the voices that you hear on TV. Not sure what spots we are doing yet, but these sessions are always pretty fun and interesting. Hope everyone else out there is enjoying what is probably the most beautiful day of 2009.
Here is the Pay Pal link to purchase Thomas’ album!!!! Buy one, five, or however many your heart desires! The album is amazing, and it will make a present for the holidays for all jazz lovers alike. Enjoy!
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Storms are not fun. As much as we needed the rain here in Houston, the concomitant effects of the rain can be very taxing and undesirable. Due to unforeseen electrical issues caused by storm damage to the surrounding grid, our energy supply is experiencing intermittent glitches, causing us to need to reschedule sessions and contact electricians to ensure that our facility can run without risk of damage to equipment. And thus, we forge on. Yesterday, we had the privilege of entertaining one of the music industry’s top movers and shakers who gave us a little insight on the evolution of the the music publishing business. It was a fascinating meeting and very informative. The rest of this week is stocked with various sessions involving a variety of artists and continued preparation for Thomas Hultén’s album release.
Larry Murphy, staff engineer at Tierra Studios, begins his Mic’s With Murphy series with an overview of microphones. Watch the video and read more about mics below.
(This image is from the Wikipedia Blumlein entry)
The Blumlein pair recording technique is a type of stereo recording technique invented by Alan Blumlein designed to create recordings that replicate the spatial characteristics of the recorded signal.
A Blumlein pair consists of two matched microphones set to the bi-directional, or figure 8, pickup pattern and positioned 90° from each other. This configuration should allow the transducers of the microphones to occupy the same physical space, or at least as close to the same space as possible. The mics are then positioned so that the audio signal is in a line bisecting the angle between the two microphones. The pickup patterns of the pair, combined with their positioning, delivers a high degree of stereo separation in the source signal as well as the room ambiance.
Properly used, the Blumlein pair can produce a “true” stereo image.
The traditional microphone for Blumlein Pair recording is the ribbon microphone, although some microphones are purpose-built for the type of coincident arrangements that are required for the Blumlein pair.
Unlike most ribbon mics designed today with an offset ribbon, the Cascade FAT HEAD houses a hand-tuned ribbon element that incorporates the legendary symmetrical ribbon design. This design offers a true figure 8 pattern. The corrugated aluminum membrane itself is positioned in the center from front to back, thus producing a balanced audio input signal to both sides of the ribbon assembly. This design is very useful when executing a mid-side or Blumlein recording set-up and also great for live stage use. The FAT HEAD warm full-bodied signature and increased sensitivity is what you would expect and demand from a professional ribbon microphone and the FAT HEAD delivers. The FAT HEAD is suited for guitar cabinets, drum over-heads, vocal, piano, horns, strings and much more.
