Geoff Emerick Interview

I hope a technical topic on music is allowed here [img]graemlins/tongue1.gif[/img]

Here is a link to a 3 page rather rechnical interview with Geoff Emerick.

http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording...klee/geoff.php

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Wow, that was a great read thanks for the link, I like what Geoff had to say about nowadays recording technigues.

"Of course, now, it’s endless, you can do anything. But often, all that doesn’t mean anything. If you just press a button and it’s there, you haven’t really created anything, have you? Going back to the artistic side of it, it’s the difference between painting by numbers or being a Rembrandt and painting a picture. Anyone can apply this technology to recorded music. But there’s that certain something that you can’t put your finger on, something that you can actually give to that piece of recording that the equipment can’t. It’s something that’s in your heart, that’s in you, that doesn’t come from any equipment whatever. It comes from what you hear."

Ain't this the truth.
Norman Smith and Geoff were so much a part of The Beatles recording. You can discuss wheter the records would sound the same with different engineers, but first Norman and then Geoff formed a great team with the Beatles, another engineer might have said no to the new ideas the Beatles wanted to try out.

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Well, with a sound engineer that actually says this:

"The way I approach it is I use what I’m given by the studio like a palette of paints. It’s very hard to explain, but I hear visually. I hear certain sounds in different colors. It’s really an art form to me. If you start asking me technical stuff, I’m not really that interested."

makes easier to understand how did The Beatles accomplish all their radically 'different' ideas and adapt them carefully to the technology available. Usually engineers (of all kinds [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ) are there to be the bridges between the ideas and the concrete parts of them. If they have an artistic side, and can understand the creator/artist properly, then it's all better.

Thanks for the link. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

I read this somewhere else the other day and thought it was really interesting. I'm trying to learn more about the technical AND the artistic parts of the recording process these days, so this was right up my alley. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Sounds like Geoff was up for new and radical ideas, so I'm glad he was part of the team.