Working with Santa Clara [Victoria, BC] and Jesse David Weeks [Toronto] on new tracks this week. Plugged in a few modern and a few retro instruments for inspiration. How many keyboards is enough? One more.
Joshua Colucci
I’m starting a classical recording with 19 year old Joshua Colucci, an exceptional Toronto violinist. Co-producer Ray Dillard and I are excited to dig into rehearsals and sessions this week. Listen to a rehearsal clip on the Detailer page.
Here’s a link to the Tascam website interview with Ocean Way’s Allen Sides. Of interest to me is the noticeable difference between adding gain inside or outside the workstation. For the last two years, I’ve been using the Audities R47 preamps as line level amps across the mix bus. These are the hand-built reproductions of the REDD 47 preamps from Abbey Road Studios during the Beatles era. They are [arguably] the finest ever made, and it is stunning what they do [again, thank you, David Kean, for bringing these units into my professional life!]. The stereo spectrum becomes clearer, the soundstage becomes deeper and the bottom end, noticeably tighter. All this from turning the music up outside the box. No,
