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07/27/2025

most of our mixing occurs in our dedicated , but our larger Neve is equipped with flying faders automation
Particularly for certain music, mixing on the Neve does something nice. It lends a certain density that’s not for everything, but can be great when it works
On numerous occasions, we’ve heard that outside mixers have a hard time beating the sound of the rough mixes printed straight from the output of this console during tracking

07/14/2025

Our collection keeps getting bigger!
Not in the sense that we’re acquiring additional sets—rather we keep swapping smaller speakers for larger ones
We’re now up to three sets of SCM110s, including this newest set in Studio A (which replaced a pair of SCM45s)
The 110s in our mix and mastering rooms are flush-mounted in the walls, designed-into the Northward Acoustics control rooms
Our third, smaller Northward-designed room has a pair of flush-mounted SCM45s, and our B room now has 45s as well (this set replaced a pair of 25s awhile back)
With ATCs, the larger you go the better they seem to get! We love the consistency of having similar speakers in all five of our control rooms

07/08/2025

We love our and
A vintage original would be more of a conversation-piece, but we really enjoy the fact that this one sounds *consistently* great, is much lower-maintenance and much more consistent!

06/24/2025

A little tech day love for one of our vintage consoles!
These desks sound fantastic and were built well, but contain thousands of components and are nearly half a century old
Inevitably, semiconductors fail, plastics deteriorate, capacitors age, and contacts corrode
No matter how much maintenance you do, you’re never “done!” But it’s worth it

06/06/2025

a couple of near field monitors that have stood the test of time—approaching the half century mark of usability and relevance!

05/23/2025

The humble 74 Junior velocity ribbon microphone
This was a budget ribbon mic from RCA’s mid-20th-century heyday—it was very popular among amateur radio operators and smaller AM stations as an announcement mic, and sold in large numbers
As a result, they’re not too hard to find today—not quite as valuable as the flagship 44BX or 77D/DX (and not quite as hi-fi, either), but a very handy workhorse
it’s a great candidate for putting in the general vicinity of a drum kit and compressing heavily

05/18/2025

Did you ever notice that the logo consists of three illustrations of a cardioid mic pattern, overlapping to form a triquetra (“Celtic knot”) shape?
Similarly, Yamaha’s logo consists of three overlapping tuning forks (they even use this one on motorcycles!)

05/11/2025

The diode bridge compressor has a unique feature that only applies if you have two or more of them—you can link as many as you want for multichannel operation!
the small toggle switch in the lower right of the unit has three positions—“a”, “b”, or “ind”
this links the compressor to one of two buses, or sets it up to operate independently (unlinked)
we have four of these in each of our tracking rooms plus four more in our mix room, so we could theoretically link them quadraphonically (not that we’d ever need to!)
we’ve never tested the limits, but can’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to link all twelve (though the imagination strains for a use case… 7.1.4 bus compressor maybe?)

05/03/2025

These are all vacuum tube compressors, but one is not like the rest
The Teletronix LA-2A has vacuum tube amplifiers, but the gain reduction is done via an optical photocell (an electroluminescent panel is packaged with a photoresistor and shines in proportion to input signal)
the rest use variable-mu tubes (tubes whose amplification is variable in proportion to bias voltage)
all are great!

04/28/2025

The .berlin is still hard to beat, despite having been out of full production for 33 years
A limited-run reissue, built from NOS parts, came and went in a flash recently
We’ve got a few old KM84s and they’re still in very regular use around here—our stable of vintage and modern mics has gotten pretty sizable over the years!

04/24/2025

very fast analog compressor/limiter!
these vintage units are really characterful… they do something none of their “early FET compressor” peers do, exactly
a great color to have within our stable of the usual 1176s and API 525s
We suspect part of the character might lie within the large Triad input and output transformers, which certainly do have a sound

04/16/2025

.berlin have been making the most important part of the uninterrupted for many decades—the capsule
For this reissue, they had to reproduce some of the parts, and find a suitable replacement for the extinct vacuum tube
Despite their reputation, vacuum tubes are actually quite linear devices on their own—as long as operated within their normal parameters
Much of the “sound” associated with tubes is actually down to the transformers that are usually needed to transform their impedances, but we digress…
Suffice to say, the substitute tube was very intelligently-chosen and doesn’t actually make a whole lot of difference (or any difference, to our ears) to the sound of the reissue
If they didn’t sound like M49s, we wouldn’t have bought five of them. really did a fantastic job on these!

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+19292348534

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