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Legendary Studio Mics You Can Still Buy New True Originals Timeless: Sam Smith sings into a Neumann U67. Classic equipment doesn’t have to be old and unreliable. Many famous studio microphones are still current products, and some have been in continuous production for over 50 years. Buy new and you get a mic in showroom condition, with a manufacturer’s warranty and no worries about whether it’s still performing to spec. These are products that have endured for a reason — and...

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide In The Decca Tradition Book Review Over the years, I must have read a small library’s worth of books on music recording techniques in general, with many concerning the specific approaches typically employed for classical music, in all its forms. However, this new 410‑page tome published by Routledge at the end of 2020 has established an impressive new high‑bar in the genre. Indeed, I forecast that it will quickly become ‘the’ standard r...

Spitfire Originals Cimbalom Originals Cimbalom features samples captured by renowned percussionist Greg Knowles, whose playing youll have heard on a host of movies, including How To Train Your Dragon, The Golden Compass and the Hunger Games series. For this new library, Knowles cimbalom — a type of hammered dulcimer — was captured at the legendary AIR Lyndhurst studio in London, with both close mics and a more distant Decca Tree array. It can be played in five preset modes: Performance...

Hugh Robjohns » Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:00 pm Watching this years Carols From Kings broadcast on BBC2. Unusual format, due to the Covid restrictions. No congregation at all, and the choir only comprises boy trebles. So to fill out the low end theyve bussed in the King Singers... And it actually works remarkably well. Difficult to see what the rig is from the TV images, but its an Andy Payne mix so Id guess at an ORTF pair slung above the King Singers, with a Decca Tree arrangement above the choirm...