We would have to make the complete sound stage right there by carefully moving each instrument closer or further away as well as left and right in relationship to the microphone.Ĭarmen was given a headphone so she could hear exactly what the mic was hearing. Now with only one mic the challenge lay elsewhere. Frans de Rond is a true genius in that field and his expertise is one of the secrets to our well defined sound stage. The bad thing when the recording is done in one room is phase. Maybe, the most time consuming aspect of our way of recording is getting the phase between the mics right. The good is that you can make an instrument louder or softer as you please. Multi track recording has advantages and disadvantages. So as not to waste any precious studio time, we grabbed a bunch of songs that have been in our live repertoire for years and went back in. The band has just spend 3 days recording an album and we were rather pleased with the result. “No, I am talking about the one take with the Josephson C700S there is something very special about it, we need to really test that mic.
“Did you already make a premix of the session”, I asked. Next day Frans called me up and said “I can’t stop listening”. The band had to go and play a gig in the evening and Frans had a lot on his mind that day, so nobody was really in the mood for testing a new microphone but Carmen said: Come on, lets just make a quick take of something simple “Let’s play ‘How Long’!”. So we all gathered around the mic, made the take, packed up and rushed off to the gig of the evening. We had just recorded the last song of the session when the Josephson C700S arrived. Having booked the studio and the musicians, we decided to go ahead and record the album the way we mostly do a stereo pair and spot mic’s on the individual instruments. We had hoped to be able to try it out on a Carmen Gomes’ recording session, but there was an unforeseen problem with the delivery, the mic would not be on time. So we thought that if one mic would be able to do the impossible, it would be the Josephson C700S stereo microphone. They are the secret to our critically acclaimed double bass sound. At least we have not yet heard a one microphone recording of a whole band, that we found completely satisfying.Īt Sound Liaison, we are big fans of Josephson microphones. We have one pair of ears, so why not take a stereo microphone, place it in front of the band and press record? Simple …but somehow it does not work like that. The ideal recording would be one that sounds as if the band is right there in front you. One Hall, One Band, One Microphone, One Take, One Source One Microphone Recording from Sound Liaison recording the track ‘How Long’ (from the album Don’t You Cry) in the studio!
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