WEEK2- AA1- Session Plan

Click on the session plan above for a closer look.

I found the information on experimenting with microphone positioning for the best audio ' window' (there's probably tech-talk for that spot) intriuging. I suspect that the 'sweet spot' may not be the same for every situation (or ear) as it would depend on the desired results. Technically, 'desirable' is probably the loudest, fullest sounding position.

Great description of the recording process, eg: bed tracks, overdubs etc. The checklist of pre-production planning (eg: prior to recording session scheduling) was informative, but the role of the producer is a tutorial in itself and sparked my curiousity.

A producer adds (or not) their own style and may be a huge help or a hinderance ... and most stops in between. I guess something to remember is they're usually paying the bills (and/or playing some other role in the process)

Below is a quote from film maker Jon Pareles about 'star' style producer Max Martin and producers:

Jon Pareles: Max Martin knows what he's doing. He has studied Abba who in turn studied every pop model they could get their hands on from Phil Spector to The Beatles. Who in turn studied, you know, Little Richard and Irving Berlin and Hoagy Carmichael who in turn probably studied Stephen Foster who in turn studied, you know, whatever the farm heads on his neighborhood farm was singing. You know, there's always continuity here.

* Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song, (2007, March) In IMDB. Retrieved 12:20pm, March 11, from http://imdb.com/title/tt0375495/quotes

... to the feelings of Steve Albini:

"It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me. The band was paying money for the privilege of being in a recording studio, and normally when you pay for something, you get to say how it's done. So, I made up my mind when I started engineering professionally that I wasn't going to behave like that." (Young 2004).

Finally, Steve’s thoughts on the term 'the producer':

" ... he dislikes the term and prefers to be credited as recording engineer (if the record company insists on any credit at all; Albini is comfortable with receiving no credit). Contrary to common practice, Albini does not receive royalties for anything he records or mixes: he charges a flat daily fee when recording at his own facility, but uses an admittedly somewhat arbitrary sliding scale when recording elsewhere.

* Steve Albini's thoughts from: Steve Albini. (2007, March 10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:02, March 11, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Albini&oldid=114045245