All three CDs contain some more than excellent music. The new sister label to Peter Gabriel's Real World label, Womad Select, has released several CDs that contain material recorded by Blake using this method, called binaural recording: Dawn Raga, by the famous Indian electric mandolin player U Srinivas (1995) Made In Sardinia, by Sardinia's number one guitarist, Gesuino Deiana (1997) and Kaira Naata, by the Gambian kora player Pa Bobo Jobarteh and the Kaira Trio (1997). This is exactly what renowned American engineer and producer Tchad Blake has been doing in recent years, with some stunning results. Then spend a few more hours editing the lot in a hard disk editor, add PQ coding, transfer back to DAT, and send off to the CD factory. Record for a few hours, moving or turning your head when you want a different balance. Stick the Lavalier mics in your ears, connect them to your DAT recorder, and put your head in front of whatever it is that you want to capture. Try, for example, this bit of outlandish inventiveness: take some leads, two cheap Lavalier mics, a tiny portable DAT recorder, plus a multitude of batteries and DAT tapes. If you're working with live music you could do a lot worse than following the example of American engineer and producer Tchad Blake. Paul Tingen talks to a devotee of binaural recording who's more than just a dummy head.Īnyone out there who's exploring today's ever‑cheaper CD‑quality recording options should sit up and take note.
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This inventive American has graduated from aiding and abetting producer Mitchell Froom in his sonic escapades to full production duties on a variety of live and studio albums.
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